Flowers Blooming All Summer? Here's How

I am so so so so stupid before we went to France I was rushing to do so many things and then I forgot to deadhead my fox squirrel and all of them have produced the seeds and I think they're dying oh my goodness oh well I'm gonna collect the seed for you guys then and I collect the seed from the bottom here because the bottom always ripe before the top you can see the top here still green they don't have seed yet and in the middle they're probably developing the seed so the seed might not be viable for germination yet but the bottom is you know ripened and they're ready but if you have a new flower bed that you wanna grow foxglove you can just cut the whole stem like this and then just shake it then the seed will spread everywhere okay because I'm gonna collect a lot of seed I'm gonna do this instead just cut it off the whole thing cut the top off then I'm gonna just drop the seed upside down like in the mesh bags like this then just shake it holy moly now I can open foxglove flower look at this guy they are dying ah the leaves are getting yellow and brown this one I deadheaded before I go to France look at that right and see the flowers producing you see because I deadhead that one the leaves also looks a lot healthier than the one that I did not deadhead still look green tada not only the petunias that get haircut I also get haircut too it's a little shorter this time because it was my fault I told a barber that I wanted my hair to be short but you know it turned out that it's a little shorter than I expected but I am healthy and I am happy I am well fed so my hair gonna grow fast too so I'm not gonna worry about it and that is the same thing for our petunias look at them they grow back so fast you see the babies trying to grow from the stems see that's all new shoots and this is just one week you know they look healthy and happy already now there's a million of baby shoots trying to grow this one struggling because of the sunflowers no I thought was a single single flower but look at all the look all the babies I just realized you see this planter get that very same irrigation system but because of the sunflowers the soil dry very fast this one is unbelievable send out so many flowers already you see the soil here very moist because we got rainstorm the other day and our petunia really love the rain so again it is very important to keep you petunias hydrated during the summertime especially on a hot day whenever they get heatwave you want to make sure that you soak them with a lot of water and now I am back from vacation I'm gonna make sure of that and there is one more thing that you can give a little boost to your petunia to make sure that they continue to bloom beautifully throughout the summer until fall this might be a little controversial and I might got people unsubscribe to my channel but I'm gonna say it this stuff is really really really bad if you use it without precaution if you overly use it all over the place all over your garden because it has it's yeah it's it's not how can I say it's not natural it is synthetic it is you know something that it's like medicine you know it is not food okay if you want to be healthy you wanna eat fruit you wanna eat vegetables you wanna eat healthy food and you can take supplemental vitamin you know only as needed only like from time to time not all the time so same thing as plant too I don't use this synthetic fertilizer a lot at all I only use it to fertilize some of those seedlings that need you know additional support and also for this petunia because they yeah they really need a lot of nutrient and this time of the year I treat them with synthetic fertilizer about once or twice you know just to give them a little help to make sure that they continue to bloom you can see here this one is very old because I didn't use it a lot at all and you know blue thing you know get to the bottom I'm gonna take it out see this is probably two years old because I don't use them very often at all so I'm gonna mix it back usually when you get it from store you know they should look like this but now because you know I left it alone for too long need to remix them and I'm gonna use about you know this much put in the watering can fill with water also mix mix mix I am making a little holes here because I want to make sure that the liquid fertilizer can you know go into the soil not drain on the side of the soil because over time like you know after the roots has grown a lot and because of the heat because of the compaction in the potting mix you know the water can drain like right to the bottom so I want to make sure that the liquid fertilizer kinda stay in the soil this will help aerate the soil I mean the potting mix you know after it got compacted now I'm gonna water it right to the soil I don't water the leaves or the flowers I water the soil the potting mix okay and this one because of the sunflower roots you see the soil is very very compact look very very compact so I'm gonna do a lot of pinching and I'm gonna give this one a little extra liquid fertilizer because the nutrient has been depleted from the you know sunflowers a little more you might have been told that we should feed our petunias every three days every five days seven days ten days two weeks you know there's no rules at all I only feed my petunia with liquid fertilizer whenever I really have to and this is all I give to them this season since you know I started them because I have given this planters this petunia very high quality compost potting mix fertilizers okay from the very beginning when I planted them so I don't have to feed them with this liquid fertilizer at all but I am doing it because I want to make sure that next they grow faster for next week because there's very important person coming to visit my garden do you remember in spring I cut this lantana very very hard Wow whoop backfill a little bit with this homemade compost when you move the plants from indoor to outdoor they're gonna get you know some leaf damage like this from the Sun and they're gonna shred all these leaves and then they're gonna send out little new leaves and eventually you know they're gonna look full and rush again and then they're going to bloom for you I'm gonna put this one a little harder this one look really sad but believe me in just a few week they're gonna come back this stem pretty weak cut it off you can see the new growth here is a good sign guys were yelling at me saying like crane why are you killing your lantana but look at it now haha and look at this one unbelievable I saved a lot of money by saving this lantana you know by over winter them inside in winter time then took them back in spring trim them very very hard but at the same time I repot them give them high quality compost fertilizer and new soil new potting mix look at them now and hummingbirds really love this guy our sweet Williams have produced the seeds yay and the smartest gardener like me going to collect the seed and that's also because I am cheap I don't want to spend money on seed next year and also I wanna collect the seed and I can share with you guys too just put the flowers in the back check it check it then the seed that have ripened will fall into the back like this if you remember I cut down the sweet William on the right side back to the ground produce a lot of new leaves and become very very bushy like in early spring some of them have rebloom but stem is like very very short which is okay and the one that I did not cut back doesn't look that bad at all but of course because they are producing seeds they look you know kind of brown and kinda little ugly but when you look at them from far away I don't think they look that bad at all but I am going to cut them all to tidy up the garden here we go see the one that I just cut back look a lot less healthy than the one that I cut back a while ago because the plants use all the energy to produce flowers and seed they look pretty exhausted in comparison to the one that you know I cut back the flowers a while ago and a few weeks ago I also repot this sweet William because I really love this color and I want to isolate them for producing the seed of this color however some of them doesn't make it because I think they're probably like two years old you know they're done this one is reblooming so I'm gonna leave this to produce the seed then I'm gonna collect the seed separately from the other color there's two are trying to grow back we'll see what happened this part is totally dead because see the stem is pretty old I kinda knew from the beginning well you win some you lose some now the one in the front right there totally dead look at that they are done totally done but there's a lot of seeds here to collect seem like pretty brutal to my garden and seem like I'm taking away the plants the flower from my garden however look at this guy this is four o'clock yeah four o'clock flowers they're going to bloom later in this spot and that's the next trick for me to have flowers in your garden blooming forever to have to always have the flowers in your garden is to interplant the flowers together different kind with something that bloom in different time of the year just you know plant them mix in together I have this sweet William right that bloom in spring and now I have this loggia coming and this I forget the name also echinacea right here I'm gonna chop this up and it will become you know mulch slash compost on this spot kinda look messy but this guy is gonna grow big you know it's gonna block the whole thing here this will also help preserve water in the soil which is again beneficial for our flowers you can see here I use like garden scraps the old stem stick dead plants to mulch they will eventually dry and look like a straw like that doesn't look that ugly at all you're probably asking Crane how do I know this is going to work believe me it's going to work and I have done this probably two or three times already I have been saving sweet William seed from my garden from last year the one that I go here I save the seed from last year okay and then I sow the seed around like maybe August or September and then I plant them out in fall and then I let them go dormant in winter time and then you know they start coming back in spring and then they bloom now I mean in like late spring and then I save the seed again like this however this time I'm going to share the seed with you guys instead of keeping them all for myself you can store your seed in an organza bag like this okay or paper bag but you don't want to store your seed in plastic bag because it will build up humidity inside a plastic bag because plastic bag does not allow air to go into the seed and when the seed got too humid you know they will not be viable for germination they will kind of you know kind of rot oh my goodness a lot of see we have here nothing when I eat when I eat come on come on feet come come on this summer Finn getting very close to us especially Jason if you know Jason sitting here he wouldn't mind to come at all like it one more thing that you can do to make sure that your flower garden looks beautiful all summer long is to prune them strategically when I plant this garden in fall I expect that this garden will be about this low just like this little guy you know I just lay low like that however I made a mistake by adding this perennial sunflowers I know they're gonna get this tall because you know when I I have I transferred them from the other spot of my garden and that spot has poorer soil so they'd stay low but when I put it here it's just too happy to be here so they get a little too tall ah look at them Wow this is what I want kind of short and you know mingling hugging each other something like that something like that side you know not the other side that the sunflowers get very very tall but I'm not going to complain because in a few weeks our sunflowers going to bloom very beautifully for example this budding verbena bonariensis flop on that walkway like this it looks too messy too like an inorganized so what I do again just cut it off from the walkway cut it off yay now I have this beautiful flowers and again when you cut off this the plant will have more energy to produce more bloom and also to make more compact to be more compact too this time of the year you want to focus on maintaining your wildflower garden I know we creating wildflower garden and they can be wild but I believe me you don't want it to be too wild you want it to organize a little bit you want to keep pulling weed you want to keep deadheading you wanna you know giving pruning the dead stuff from the garden and your wildflower garden going to look a lot more beautiful this is pokeweed a real native flowers in New Jersey it supports so many wildlife and butterfly and whatever but I'm not letting it grow in this garden because they're going to spread so so bad I will let it go on the other you know spot of my property but not in this garden because I want I don't want it to choke all the other flowers you know I mean this poor little salvia and this this flowers you know suffering because this guy like kinda choke them you know look at that oh I'm sorry now this guy flopping because it didn't get full Sun because of this you know pokeweed so I'm gonna give it a little support by fighting you know maybe like dead stick from my hydrangeas oh my god this thing's so bad find some dead stick from my hydrangeas oh here this one is perfect cut it I'm gonna put this in the ground right here and ship give this little guy a little support there you go this poppy dog on the side way I mean walkway this one's so bad so I hate it after pulling the weed especially the pokeweed it will allow more air more sunlight to this garden this is forget-me-not and they drop the seed and those are forget-me-not babies now they get more light more air for them to develop this summer and will bloom beautifully in next spring my salvia supposed to look lush and healthy like that that one got choked by the pokeweed now after they getting sunlight and they don't have to compete for nutrient and water from the pokeweed they will develop and then they will bloom again beautifully later in the season our white light sunflowers has bloom they are the cutest thing oh my gosh this one take a little bit more time to bloom but because I grow them in the cut flowers row with a lot of nutrient compost fertilizer and water they are going to develop so much bigger blooms and Steve sunflower has bloom too this one is the most expensive variety is developed by Steve near sunflower breeder and he take years like years I think more than 10 years to develop this variety I regret that I should have fertilized them and give them more compost so they bloom more beautiful like what I did last year I'm sorry actually the trick or maybe the tip or maybe my my take okay on having flowers bloom summer long is to never give up never never give up just keep doing it keep trying it observing it then improve the next time or try new things just keep growing these are two years old hollyhock that survived winter last year this year is not the best year for hollyhock for me at all look at the flowers they are so cute yep look at this guy that from last year see see that's the old stem from last year and this year is sent out new stem from the bottom from fall last year to early spring this year I have lost so many groundhogs to the hollyhocks but I never give up I just keep sowing new seed and then keep planting them keep taking care of them that's the hollyhock that I started in early spring this year after I lost a lot of them in fall it's so healthy but because I just started in spring they're not gonna bloom this year which is totally okay because they're gonna bloom beautifully next year and plus I have other flowers are blooming around it I forget this name after verbena bonarensis gooseneck blue strife and that's the snapdragon flopping so bad because I forget to stake them dahlias are coming up more dahlias that's a whole big batch of sinews every blue hydrangeas that's not the variety name I just come up with that unbelievable whoa whoa wow color lilies color lilies cosmos you can have your flowers bloom forever by allowing them to self-seed this is the four o'clock that it self-seeded from last year a lot of them are coming up in between the bushes for annuals cut and come again flowers like cosmos these guys like sinews like dahlias you have to keep deadheading them period it's a requirement you have to believe me on this one if you let them go to seed they will really stop blooming you really really need to deadhead them okay you can try maybe leave one of the plant you know leave them alone let them go to seed and the other plant that you have you can no keep deadheading them and you see the result in the end of the season I'm sorry I can't let you go to seed bye bye see this one have to go so the energy go to this one and will bloom beautifully beautifully later actually I should bring clippers if you're running out of this okay but it's gonna leave this sticky stem like this doesn't look pretty I don't know Wow a lot here bye bye this is bad and again if you forget to deadhead them maybe you collect the seeds a lot of them here and this will be beautiful flowers next spring I hope I I hope I get to share some of the seeds with you guys too I might do the raffle in the next video so please stay tuned and before I go I wanna this is my last advice for this video okay you want to think about your garden next spring in summer okay let me refresh that in summer you wanna think about your garden next spring you wanna think about the specialty beautiful double ruffle tulips and daffodils you know that you wanna that you want to have them bloom in your garden next spring you wanna start looking for the bulbs okay and order them they will the company will ship to you in fall and then you bury them in fall and have beautiful flower garden in spring you wanna think about the perennial flower seed that you wanna grow something like rubeccia right because you're gonna order them now sow them in fall plant them in fall then have them bloom this time of the year in summer you wanna think about the discount plant at the garden center there will be a lot of discount perennial plants you can buy them divide them or whatever then you know bury them in your garden they will look bad they will look sad but next next year they will bloom beautifully for you you wanna think about maybe cleaning up your garden you know making some space for next year and my promise I promise you this is my last advice the last thing is to enjoy the flowers that are blooming in your garden now don't think about the past don't think about future just enjoy the moment enjoy whatever is a blooming in your garden all right the plane is coming which is very oh my god every time every time all right I'm not refilming this all right you guys please have a wonderful beautiful summer this year and enjoy the moment bye bye love y'all