Enjoy a September, LATE SUMMER GARDEN Tour

The birds fly south as the light leaves your eyes Hold on to your dream, oh I know you wanna scream Since the day you're born, you're just a flower on your own Waiting for the sun to blossom I thought we'd just do kind of a blanket garden tour. We won't get too in the weeds, so to speak. But I'm standing here in our shrubbery. And you can see that the asters, look at this aster. It's so insane. It's just starting to come into flower. I did not plant this here. Some of this linear, this is a linear aster. It's just coming up in with this purple leaf sand cherry. So that's actually what's behind here. And we have continued to put our old fences around certain trees because we have yet to fix some of the places in our deer fence. And so we still have deer browse. I'll actually show that to you. You'll see it here on this viburnum. If some of you are not familiar with deer browse, this is what it looks like. So you can see that they didn't get the tips of these, but they love the tips of the viburnum. So I'm not sure when this viburnum will ever flower. It's been pruned by our deer. So this hydrangea would have been mowed down. But there's a lot going on in this garden. Some of the dahlias that we had planted earlier are just starting to come up. Now, I don't know how I feel about these. I've tried to get some not complicated dahlias, but I mean, I think they're absolutely beautiful. But to me, I don't know how useful they are ecologically speaking because I never see pollinators on them. You'll see one over here. We could work our way through this. Shouldn't be stepping in the garden, but this is one that's in bloom. And I tried to stick with dahlias that have really simple flowers to see if this part of the inflorescence, if pollinators will land on it. But with all the perennials that are out now, like the asters and the solidago, the goldenrods, they don't give this the time of day. So even though they're beautiful blooms, I don't know how ecologically useful they are in the garden, but I don't mind kind of dotting them out here and dotting them throughout the garden here and there. This is one of the solidagos that I had planted in this pollinator garden. And you could see, you know, if you blur your eyes, you're like, oh, there's so much goldenrod out. And when we go through the meadow, you see so much goldenrod. But there's all these different species of goldenrod, and it's one of the most important plants for specialist pollinators and our regular native pollinators. This one's not quite in bloom. It's a later bloomer. So if you're looking for a late-blooming goldenrod, then I would say solidago speciosa, which is called the showy goldenrod. Over here, you'll see that I had these rugose types. So this is solidago rugosa. And this one is kind of past its bloom, although I have another one over there that's just starting to bloom. The sneezeweed, I mean, look at this. Just to give you perspective, I'm 5'11". So these are quite tall. This is a shorter sneezeweed, so this is one of our other species. And that is one of our native bees, megakyle. He's just kind of floating around. He's on the verbena now. But this is another one of our sneezeweeds. This obviously doesn't spread as much as the common sneezeweed. Some asters, preanthoides. This is symphyotrichum preanthoides is just coming out now. And again, another big linear aster. Not something that I planted in here, but that has moved in and has made itself at home in the pollinator garden. Oh man, look at this. Katie did. Right there. Flies and hops. So here again is this rugose. This might actually even be the cultivar fireworks, solidago rugosa fireworks. But you can see it kind of has this explosion of blooms right here. And then we have phisostagia, and it has really spread. This is called obedient plant, and it's pretty amazing to see all the pollinators. This is in shade now, so there's not as many bees going into it. But during the time when it's sunny out, bees are always constantly going in it. And I notice carpenter bees, I think they make a little incision down here and they kind of steal the nectar. So they steal the nectar without pollinating the plant. This one is a late bloomer, and this is a vernonia. I think this might be southern cross. And this will bloom up through November, which is amazing. To have a pollinator garden that's blooming through November, it's fantastic. Herb garden is still looking good. The pycnanthemums are starting to kind of topple over. Sometimes I have to have a brace in here to kind of brace it up, or else it's going to go flat onto the walk path. But these still have blooms, and when it's in full sun, it's all abuzz. You'll see some honeybees kind of on this right now. Our native bees, I don't know if they're just as interested in this, or if they're kind of elbowed out by our honeybees, or if there's just other things that are more interesting for them. This is our eupatorium dubium baby joe, and this is past bloom, but you'll see that it's seeded all around, and this is in full bloom now. So I hadn't planted that there. It's the same plant, seeded itself in different places around the garden. And you have to make the determination as is it getting too floriferous? Do you want to take it out? Do you want to transplant it elsewhere? We're kind of in the shade now, but that's kind of perfect because this is our shade garden. And you can see that this could have probably used a little bit more water to look a bit more spunky, a little bit more lively, but I think it still looks great. There's a little over 60 different types of plants in here, and I think this looks good pretty much year-round. It is really one of the easiest gardens to take care of because we planted extremely densely at first, and there's very little weeds that move in here. I will point out for all the aeroid fans, we have that one, which is the voodoo lily, and then we have this one that has the tripartite leaf, and that is pennelia. So those are obviously not native to here, but they are hardy and they're really fun to grow. And there's a little chipmunk. So you'll see that chipmunk has a little walk path back there. So as much as I try to plant plants up near the house, it's probably for the better because the chipmunks use that as a path and there's very little plants that grow there, but Sondra's probably happy about that because it prevents plants growing upright against the house. Agrimonia striata. It's funny because this was there was a couple Agrimonia plants that were blooming in early spring, and they usually bloom now, and so this is blooming, and this will bloom through October, which is a pretty nice plant. Pycnanthemum now, you can see in the sun and when the sun is out, you see how many more bees are on it. It's quite audible. Now you'll see this plant has become much more beastly since I've planted it. This is a lespedeza gibraltar, and it's a bush clover, and there's no pollinators on this now. Well, there is a honeybee going on a date with one of the flowers, but when everything is out of bloom, and this is the only thing in bloom, this will be covered with insects. Here, you'll see this is going to seed a very powerful medicinal. This is Lobelia inflata, and you see this tiny, tiny little flower right here, and the tiniest native bees will go into this when this is in full bloom, which is pretty amazing, and it has these little inflated sacks, which is, I think, where it gets its name. The Augustachy funiculum. Honeybee is right on this now. It's very buzzworthy. All the cultivars, I find, are pretty buzzworthy. Smells like anise. It's really nice. It's got a nice licorice smell. This is just starting to bloom. I can't wait to show you this when I do a fall tour. This is Symphyotrichum ericoides snowflurry, quite possibly one of my favorite plants in the garden, and this will be covered with white. It'll almost look like snow. So, to me, September-October is an exciting time for the garden. Not everything is in bloom, but some of my favorite plants are in bloom in September and October, especially the asters. I've gotten really into asters. We just finished giving a garden tour, end of summer, a personal garden tour to about 40 folks who came. So thank you to all of you who have come, but for those of you who couldn't make it, this will give you a little bit of a taste for the tour. This one is kind of past bloom. All the lavenders started to cut some of these heads back, but this is a calaminta. This is Montrose white, I believe, and this is in bloom now. All the purples have kind of faded, and you can see that this is the last of the nectar sources here. We haven't seen the four-season garden in a while. Oh, I should say, before we do that, this is our Lomo native lawn that has not been mowed at all this season. So it kind of got away from us. I was sharing with a group that typically we will mow this twice, and we mow it once in late June, kind of July, and then we'll mow it again in late September, early October. I'll show you what a lawn looks like that's only mowed twice per year, so you can get a sense of it. But because we haven't mowed this back at all, you will see how many calico asters have come out in this, and it's not something that I had seeded in here. It just seeded itself during the time when we were in the seeding process, and it's pretty amazing, and we do have calico asters growing in other parts of our lawn, but more so here, and I think that it might just be closer to the meadow, and so it's easier to seed in here. These lawns have also not been mowed, and you can see they're not as dense because I densely seeded this area, but it doesn't get that high. I mean, look at this. The inflorescences are high, but the actual grass itself is really not that high. So I was quite impressed with not mowing this this year, and I don't know, we even didn't mow the pads as much this year, just because we were so busy with the renovations. So I'd love to show you the four-season garden over here. We haven't seen it since the last time we did the tour, and you can see that the Artemisia is really doing its job and starting to fill out. This garden is deceivingly big, and the amount of plants you need in order to kind of really fill it out is quite a lot. This got a little deer-browsed, I saw, over the winter months, but it's kind of bounced back. These are supposed to have a bit more of a shapely appearance. And then the Fistuca, again, kind of like a gumdrop, just really, really beautiful, really love the seed heads. And the heathers, of course, are in here. Yellows and oranges, the heucheras, got that copper tone. I'm loving the Amsonia, but they're not really that big yet. I've planted these extremely small. So these will get quite tall, the Amsonia hubricteis, and they'll start to yellow up, like a really beautiful, buttery, golden, chartreuse-y yellow in the fall months. And then here is, I believe these are Symphyotrichum laevis, these smooth-stemmed asters. And I did plant quite a bit of asters in here, and I just kind of wanted that airy, purple-y yellow colors, blues, oranges, really vibrant colors, and I think it's really holding its own. If we go back here, though, you can see there's a lot of bare earth. Which one? Oh yeah, so this is a creeping Lonicera. And I'll have to get you the cultivar name of this. And again, just really beautiful color. It doesn't keep its leaves in the winter months, but just has this really nice prostrate, spidery appearance. And I'm always looking for great plants that are low to the ground and that will be a good ground cover. Obviously this one outshines it in the sense that it's a good spreading ground cover and gives that blue color, but that's a really pretty chartreuse kind of look. You can see that these on this side are a bit chlorotic, meaning they're getting too much light. So this is the south coming in, and they're losing that color. So the chlorophyll is getting damaged, unfortunately, here. So I think that this is a plant that's better over there, where it's not getting full sun. And then I probably should concentrate on growing something that's more like this, like a sedum. Although these little Mexican hat plants have done extremely well, but these are a little bit more like prairie-like plants. I should focus on this, too, because this did not look like this when I first planted it. This is moor grass, and it's a type of bunch grass that gets this purple inflorescence. It's not a native grass. I like to plant more native grasses, but this one happens to be just a really pretty one that gives that airy appearance where you're just kind of, you can still see through to the background. It's quite an impressive specimen. So we have this garden as well, and this is our memorial garden, and you can see that it did get some deerbrows. So we have this colmia here that basically got well deerbrows, and there's no leaves that has graced this plant. So that's something that I'm going to have to pull, unfortunately. And this is a reality of like, when we have too many deer in the area, this is basically what happens. So I have to be careful and mindful of that because we invest a lot in our gardens and we want to make sure that our deer fence works so that we don't have to replace plants all the time. This is where we first planted the Artemisia, and I just love how it just covers the ground. We planted some more of that Symphyotrichum aricoides so that we'll get like little white flowers everywhere. And then when we get around here, I stop planting, and it gets more wild. And I think maybe in two years' time, we'll have a plan for this, but for right now, we just kind of try to maintain what we planted here. We did a tour not so long ago with the walking around the pond. And what I'd like to maybe share with you about that and also the grass is this is just different management techniques. This is us not mowing or mowing less. And the same thing goes for the pond border. We have a neighbor that mows right up to his pond edge, and he will never know what diversity of plants is around his pond unless you let it grow. And the same thing was with the homeowners that owned this property prior. They used to mow pretty close right up to the edge. And what you get when you let the plants grow is just a plethora of biodiversity. And it's been absolutely a privilege to see the incredible plants that are growing here and the amount of bugs and insects and wildlife that are now using this as their home. And in fact, I'm seeing plants in here when we go even deeper into the water. There's some really cool plants right here in general. I was looking here. Look at all these little emergent plants coming up right around here. I don't know what that is. And I'll have to ask one of my friends when he's here next who's a naturalist in the area. And there's just always something new to discover. And it's just because we have left this unmowned. Here's an area that I showed on the tour today. And this is the example of the lawn. So you see this is our path which we mow regularly. And this is a lawn that we have mowed twice. It's pretty short, isn't it? It's just pretty amazing that it has stayed this height after just two mows. And we'll probably mow it one more time. So this would be three mows because we want to keep it short up until spring. Because if you're mowing it in like especially if I'm in New York, zone 5-6 if you mow it late September, early October it's not going to grow for the rest of the year. Now when you mow it, you'll still get wildflowers but look at the calico asters compared to where we didn't mow it. These calico asters are really close to the ground and you'll see them dotted throughout. You'll see other wildflowers in here like here's another aster and there's some yarrow in there. Over here this is also one that we haven't mowed this year and you'll see that the calico asters are quite tall. Or taller compared to that one. And this grass will appear browner. Not that the leaves are dead but you're just going to have a lot of seed heads. And this is something that our birds and wildlife will use to eat during tough times when we're not feeding them in the feeder. And this gives the grass maybe kind of an autumnal appearance I will say because I don't want to say it looks dead. It's just a different kind of look. And if this is something that interests you then you might say hey, this is actually lower maintenance for me. I might only mow twice a year and I get more wildlife value in the process. Now like I said we'll probably mow this over in October. We'll just have to pay attention to the weather because if we mow this now, think about all of the asters that we're mowing down. That's so much pollinator potential right here. So I would say give it some time because if you mow this over I always feel really bad when the bees and the bumbles are on it and then you mow it over too quickly. So I'll show you a bit more of the gazebo. So we took a look at the vegetable garden before. This is an area that we'll eventually want to suppress the grass and plant a little mini meadow here. And we were thinking about doing that this year but realized, I realized that we actually have to have the stone finished around here and the stonemasons never scheduled us in this year so it's going to be punted into next year. And so we have the plastic down just to kind of kill some of the grass. It's a technique that we've used in the meadow that we'll be walking through shortly. But vegetables are still going. I mean I just gave away a bunch of zucchinis today on the tour and our tomatoes. There's plenty of tomatoes to go around so we have one that I should probably pick tomorrow. We're just making watermelon gazpacho every other day now until we run out of tomatoes. The borage, the zucchini, the rosemary is looking great. But this is a little bit of an unimpressive area in the sense that we're kind of, honeybee is liking my shirt. It's kind of an unimpressive area because it looks, I think, a little trashy that we have all this plastic down. But it's the only way right now that we're going to really subdue the weeds that are growing here. Let's work up to the interstitial area and then we'll go to the orchard and then the meadow. Look at this color. That's fantastic. That's going to be a stunner. It's like crimson red. Fall is so beautiful here. Look at the squash growing in our compost heap. And all those weeds I tossed in there. We just got a massive delivery of wood chips in. So be kind to your arborists and folks who go out there and kind of take down some trees because he's always calling me and asking if I want chips and I'm like, yes, yes, yes. So we have plenty. If we don't leave the grass in the yard and we actually collect it, then we have enough brown and green to go over. You'll see, actually, I finally turned the compost because we saw the I don't know if you saw the one episode where we had snapping turtles lay their eggs in our compost heap and I finally was able to turn this. So I didn't turn it at all this year. So that was unfortunate. But I finally put like three heaps together and this is kind of what the wood chips look like. This one, I just made a heap of some of our clippings and grass clippings. And we had we used all that sawdust that Sondra had from some of the renovations. So that will break down a lot faster, I think, compared to the wood chips, the hardwood chips. This is our winterberry. Our Ilex reticulata. Look at it. It is just stunning. You'll often see this in flower arrangements. These berries aren't really edible at this stage, but when the winter comes and freezes them a bit. January, February comes around when there's like not many not much food for the birds. And that's when the birds will start feasting on these. I'll just show you the raised beds because the last time I showed you this the Inula lenium was in full bloom and you can see now that it's past its prime. Asparagus is still kicking. Myoga ginger still looking pretty good. Look at this though. The shrubbery, the pollinator garden. It's amazing. They're only a year and a half to two years old. So lots of progress in that time. So you can see here that we have some of our trees and we've left the cages around them just in case the deer kind of move in. And you can see that here's some of the asters that have come up. We have lots of mints, but this is an aster that I have not planted in there. It kind of just has moved in. Some chives. One that's strangely blooming right now. Normally that's earlier in the season. And even our Minarda fistulosa. This is typically not in bloom right now, but it's blooming late and I'm sure the bees don't mind. And this was the seed heads of a moth mullein that has come up in the landscape. Probably was a nursery escapee and this beautiful yellow flower. So I'm expecting to see more of that next year. This is our native verbena. It's a white flower one though. And again, I didn't plant that here but I kind of like the herbaceousness that's emerging out of our little permaculture corridor here. It's exactly how it's supposed to be. So, welcome to the meadow. This is the 32nd month since it's had been seeded. And you're going to be blinded by goldenrod. There's a lot of goldenrod that has moved in here. Last year there was not nearly this amount of goldenrod. Last year it was a lot of penstemon which we had a little less penstemon this year. A lot of arigeron, which bloomed from May through November which we have some arigeron left. And a lot of Doukas corota, which is the wild carrot which we don't have a lot of that as much anymore. And we have, this is asters. Astronomical amounts of asters. Astronomical! Look at how many are here. This is a very rocky area. It was very hard to plant because I came in here and planted some alliums. But look at the carpets of asters that are coming in here. So, it's just really exciting to see how this meadow is changing throughout the seasons. Now, we have some non-native grasses in here. This is a non-native grass called redtop. You won't be able to tell because it's no longer red. But earlier in the season it has redtops. It's a very beautiful grass. I actually don't mind it in here. And it's not pushy compared to other grasses. You'll see some of our tall goldenrods. So, solidago altissima. And then you'll see finally our symphiotrichum novae anglia which is the New England aster is up. And there's this color combo. Opposite ends of the color wheel. It's so beautiful. So beautiful. These are some taller asters. I think that's a more linear aster. And then you'll see some of our native grasses in here. Panicum. This is our panicum. And you'll see that it's just in flower right now. We'll see more of it as we move down here. Here's another clump. So this is starting to seed in here. You can see it has this kind of bright green grass. And this is going to seed shortly. So this is one of the taller native grasses that we have. That is a warm season grass. Warm season grass usually means that it comes out in like the height of summer into early fall. And then the cool season grasses are the ones that come out in spring and late fall when it's a little cooler. Here's some more panicums. All throughout here. Just these really airy inflorescences. And one of the folks on the tour had asked about how I would define a meadow versus a pollinator garden. And that's a really great question because you could probably define it so many different ways but how I would define more of a meadow is that it's somewhere between 50-70% matrix of grasses versus just flowers. And grasses give you that kind of structure within a meadow throughout the season. And grasses are not really known for their inflorescences. I think people are coming around to the fact that they could be really beautiful ornamental plants in a garden. They give a lot of movement especially when the wind blows through them. The dancing light through the inflorescences it almost feels airy and mystical. Like that is something that I also really love. I love when grasses actually turn brown like you see here with the red top. It just gives this kind of furry texture in the meadow. So because if it was all flowers first of all not all the flowers will bloom at once at every single 365 days of the year. You need some of those grasses to hold the structure. In the pollinator garden I have very little grasses in the pollinator garden. I have some but not a lot. I primarily have flowers that bloom from basically March and through to November. And it's primarily focused on flowers because what do pollinators need? They need that nectar or they need that pollen. Nectaring and pollinating insects need that nectar and pollen and they often won't find that in the grasses. Now that being said if you recall the video that we did on the importance of certain plants that would be considered maybe weeds some of our pollinating butterflies and moths will use grasses and sedges as well as their host plants when they're caterpillars. So that's another important thing to know. I'm going to show you a couple more of our native grasses. This has already gone to seed. You'll see one that has a flower right here that's about to turn to seed. So you can see that as a flower it's a bit more purple but it's drying out. And this is our side oats grama grass, Bouteloua kerchipendula. So you can see that it's called side oats because all of these kind of fall to one side and it looks like it has the flowers just on one side. And you can see how small the grass really is. This is only about maybe 8 inches tall and it's the inflorescence that will send up this spike. But for all intents and purposes this is one of our smaller grasses. It really likes rocky areas and it's really rocky here and you can see all the different side oats grama that have come up. But one that I had seeded and not seen it come in just until maybe a week or two ago is this purple top or grease grass. Look at that color. I mean that is an incredible color. And you can see it's a bit of a taller grass up here so that it's not as short as the side oats grama. But my goodness. And these seed heads are incredible for wildlife. But any of these purpley grasses I absolutely adore. And so in my mind when I was picking out grasses for this meadow I was really drawn to some of those ones that have purplish or reddish purple inflorescences. And at certain parts of the year you could just take a far away photo and see these airy seed heads or inflorescences that are through the meadow and it just again gives a nice matrix. This is the invasive grass that we're dealing with now and I'll show you the progress of what we've done with that. This is the canary, reed canary grass. Oh yeah, so we planted some of the trees in here and these are just kind of slightly taller trees. I wanted to go with slightly taller trees so that we wouldn't hit it with like a mower or anything. I think before the winter closes we might put another large fence around this. This is a red bud a Circus canadensis. Typically, and this is a weeping version, typically deer won't eat this but in feast or famine, in famine times they will eat this. So I'm going to probably put some type of metal fencing around it like I did with these because I knew that these would be tastier at any season. That's a plum I think and we got maybe a type of dogwood right here. One tree didn't come up, that one, you know I planted it and it just never budded out so that one will have to be replaced. So this is just an update on an area where we culled for ten and a half months. We just solarized this area of the meadow and I can link back to a couple videos where we talk about our strategy. This is where the canary reed grass or the reed canary grass was and we've seeded this in and we had 550 different plugs of both grasses and herbaceous perennials that we've plugged into here. We added some of the espoma seconds, so these were bags of soil and substrate that they had sent to us that had been opened or had been sitting outside too long and they couldn't sell them and I said we would gladly take it and we're always in need for more substrate so I put that and Sondra raked it out and we had a really nice base for some of the seeds so we'll have to come back in like 24 months and see what this looks like because I think this is going to look absolutely spectacular. That is my hope. Totally experimental so you could kind of follow around in this experiment and see if it actually works and I just realized that I have maybe two or three more flats of plugs that are meant to go in here and this is already quite densely planted but that's kind of my strategy is to densely plant because when you have a seed bank as ripe as this one, you're going to get seeds in there that you are not expecting or that you may not want so my technique is just plant as much as possible right away and that's not always possible. It's not always in a budget. It's not always sensible. We try. Otherwise you have to do more weeding. Now this area speaking of which, I wanted this to fill out with our native grasses and shrubs and it's taken some time but I want to highlight one of our amazing native grasses the inflorescences start to smell like buttered popcorn at a certain part of the season. Not so much right now but this is Spirobolus heterolepis and these are kind of like these really bunch grass kind of like a little bit of a gumdrop and these are some of my favorite plants. This is Verbena Bampton. Not really showing the flowers quite yet. You can see this one's a little bit more floriferous. Tiny, tiny, tiny little flowers. Very airy in appearance and that's what I love about this area of the meadow home. I'm kind of going for more of that bunchy, airy very misty, mystical kind of look and so I love this garden bed to kind of fill out with plants like that. And these Spiroboluses took a long time to grow out because I just planted them as plugs. The other kind of bit of inspiration that I had within this garden that you won't be able to see because I've just planted it in is that I love kind of low growing plants and so I've started to plant in smaller plants that will spread that get tiny little white flowers and they'll get tiny little white flowers throughout the season so from like let's say May to November and it'll start to look like snow on the ground all season round. I will point out this one. This is another one that we've grown in the meadow. This is Aragrostis spectabilis. Incredible. Again, cotton candy like inflorescence. I mean look at this grass it's stunning and it may just look like regular grass during the season that you want to pull out because you think it's a weed but I think these inflorescences are just understated and if you have a native lawn this is actually a great plant to plant within a native lawn because you can see it doesn't get that high and if you don't neuter your grass meaning if you don't mow it constantly it will get beautiful inflorescences like this. A lot of the shrubs in here are not that big yet but I'm kind of reluctant to plant more ground covers because we're going to get quite beefy plants. This will be a little in the shade so bear with us but I might as well just give you kind of a quick overview Sondra and I recently re-edged a lot of these beds in preparation for landscape edging that has not yet come in so we'll have to do a video on that but these are some of the gardens back here and again I'm seeing some more weeds kind of popping into this garden and that garden and as I shared today on the tour that we gave with folks here is that we put cardboard all throughout but we are not getting that same weed pressure in these two gardens and partially it's because when we dug the edges out we turned the grass over so the grass was on the bottom and the roots were on the top and when you do that it's quite bumpy and so when you put the cardboard over that the cardboard doesn't really sit flat against it and it's very easy for the grass to just basically turn around and migrate up so I'm thinking before the end of the year I may want to get a few more key plants that I know are great spreaders that will spread out throughout here and then I won't have to deal with the grass as much and I have to make that determination probably within the next couple weeks and I think I had a nice insight of what I think would look beautiful here so that's something that's kind of exciting this one is pretty much fully planted in the next week I'm going to under plant with violets and by the way violas are native violets they denature quite quickly so if you're getting violet seeds make sure you put them in the refrigerator before you use them and otherwise if you let them kind of sit around then you probably are not putting viable seed into the garden this is another native grass not to this region but native to New York and this is Mullenbergia it's inflorescence has come out quite late so you can see this is mid-September these are going to be at their height in October believe it or not so you have to wait quite a lot for these grasses to show their true beauty but once they're in here with the matrix of airy flowers I think this is going to look I have a feeling this is going to be one of my favorite gardens this one is primarily the rose and cutting gardens and we're probably going to under plant this with violas as well so that's coming up and this garden we had never edged so I kind of got excited I put the cardboard I put the plants on I put the soil and it's a little bit of a problem because we had to edge later but it wasn't that bad so we've now edged this entirely and I'm looking forward to putting some of the landscape edging here and to be coming soon is we're going to plant this as a massive tulip bed there's going to be some of our native perennials in here we have a lot of geraniums and Jacob's Ladder and a number of others but we're also going to plant a number of tulips so that'll be pretty exciting this bed I've yet to do more plants in here I put some more mulleinbergias in here and then this one is pretty much I think planted up I could probably go with more but I should show you these beautiful little asters in here this one is silky aster Symphyotrichum sericea and look at that beautiful verdigris color almost like silvery white and then this one is a genus that I did not know about Ionactis linea folia so linear leaves linear foliage Ionactis, new one, it's more of a rock garden plant and I've planted it in here some of them have dried out but these are doing extremely well right here in this garden I'm not sure what it is, if it's a light combination of shade and light but fantastic, fantastic plants so my idea was to have this fringe tree and this vitex and some of these salvias grow up but I want some lower plants in here and I think those plants do extremely well we have some lavenders in here Tradescantia, Erigeron, Eichenops this is kind of like borderline Mediterranean garden over here so this one, easy to kind of fill up it's kind of like a comma shape there will be a garden here eventually at some point and a rock garden right behind Sander where he's filming but that's going to be probably next year there's so many cool gardens that we have planned and I get excited about this and I see the vision coming along and I hope you can too I'm not going to knock this over this will be the center of a fountain so that will be maybe next year and then we probably create like a little stone walkway and pathway this way so there's a lot more landscaping that needs to be done here but we weren't planning on doing that this year we weren't planning on doing any of this this year so we were very lucky, we were very fortunate to get some of those soil seconds from Espoma and these gardens came to life and I'm thrilled to see what it's going to look like in a year or two, three years down the line and more so thank you so much, I hope you enjoyed the September tour here, it's the end of summer, I can't believe it and maybe in a couple of months we'll give you a nice fall tour