Moving My Giant Tropical Houseplants to The Greenhouse For Winter

Oh, I didn't know you were going to be there too, pumpkin. There's a little burst of unexpected cuteness or with wobbly camera. Hey, what's up, garden friends? Jeff, here's a video. Hope you're doing well. I'm great. Kind of late to be starting a video, but got to do what we got to do. There's Don't do 3D puzzles. You see this? I'm sorry. I tried to fight off the add. Couldn't do it. All right, moving on. The time has come. All the big beautiful palm trees have to go off to their winter rest in the greenhouse. I can't believe it's time to send them away already. But uh well actually it is a little bit earlier than usual about 3 weeks earlier than normal. That's because I just have a lot going on at the end of the month and I don't want to have to deal with all this at that time. So I scheduled them to come about 3 weeks early. What this means for this video is well just got a lot of stuff to do. Is that vague enough for you? Sorry. I need to get everything pulled out for the most part and uh make some final decisions too as far as you know whether I'm going to send these guys. I don't think I'm going to. My gut is telling me just don't send them back. So, I probably won't. I'm kind of over these palm trees. I'm not going to get rid of them. throw them in the house during the winter time probably. Uh but I don't want to pay to store them. It's not necessary. They'll fit in the house just fine. I have two edundas down here that are in these big blue Miami planters. Need to get those pulled out. That might wait until tomorrow. Uh for right now, even though it's getting I didn't realize it was going to be this dark so soon. It's not that late, but you know. Okay. It's that time of year. Can see that. I also need to do some watering, don't I? A lot of watering. It has been unseasonably warm. What happened here? What's wrong with you? Did you fall over? I don't know what could have even gotten in there to knock this over. It's fine. We'll give them a drink. They'll be okay. Uh yeah, unseasonably warm. Oh my gosh, you guys. I skipped one day of watering. I was doing things. Didn't have a chance to get to it. Such babies. Gave him a big drink yesterday. I um I probably should have put these basil into larger containers, but you know, here we are. I didn't feel like spending a lot of money on a whole bunch of new containers for the basil, and I probably should just gone up to like an 8 in pot for those. Uh yeah, I think it was 90 today, and today is October 1st. It's ridiculous. I am actually ready for the cool weather. I have been for quite a while and it's not going to be humid than when it's hot. I have to water non-stop and I'm over it. I don't want to do it anymore. Been there, done that enough this year. I'm ready to take a break from all that. Next year will be better. Be able to get the uh drip irrigation set up more properly. I didn't get it run back here. If I had the drip run back there, it just would have made such a tremendous difference. Get that done next year. That will help an awful lot. There we go. So pretty. That was the art and soul catch a wave. Are you really dry? It's a little moist. Still going to water it. Oh, look at the little baby, which has actually done a really good amount of growing since it got put up. This is the Aztec King, right? Just a little baby one. But yep, Aztec King. big big mongave. I don't know if I called those agave or mongave. Do you know what I mean? These I'm done with for the year. They don't need to be out here anymore. And I'll give it a drink just because it's right there. But uh it doesn't need to be out here. This is extra pottery. Going to need to find something better to do with that. You Oh man, this thing needs to be cleaned up. I It's thirstyish, but I also need to just come and pull out a bunch of the old foliage that's in there. Yeah. Yeah, that could use a cleanup, but still in good shape. Lots of good new growth on this. Wonder if I should pull the rocks out of the bottom of that when I take it inside for the winter time. I don't think that'd be a bad idea. Look at all the soil over here. Got a busted coconut. Okay. Can I move this without causing a lot of problems with this rug? Probably not. Scoot it over here. That's fine. The lovely seashell planter that I didn't I could have done more with this this year. I like this. I just feel like I could have done better. I should not be piling things around this table because when they come here to get the palms, particularly the queen palm, probably have to move this table so you remember not to do that with the rest of them. How's our olive doing? Well, your soil's still nice and moist and you were watered at the same time as the others. Kind of bizarre, huh? Well, maybe that blend is holding on to moisture better than some of the others. That's how it would appear. Seems like a happy olive. Been pushing up some new growth since I got it potted up. It's got two tiny little little babies on it. Oh, I didn't get this one planted. I didn't know it was back here. This one, two of them fell between the cracks. Okay. Well, these will be coming inside for the winter. Oops. Thought those thought I had planted them all up. I had one, two, three, four, I guess. Oh, you know what? I bought more. I didn't need to. And I bought a couple extras midsummer. That's why these are over here. And then I didn't even end up using them. Oh, beautiful. M. This is not a mave. This is a mangave. That pretty. It's the Joe Hoke. Very nice agave. I love the variegation. I'll set it right over here next to the dead hydrangeas. You really get the full aesthetic of how beautiful it is. Wonder what I should put in the container that that hydrangeas inside of. Here's a cute pot. Why don't Why don't I have anything in this? We'll fix that. Get something planted up in there. Anything else hiding out underneath the sweet chine? Yes, a dog toy. Oh, a really gross rag. Jeez. And a variegated luccoia. That No, it's okay. I was going to say it seemed better days. This isn't that bad considering I didn't even realize it was down there. Succulent arrangement here. It needs to be cleaned up. do a bunch of cutbacks. Get things put back into place where they belong. Also going to move this elsewhere. Look at that container. Isn't that so pretty? So so so pretty. Love that pot. And that's actually a fruit bowl. But pot fruit bowl. You know what I mean? Oh. Oh, this is going to make Owen happy. Owen, my nephew, he loves these parrots. I had these out for his birthday party which was back in June. I had four of them or six of them placed around the backyard. And see how they the feets you can hook them onto things and if you do it properly they'll stand upright. Uh some of them got blown down and then he started walking and he found one he picks it up and it's been his little buddy. But the one that he's obsessed with has a hole in it. So I blow it up and it deflates and he thinks that that's amusing. But my lungs don't enjoy that game so much over and over and over again with the inflating. So glad that there's another one over he can play with. All right, that sweep line laying down in there. Come on. And just break it. Just do some like I need my snips. Where are my snips? Oh no, I found the end of it. I don't need my snips. We'll just do this. Come on. Oh my gosh. Well, that didn't work out as easily as I thought it was going to. The crap. That got really tangled up in there. We go. This guy needs a repot. That's something I should do before I move them inside. There we go. Sheesh. That was a stubborn piece of sweet potato vine. This is a threx radiatic. Then thinx. How do you say it? Always said thrax. Let's see where it was starting to get too much sun and heather there, which is saying a lot for those palms. Okay, first one has been unearthed. In years past, I have gone through and cut all of the annuals and everything out of the containers. I don't think I need to do that this year. Uh with the exception of a pseudar ransom that's over there underneath the queen palm. I don't I just don't care enough to the trouble to remove the sweet potato vines from these containers. Uh if they survive the winter in the pots, that's great. If not, oh well. They don't guarantee your underpantings. In fact, I'm pretty sure they like rip them all out cuz it just makes it harder to keep the plants watered. But I'm going to let them handle that. That's part of the service. I have a tendency to want to do everything for them and I still pay the same amount of money. So this year I'm I'm not going to do quite as much of that um and you know allow people to do the things that paying them to do, right? It's just it's a thing like you know there was a period of time where um I I had a company that would come by and clean the house once a week and I really felt a strong obligation to help them. I did. It made me so uncomfortable and I cleaned the house thoroughly before they would show up and I was like, well, what is the point of this? But I'm like, well, they shouldn't have to clean up even though that's what I'm paying them to. I did, you know, it was a whole thing. Uh, it was necessary at a time where there was a lot of stuff going on, but not anymore. And, you know, it's sort of the same situation here where I'm going, all right, this is what they do. Go ahead and let them do what they're supposed to do and what you're paying them to do, which is to go ahead and pull the plants. Technically, they will. I would never do this then, but they would. I don't have to lift a finger. They would pull out all these things on their own and completely unpop the other pumps. They would do all of that. I would never ask them to do that. And it's like another $65 per extra hour. So, yeah, there's that, too. I just think it's considerate to have everything lined up and ready to go. So, I'm going to find my dolly. I don't know. Oh, it has 400 lb of pool salt sitting on it right now. Oh, that's fun. Well, I don't really need the dolly right now. We can just We can just do this. Just do the little scooty thing. Just spin it. Just spin it into place until get it where it needs to go. Jeez. Poor dag horn fern. It fell back here about two weeks ago and I couldn't get to it. I was like, well, it'll be okay. I know they're tough. Got it out of there and get this guy cleaned up now. Little baby. Set it over here so it doesn't get exposed to too much sunlight. Look how the soil, all the dirt. It's amazing how in just a matter of months everything builds up so quickly. Makes such a huge mess. I don't think I really need to pull these out. I would look nicer if they weren't there because, you know, everything's being restructured right now, but they can stay. I would just have to find somewhere else to put them, right? So, I'll deal with those another time. Not something I need to mess with right now. I am curious to get this tie out of here. This tie constellation monstera. Get a good look at it out on its own and see what kind of grown it's done. You hooked yourself to something. Probably the monsteras like to do that. Like to grab onto things. Okay, I get it now. Just knock something over. What are you hooked to? Did you? I bet it put a root out into this heliconium behind there. Yep. It's exactly what it did. I get it. There we go. Oh my gosh. This thing has grown so much. I mean, so so so much. I don't know if you guys remember, I got this on clearance uh from Lowe's. I think it was $15. And I think that uh Well, it's the I think it's the newest leaf was this one right here. So, it had these and so it's grown this one. This one. Man, these are nice big leaves. This one. There's Turbo. Size comparison. Big dog. See, there's my knee. There's my dog. Big dog. It's opening up another one. Love to see it. Nice, happy, healthy growing plants. Now, this helakonia is a No, this one's done. So, I didn't unpot this one or repot this one. I just stuck it back there and it looked really good there, but um well, it doesn't now. Served its purpose. It was very pretty. I had a few extras. I went overboard with the helakonas this year. I don't know what was in this, but well, whatever it was, it it's no more. Maybe it'll come back. Who knows? Is there anything else in this container? No. Okay. Oh. Oh, this one's heavy. I didn't really try that hard either. And just give it a twist and a scoot. No. Okay. All right. Going to need two hands for this one. Oh, I don't need to pull this out. That's not necessary. I just needed to clear a path. They have the gigantic tree cart and dolly. They can get these out. That makes more sense than having these just set over here in the middle of the patio. I suppose I could have left that, but not really. I had to get that edenity out of the way. Was blocking my path to get in here. If I go ahead and move this orchid, cuz that seems like something would get knocked over pretty swiftly in that spot, doesn't it? All right, set you over here. Okay, so that's one, two, three already. Oh. Oh, shoot. I forgot about this edenidia over here. I have to move everything that's sitting in front of this double trunk edinidia. All right. Well, guess there's no better way to do it than to just pick something up and move it, right? So, that's what I'm going to do. I'm going to start pulling all these things out and we'll pick up and talk about I don't know something. Okay. Hey, that wasn't too bad. This is probably where I'm going to go ahead and call it for the night cuz well it doesn't look dark when I point that way but when I come over here everything's going to be all grainy. Just had to clear a path so that I can get this guy out. Looks like this path held itself up pretty well. If you don't know this is a very difficult spot to get these big containers in and out of. And I really went to town trimming out a way to get them in there cuz it always settles in. Put a bunch of gravel down and packed it down. I'm sure it's still going to be a nightmare getting it out of there. Always by myself. I'm not going to do it by myself. I'm going let them do it. So, I always have a team of people. And if not, then I will help him. They can get out. I don't know. Maybe I'll work on that tomorrow. Tomorrow, they're coming the day after tomorrow. So, tomorrow I need to focus on getting those two addinia palms out of those pots. And then need to clear out this area, everything that's in front of the queen palm over here, which really isn't much. There's only a few things sitting in front of it. And then what? The bird of paradise. I want to forget about that one that's tucked way back there. These guys are always a challenge though. I'm not looking forward to dealing with these two. Now, one of them I put into a plastic container, so in theory, it will lift right out. We'll see. This one right here, though, it's just potted right into that container. So, I need to get it out of there. I need to find a pot. We're going have to repot it. Uh, and I would ideally like to find a pot that fits inside of those pots that next year when they show up, I can just drop them right into their containers. That would make life a lot easier and speed things up. It's nice palm trees get delivered and just, you know, plop them into their containers. That's so nice. Okay, I think all these things are out of the way. I'm going to grab the hose and do some watering. These are from the video from the other day, which I filmed I don't know, two hours ago. No, no, no, no, no. Yeah, basically two hours ago. Oh. Oh. Oh, something just flew out of the Was that a bat? Do I have bats in my attic? Huh? Would it just be one bat? I don't think that's a thing. Is there like a bat detector? How do I figure that out? I just Did you see it? I just saw it. Well, I'm going to keep my eyes on that. I love bats. I don't really know about in the attic. I could put up some batous. They might like that. All right, we get back on track here. Yeah, we'll pick up tomorrow and uh handle the rest of everything and then they'll come get the palm trees the day after that and then going have to do some cleaning. Got a lot of dirt to clean up out here and I can move some plants around and get things set up for what they'll look like the rest of the year and a lot of the beginning of next year, too. Okay, I hope y'all don't mind, but I'm using you because I noticed when I was passing through here, what was that 15, 18 minutes ago? whatever it was 20 something minutes ago. I filmed all that stuff you just saw. Got through that very, very quickly. Brought you all along through most of it. Didn't set the camera down very much. But I notic when I was walking through here that I can see this so much better through the camera lens in person. This is just awful. It is terrible. I don't know why I just had to torture myself. Over here, I have a tray of pieces that when I'm not looking through the camera pretty much all look identical. But the camera is blocking out that 3D effect. Really, what it's doing is it's balancing out the light and it's making it so I can actually see the pieces. So, so far with this puzzle, for the most part, not all the way through. Hey, pumpkin. You don't really know where something goes until you put it there. And you kind of have to tilt your head a little bit and go, "Huh, is that in the right spot?" Because some of these pieces like this one, you know, like what the what the heck is that? And remember, you can see this better. I can't as long as I'm looking through the camera. Without the camera, it's a beige color and a rainbow of looks like an oil spill on the bottom. This is nice. I'm not going to take y'all through doing the entire puzzle, but I thought that was interesting. The camera bounces out the light, so it loses some of that 3D effect somewhat. Kind of, but still sort of there. I don't know. I Yeah, I don't know. Do you guys I feel bad for you. You're not really getting the effect. Or maybe on a larger screen you will and I just made you nauseous. I don't know. I'm sorry. A Hey, pumpkin. You saying hi? Everybody a kiss? That was nice. He's so sweet. It's morningish. No, I did not get very much done on the puzzle. This is the puzzle from hell. And I wish that it would just die again. I forgot. I did the thing I showed you all last night about how I can see the pieces better with the camera, but not better enough. You know, like that. What the What the heck am I supposed to do with that? It's part of a tree. There's trees on here. See the tree? Tree tree. They're all over the place. That part's actually not that complicated. That's enough puzzle time. If I look at it too long, it'll never stop and I won't get anything done except for maybe find like two more puzzle pieces. Anyways, where did I leave off last night slash like a minute and a half, two minutes ago in this video? I have absolutely no idea. Would have wor that gossip. All right, I could go ahead and pull this out. I feel like it would be courteous. These guys right here, I don't mind them handling those. They can do that. But this one, it's going to be a pain in the butt. I just don't feel like putting them through that cuz getting that queen palm out of the ground, it's going to be a pain in the butt as it is. So, I need to handle these two edidas and then clear the plants out from the front of this, which that's absolutely not going to be a problem. I just need to move a few things. I assume it depends really on whether or not they're going to use the crane. If they're going to use the crane, which I would think would be a good idea since it's freaking huge, then they just wrap a strap around it and pull it up and then everything falls over and I pick it back up easy. This thing's going to be blowing up all over me when I open it. All that shaking. But if they don't use the crane, then uh well, they're they're not going to be having a very good morning. Don't know what the point is of bringing the crane if you don't use it. But apparently there's different sizes. We talked about that in another video. They don't know which size cranes will be showing up all the time. So hopefully the one that comes tomorrow will be big enough. Oh, hey. Hello. Look, nice big bloom on the fansa. Smelts nice, doesn't it? Anything out of you yet? Look at how much this one has grown. I repotted this one in a video not long ago at all. Maybe 3 weeks. And it just like went poof when I repotted it. Yeah, it'll be in that pot for a while. I can't wait to see what it flowers look like. This one's supposed to be one of the ones that has like two or three flowers on it, which will be interesting. I'm procrastinating. I don't feel like doing this. It's just It makes such a mess. Things are already messy enough over here. I'm sorry. I'm sorry, Aloe. Didn't mean to do that. This one, if it hasn't rooted into whatever's down below, it shouldn't be that hard to get out of here. Oh, an impatient that I didn't plant. That's fun. I like how the impatience pop up all over the place. Everything else that's in here, I think I'm just going to leave in here. I do have this little legular area back here that I'm going to pull out. I don't want that in there. But, uh Oh, it's in a pot. It has a pot. So, and it's ready to be moved up to a larger pot. I started to repot this in another one, I don't know, maybe a month or two ago, and they really weren't very established into their container. So, I said, "All right, we'll just leave them. Let them do their thing and grow on some more." Oh, I should have turned the drip off. I didn't think about that. That's going to add some weight to this. Should I pull the bromeilads out? I It's 2 years now. I've been doing the bromemads in the front of these containers. I wouldn't mind having change next year. They're very easy to overwinter in the grow space, though. Like, I lit I just do this right here. I just pull them out and then I set them on a shelf somewhere. I don't even repot them and they make it through the winter just fine like that. So, it's easy enough that I can pull them out. Look at the new growth on this elastica down here. Isn't that really pretty? There's really nice color on this one. I don't know. Is that a shriana? What are you? I don't know. I don't know. It just says fus. I'm sorry. But, uh, it's cool. Has nice color to it. Things like this. the beonia. I can just break those apart, give them back to the garden slash I don't feel like cleaning them up. So, that's the best I'm going to do with them. Oh, this guy's growing all the way down there into the garden. That's awesome. It's got roots down there. I don't have to worry about digging it up. I was thinking about lifting these, not digging them up, but lifting those lmacia and maybe keeping them potted up and using them again next year. But if they root into the ground and see that just pops right out, I don't have to worry about it because Oh, there's me. All right, I needed some spraying in here. That time of year, the mealies are just absolutely everywhere. Are they up here or are they just hanging out down there in the dark foliage? I don't see them up here. Aren't the cordalins? These guys are meie bug magnets. No. Okay. Well, that was weird. I go ahead and just try and get the rest of that out of there. May as well. All right. Wonder. Oh, this is going to be hard. I'm going to work on these for a while and get them out of their containers. I'm not going to film the process because it will drive me up the walls trying to deal with the camera and making sure that I'm talking while I'm doing everything. I'm not doing I'm just I'm just This right here I need to lay it down and pull. Hopefully, it'll come out. That one over there is going to be a bigger ordeal. Oh my god, that was amazing. I have to find another one of these containers for that other one. I didn't have to. I just picked it up and dropped it down. Which is the entire point of putting them into a container that actually fits inside of these pots. I hope I have another one of those pots to pot that one up into so that when they come back next year, I can just take them and just set them in there. Hopefully, you noticed that you couldn't really even tell that they were a pot inside of a pot with all the trailers coming over the edge. And that was that was the point, right? These got some good growth on them this year, doesn't they? Look at them. Can you believe just a couple years ago these were just some crown shafts with just a couple rings on them? Yeah, looking good. All right, not as excited about this one cuz I know it ain't going to be fun. This one I do need to probably go find a tarp for or just accept I'm going to make an extremely big mess while I'm doing this. Huh. Wonder. Yeah, I'll take that fry deck out of there. That doesn't need to be in there. Also, these beonas, these overwinter so easily. I could dig them up and take them inside, but it's also very possible they will overwinter in these containers and come back next year when they bring them back. How are the meie bugs in this one? I see some stuff going on down there. It's disappointing, but not shocking. I do have to be more on top of pulling some of the plants out of these because I'm going to be pulling the entire root ball out, right? It's not going to just lift out all nice and smooth like it did with that other one. So, I'm going to work on this and uh I don't know. While I'm working, I'm going to think about what I would like to put in these pots for the winter time. This plant I had to call for reinforcements. That thing's not budging. Everything else has been going so incredibly smoothly. And then that that's freaking palm tree. However, we got to go look at it cuz this thing is just looking so good. I feel very exposed. Even though the palm trees were right here, for some reason, I feel more exposed right here now. What's that about? Okay, look at the freaking trunks on this one. This thing is really girth up. Come down to the side. Nice fat mama. this palm tree every year and the same for that one up until this year. It gets its roots pruned and repotted every single year because the container I send them off to storage with is larger than containers that fit into these big blue pots here. These are called Miami Planters. If you hear me call them Miami Planters, it's from Franches. These from Leu Leau, but you know, it's a major pottery company. Anyh who, I have to prune their roots to get them back into these containers when they show up the next spring because they will root it out into the larger containers I put them in. Uh up until this year when I figured out that these 15gallon pots fit just perfectly inside of these. I mean, not perfectly. They stick up a little. They stick up some, but not very much. And so that's why this one lifted out so smoothly. And this one isn't in a plastic nursery pot because well, I didn't have these at the time. I've been saving them so that I could do this in the fall. And whatever I put in here for the winter time for fall through spring, I'll put inside of these pots right here and then put this palm tree into that one. And I'm just I can't help but wondering if the yearly root prune has been doing something for the plant because I have never in my life had edinidas that girth up this well without getting a good amount of sunlight. And there's not a ton of sun over here. They get a okay amount of sun up until early to mid July. And then you know moving into summer things are shifting and the sun's lower in the sky and there's just a lot more shade over here. So that's what July, August, September. Three of the six months that they're here, they're getting a good amount of shade. Morning sun, afternoon shade, and still nice thick trunks on these. Like these are really big and bulbous, which is just awesome. So they're happy. I'm having second thoughts about trying to squeeze this into one of these little black nursery cans. Uh uh we're just going to have to see how that plays out. I don't really know what to do with that just yet. I had to call in reinforcements because this thing does not want to budge out of this pot and I don't want to twist and pull and shimmy the thing around too much and then end up breaking the container. So, as somebody who's going to be coming over, we'll get this out. And I may go ahead and pop this up into a larger container, not one of these for the winter time, and then next year when it comes, do the root prune on it into one of these black nursery pots. That just makes the most sense to me that if I'm going to be doing a root prune and to have to fit the plant to a smaller container to do that when they have the growing season to make up for it and not when they're going to go into a greenhouse where they keep things at like 50 to 60° and you know they're that's not going to be great for them. That's daylight hours. It's not artificially lit. It has a translucent roof at the facility. Why do I hear the beeping sounds that the truck makes when they come here to pick up my palm trees? They're not supposed to be here until tomorrow. Better have been some a-hole out here with a golf cart or something that I was hearing. But that sounded just like the crane. Okay, not the crane. That's good. I get nervous this time of year because even though they told me when they would be here, sometimes they just show up. Uh that would suck if that were to happen to I mean I guess I'm fairly ready for it. I could have everything with the exception of that one palm tree ready to go in I 5 minutes. Just got to pull this guy out and then clear the stuff out from the other palm tree. But I was hoping to have things more prepped for them. In fact, I guess that's what I'll work on while I'm waiting for help to get here. I might need to clear a path. This beonia, it's just so freaking pretty this year. Pink teardrops. Beautiful. Beonia Grandis. Hardy Beonia. If you're in zone 6, give them a try. Gorgeous perennial. I mean, look at it. They just flower and flower and flower. So pretty. And uh yeah, bird of paradise, which has looked better, but I mean it's a bird of paradise. They always look kind of ratty when I have them outside. Wind and everything. It just it just shreds them to pieces. Okay. I was going to pull it through here. I started to pull it through there. I was like, um, why? There's a gate right here, dummy. I don't open it that often cuz the security code on it is glitchy. So, you open it and it just beep beep beep beep. But I got it to work out. There it is. Yeah. Got banged up. You can see its newest leaf, which is just big and beautiful. That didn't do great with the storm we had a couple of weeks ago. But this plant really has done great. It's about to trunk up, too. I think next year this is going to have some trunk down there at the bottom, which is pretty exciting. That's what I love about those white bird of paradise. You know, this is just a $30 plant that was about 5t tall a few years ago, and they get so big and so full. And you don't really have to go crazy. Hold on. laughing because I for some reason felt it was necessary to talk through a burp. You don't have to repot them all that often. They can stay in the same containers for a very long time and I just love that about them. All right, here we go. Hey, here's an angle y'all don't see all that often. Yeah, just pretty much starting the garden towards the back of this laurel. Oh, it looks bad. Real bad. That's all from last winter. Don't really see it getting much better, but you know, is what it is. can't do anything about it. This one right here, they'll lift out with the crane. I'm not going to try and pull it out for them. Not there's no reason to do that cuz they're going to come in. They'll put a strap around it and it'll pull right out for them. This is just a little seedling and then a weed that I had stuck in there. I should not take this to go with the other plants. I should get that weed out of there. Need to move freckles, who I was supposed to cut back. Need to do that. Still have a few weeks left of nice warm weather. So, have to make that a priority, which means I shouldn't move it very far to keep it over here where it still stands out. That's very obvious. I don't want to tuck it away somewhere then end up forgetting about it. Okay, bird of paradise is out. So, now guess I can clear the stuff out from the front of the queen palm. Again, there's really not that much here. There's a planter that had a fuchsia in it. Did not do well with the drought. It just died. No surprise there. Fuchsia don't like those droughts. And these are just hanging baskets. So, I should just be able to lift these right out. These are going to need to be cut way back. I think I'm going to take them inside this winter cuz why not? They're dragon wing bon. Dragon wing beonas are so freaking tough. They overwinter fairly easily, but um they're pretty funky looking at this point. So, they're going to get drastic prune. And that's good. It opened things back up for this fern. I was having trouble getting to that fern. What's going on with you? That's just a bromeilad that's dried up. Finished its flowering. It's done now. Have a ginger down in here. I want to send that back and hold on to the ginger. I have the yang bromeilad that's in here. And another little bromeilad that's still got some color on it. Going to hold on to that. H. Oh, there's an orchid back here, too. Felonopsis. Pull that guy out. Oh, I did a lot of growing. Got really full. And the pseudaranthemums down there. There's also a variegated banana in this container. Uh what is it? The uh you know the aa or no musa Florida. This is a sudaranthemum. No, I didn't do gentle things with it. They're tough plants. Right now, I'm just going to nestle those roots down in some moist soil that I have sitting in the cart and get that potted up another time. I don't know if I want to take the yang. I'll take the yang. I could go from the base. Don't know why I was pulling it from the top. That was not smart. Not how we're supposed to do things. Here we go. All right. Yang. Is this one yang or are those yang? I can't remember. I have no idea. I see another ped plant back here that I don't Oh, you're not supposed to be there. Oh, shoot. What's Okay, this is a yaka alloy foia that it was on that wall back there and when the palm tree got shifted, I think that it hit the ground and somebody picks up and just set it there, which is not ideal cuz those need a lot of sun. But that's all right. It's a yaka. It'll be okay. Literally, the rest of this is just, you know, boom. There we go. They can get to the palm now. Oh, kind of. I should probably do a better job at clearing a path. Really hoping that they can use the crane on that thing tomorrow. What did I do with my bubbles? My bubble water. Where's my bubble water? Used to hate carbonated water. But then I stopped drinking soda and then a few months into I was like, "Oh, I miss bubbles." So now I kind of like it. Has to be ice cold, though. All right, I'm going to mess around with this guy for a little bit and see if I can't get it out of there. Oh, it looks so empty. I guess it really it doesn't look that bad cuz there's still all this going on over there. But remember, tomorrow or in a several minutes in a several h in a bit those palms won't be there anymore. So that's going to going to be bizarre. Be interesting to see how the beonia behaves now it's not being shrouded by the palm tree. Although I have the windmill palm over here which will go in place of that adinidia. I'm going to be taking that, moving it over here. The Royal Raindrops crab apple that's going to come over here. And then I have another what is it? Prairie Fire crab apple that's going to go over there. So, there going to be some tall foliage, larger containers over here. I think that's going to be really nice throughout the rest of the year. And I have whole bunch of evergreens. I'd like to get some more to keep piled into this area cuz I would still like for this to be a nice inviting space with or without the palm trees. You know what I mean? the double trunk looking pretty good. You can see where it's got got some wonk to its growth because the one side was up against the house, but uh that's how it's been the last what 3 years I believe. It doesn't really seem to affect it. In fact, I think it grows better over here than it ever did over here. It used to go right here, right in between those two big blue pots where the Chinese fan palms are. It would have been right in the middle and it just sort of sat still there, but since it got moved over here, it's just been loving life. really has been nice and healthy. I pulled the pack of stackis lutia out of this container. It's over here and I figure I'll give it a cut back and try and limp it along through the winter time. They're pretty easy to overwinter. I was thinking about maybe doing the same thing here with the shrianththees, the what's the common name? Persian shields. The Persian shields cuz they also they overwinter so so so easily. And it's going to be one of those things where I'll go and I'll pot them up. Give them a cut back. Pot them up. And if when I move the plants inside, I really just don't have room for some of these sorts of things, then I just won't take them in. I'll see if somebody else wants them. I just really enjoy especially the strobales. I enjoy them during the winter time. I remember a few years ago I had the masil basil and the strobales, a whole bunch of things on the grow shelves and they just did well. I didn't have to do anything with them. They were just nice, happy plants and I I enjoyed that with them. Actually, I had to keep them pruned quite often. I think that was the same winter that I had um some peppers grown in the grow space. What were they? The really good ones, my favorites. The publanos and pablanos growing. They gave me really dinky little publanos. But it was so fun. Okay. Yeah. I don't I Are we done? I guess so. other than I need to get that edinity out of its container and popped into a new pot. And then uh that's really all that needs to be done for tomorrow. I do feel like I I really feel like I need to go in there and pull those other palms out. There's no reason to. For one, uh the queen palm, if that's not leaning against the house, it will fall over. This does not stand up on its own. So, there's not much reason to pull it out. And the robelini, well, I don't No, I just don't see a reason to pull it out cuz it's probably helping to keep the queen palm upright. It would be nice to clean it up some. It didn't have a great year. Next year it'll be better. I have it up on drip and I think I'm going to try and get a bunch of the soil out of its container and put in a different soil because I know they repotted this one for me which is very nice of them. Um I saw them do it through the window. They did it on their truck out in the street and it looked like they were using stay green potting mix. I could be wrong, but I recognized that bag and I was like, uh, it's not my favorite kind of it it drains well and everything, but it's like you're just planting something in mulch essentially. That varies from place to place. Some of y'all, I'm sure it's a different case. It just depends on where they're collecting your or making your soil. But I don't know. All the bags I've ever bought, it it wasn't worth it once I did something that drained real well and had a moisture retention. A lot of moisture retent. It's time to stop. I'm going to work on this for a while. We'll come back. Yeah, that was intense. It's never been that rooted into the container before. Uh, here it is in all of its glory. Like I said, I didn't see a reason to bump it down a pot size this time of year that doesn't make sense next year. I'll do whatever kind of prune is necessary to get it into a container that'll fit into those pots, and next year I won't have to deal with the nightmare of getting them out again or potting them back in again. It's difficult, you know, because I have some cinder blocks I keep to the bottom of these pots. These pots are big, but they're tall, so I have to worry about blowing over. So, I have some broken cinders that stay in the bottoms of these. Uh, you may notice Yeah, that's how rooted in it was. I pulled and I pulled and I pulled and somebody else was sitting on top of the pot and just cracked. But it was a very even and clean break. So, I'm not really all that upset about it. It's unfortunate, but it could be worse. This will just glue right back in here. I've already picked it up and set it in there, and it fits perfectly snug. So, I just need to uh get a larger amount of glue. I have some glue, but it's not enough. And then just put well, wash it down first. Add the glue to each piece, set it in there, and just put a strap around it. And done. Then the container is fixed. And it still has a nice view from the front, so you won't really even be able to tell that it cracked in the back. Could be way, way, way worse. I do find it ironic though that the whole reason I put all the bricks and things in the bottom and I make sure to use a really to use this as a cach pot is because I don't want to have to move these containers around cuz I might break them and then you know but that's the whole reason why I want to get these bumped into plastic pots or that other one bumped into a plastic pot so that I wouldn't break it anymore. Um and well I broke it. All right, what's done is done. I also went by the uh masonry yard and picked up some stones. Aren't they pretty? They're really pretty. Really nice shine to them. And I have some more down here. This is it for the palm trees. Time to say goodbye. I don't know. I might film a little bit tomorrow morning, but as far as I'm concerned, we're done with the palms for the year. You see them again next year. Oh gosh, they're so big. These have grown. So, well, this one I just got, but this one's really got some good size on. This thing is towering. It's got to be 14 ft probably. Well, in the pot probably about 14 ft. Okay. And then the other rock I got is in here. And I just tossed them down in there. Obviously, I'm not going to leave them like that. Need to actually level the space out and put some sand and some gravel down and everything so this is nice and even. And I'm gonna put the rest of that stone that you saw over in here. So there's a path to slide the plants in and out of. I can tell. Oh, stinking horns. Look at the stinkhorns. Oh, they're so gross. A very interesting fungus. That's pretty cool. I'm going to do a screenshot. Boom. Screenshotted it. Fascinating fungus. I cracked a seashell. Yeah, you get But I'm going to play around with this so I now have a smooth surface to move the plants in and out of. And I'm going to put um a mesh or something along the side of this burm to help retain, you know, because it just it'll just keep pouring down, eroding down. Dang, you did not like being exposed. It's used to having the Robelini over. I did pull the Robelini out. I don't really know why. Didn't need to, but I did. I just felt like I needed to do some more. They called. They're coming tomorrow. They have the crane. They also informed me that they have a new queen palm for me, which is amazing. We've been talking about this one and how it just can't go over in this spot anymore. And um they have owed me a queen palm for a couple of years cuz there used to be one on each side here and one of them died during the winter when they were storing it. Don't know why that just I don't know that just happens sometimes, I guess. Not often with the queen pumps. They were kind of confused by it, too. And but they actually didn't owe me. It's a courtesy. you sign something saying that if a plant dies and too bad and they do their best to not let that happen and they don't just really I at least in my experience anytime a plant has died they've replaced it with something they're very courteous in their regard um but they didn't bring me the new palm last year and then this year they've never brought it and we shook on it okay things happen but there's supposed to be a queen palm on each side of this step here and he says he's got a great one that um it's smaller than that one but it has like nice skinny trunk on it. I'm like, "Oh, that sounds awesome." So, that'll be here next year and it'll either be right there. So, it'll be a queen palm on each side, assuming that one makes it through the winter. It's been on the struggle bus this year, or it'll go over here in place of this one cuz it's smaller and more lightweight. Sounds cool. He said he already has it tagged with my name on it, so it's ready to go. All right, that's it. Everything's done and ready. I'm going to have to find some glue. See if I can I'll try and do that tonight so the pot can be dried up tomorrow cuz you know I don't like having all the empty pots around. Although it won't be this case this year. Usually, you know, they come and they take the palm trees and then these two pots are empty and then those pots are empty and these things are empty. But I'm not having them take as much as I have in years past. They're still taking an awful lot. They're taking 10 plants. That's a lot. But, uh, I decided with these, I just I don't want them to take them because these will be good for quite a while. I would imagine these will look good depending. I mean, who knows what's going to happen, but assuming we have a normal fall, these could look good in here until December. I just don't want to take these apart and disassemble them. I don't want to do it. And I know that if I overwinter them in the greenhouse, they'll come back with only a few fronds, which is going to be the same difference as if I overwintered them here myself, right? So, why pay to have that done? And also, I don't know if I want this to be a permanent thing out here. I really enjoy them, but they are a lot, like a lot. So, still have plenty of time to get to enjoy those. This is nice. I'm just more relaxed than usual. Usually, I'm really stressed out with the moving of the palm trees. And a big part of that is these gossia palms and the two edidas down there. But since I had the one in the casho, just popped right out. And I only had one palm tree to struggle with. And I'm not taking these out. At least not right now. You know, like I said, I'll probably try and take them in the house or do something with them, I guess. But, um, yeah, I mentioned I'm just not really into these palm trees in these containers anymore. It just I don't it's just it doesn't do it for me. I love the Gossia palms. I think they're very interesting, but I think they look pretty ratty in these containers. It's just too much exposure for them and uh they're too slow to grow. Uh, the Alexander palms, it's also too much exposure for them. I've tried them here before. didn't really work all that well cuz there was just too much sun, but the trees have grown. So, that might be a nice option. Uh, or I had mentioned in the garden tour and a video prior to that one about the strawberry vanilla hydrangeanger trees, which there's one there and there's one over there. I have two in the front yard that aren't doing great cuz they're not getting enough sun anymore. Then I'd have hydranger trees all the way around the pool. I would miss that tropical aesthetic down here, but I would also just love the simplicity of not having to replant things um in the springtime and just pop some annuals all around the pool and have that uniformity. I just I think that would be nice. I don't know. Whatever I do, I'm sure it'll be fun and it'll look great next year. We can think about all that stuff next year. I was going to go ahead and get the windmill palm slid over and moved into this spot, but I think I should fit with that stone some more tomorrow. and um just wait until the palm trees are gone. Have more of a clean slate to work with once the big palms are gone and uh I can do things with more intent cuz I'm sure that this this whole vibe over here is going to be different. I might want to move some. I don't know. I don't know. The pumps are going to go and we'll pick up at some point tomorrow either before they take them while they're taking them. More than likely it'll be a little bit before and then right after. So there it is. Say goodbye to the palms. I'm going to grab my pruners and try and get this one cleaned up. It's embarrassing. I don't want them to see what happened to this one. To be fair, everything that's brown on here was going to be brown when they delivered. Those were broken fronds from the delivery. Um, but it's more that it didn't grow that much this year. I didn't have it up on drip and I just, you know, I was like, it's a queen. It can take it. And it could, but it would have grown a lot more if I had watered it more consistently. But I, you don't have to cuz it's a queen palm, right? It didn't need more consistent watering. And I'm not trying to get this thing to grow like a weed because then next thing I know I'm going to have another jumbo one like the one over there. I would rather this one say scrawny and maybe a little bit sad looking. Not the sad looking part, but you know, not trying to bulk it up to one of these. M What was I about to say? One of these monster palms over here. All right, that's enough. That's enough. I've done enough today. Pick up later. Well, this is interesting. I just pulled this container out so I could do some pruning on those two broken fronds up there and uh a shrew v shrew I don't know came flying out of the bottom of the hole. That might explain some of the growth problems this year. I mean I was really blaming myself thinking I guess I'm just not watering it enough. But to be fair, I was watering it the same as the Robelini, the windmill, and the Edinidias, and they didn't have an issue. I just figured I was like, this is really crummy soil. And I did skip it occasionally because it's a queen palm, and it doesn't necessarily need to be watered as much as these other ones do. Really, the edinity is in the windmill. the robo lady and the queen can go more on the dry side, but um that might have something to do with some of the problems. I think that it's quite possible that there is a critter in there chewing on the roots all summer. So, good to know. Next year, uh flush that out with peppermint oil, a diluted peppermint oil, not full strength. That'll keep them out of there. Probably do that once a month, but that'll help keep the critters from getting into the pots. Mhm. Okay. Well, oops. Good to know. Can I clean any of these off? Probably not. I bet when it comes back next year, though, I'll be able to snap several of these off this morning. Think they have seven of the 10 plants on the truck. I went ahead and I took everything out to the driveway for them except for this guy, the big Alexander that they're doing next, I think. Or they're doing one of the edenidas now, the one that was in the landscape. And here's the queen. What's left over? Yeah. Look. Oh, I was going to pull this lucasia out. Can I still get it out? Am I going to just tear the I'm just going to tear the bulb up. It can stay. It's fine. Can try and get that out next year. Here's our baby. I want to prune it so bad. Look at how much of this could go. Right. I could get these three off. There's a new crown shaft. Not really new crown shaft, but you know, everything's down here. That'll bring the base up to there. But next year, we should be able to get clear trunk up to about right there. But uh next year we can do that next year. Have them lay it down before it goes cuz it's going to go in a different spot. We already talked about that, right? Oh my goodness. Made such a mess out here. Oh yeah, and there's the crane. There's a crane over my house right now. When your house plant obsession gets absolutely ridiculous and hard to justify. Hey. Hey. Hey. [Music] [Music] Huh? And they're going got a big old muddy hole over here, which you know to be expected. That palm tree was big. I swear the crane could have reached it. They pulled that out on their own. They laid it down and then they wrapped the thing. There was a video. You probably saw it. And I really think the crane would have reached, but it's okay. It's not going to go there next year. It's too much. I worry about people getting hurt. Something smaller will be here. I guess I could just pull the croen ford and drop that in this spot. That's an option. I'm not really looking to completely rearrange the yard for the next what 2 and 1/2 3 weeks until we have frost. I don't want to do it. Well, I will be doing some rearranging. Like I said, I'm going to move the windmill. I was going to move it over here, but I think it would make a heck of a lot more sense to put it right here, wouldn't it? And then take the crab apple and put that on that side step because it's so much harder to get plants in and out of this spot right here. The crab apple could stay out there all year. And the windmill could be right there. And it' be a lot easier to move it in and out. And there's an outlet over there. So it' be easier to wrap it or something if we're going to go just a little bit too cold for it. And I can just wrap it up. Huh. It's nice to have options. I don't know. These are all things that I'm going to think about for a day. I'm going to probably wrap this up cuz I still have to get everything edited and put together and then cleaned. Hole over here is pretty mucky. Have to put something around that. I don't want my nephew falling in there. Overall, even though the palm trees are gone, it still looks pretty freaking good out here. But I've noticed I don't really get bummed when they take the palm trees away anymore because everything is become so lush and looks so good. See? Still looks good. Looks very good and colorful. It actually it sometimes feels nice to have them come and get the palm trees cuz it's like, okay, we can go ahead and kick off the fall season and start prepping things in the garage. I don't know. It's just become a seasonal mood for me. It's also nice to have the palm trees out of here a little bit earlier than normal because I can show you guys the garden what it look like without the ridiculously large palm trees. You don't have to have that. I mean, there's some hearty bananas, some cannas, collocacias, and then a row of sunpatients, and just all that color makes everything look beautiful. And then, you know, you could just throw like a couple like majesty palms in the mix or something if you wanted to, if you like those horrible things. In fact, that's really the only reason that I'm not jumping on top of rearranging like the crab apples and those things down on that end of the patio because everything is still looking so beautiful and tropical out here that I'm not quite into fall winter mode. I've prepared with the plants to go into that mode, but I'm just not there yet. It's also, you know, in the 80s and lower 90s and just it doesn't feel like fall at all and won't for probably another two weeks at least. I don't know what the forecast looks like two weeks ahead, but supposed to say very, very, very warm. So, you know, I don't know. I'm not jumping on top of doing fall planters right now, but I do think it would look good to get a few things moved around over there. We can start on that next week. Like, I got to do a lot of cleaning first. I got to clean up, then move plants around and make a whole another mess and then clean up. But if I do it right now, I'm just going to be grinding all the dirt and everything onto the patio. I already have there's somebody over there with a leaf blower. Uh helping with the dirt and I'm going to go help them out with that. So, I need to wrap this up. Hey, thanks for hanging out. I had a good time. Hope you did, too. It's a yearly thing around here. Sending off the palm trees. Some of y'all get sad about it. I'm not sad about it. I like it. It just signifies like moving on to the next part of the year and those fun activities that come with the next part of the year like working in the grow space and probably doing some propagations and terrariums and uh maybe some seed starting if I feel like planting things I know I'm not going to water them will just die water enough you know the seeds they take so much water I just I'm not good at it frequency with the water that is but you know and then the part of the year we get to cut everything back and freshen everything up with some soil or not soil mulch I think it's compost So, compost, mulch, you get it. Mulch to soil to compost. There's some subtle differences. By subtle differences, I mean they're all of course totally different things. Yeah. Okay. Hey, hope everybody's doing well. Having a great day, great life, and everything's just going absolutely beautifully for you. Comment down below what's going on your yards. You starting your fall prep. Did you get your crane to show up and take your palm trees away yet? Oh, the view over here is opened up very nicely. Can see all the things, but Edinidia was here and couldn't really see back there all that well. This is where that queen's going to go next year. right here. Right there. I think that'll look really nice. Yeah. Uh and hey, as always and most importantly, everybody, keep on growing. Bye bye. [Music]