GORGEOUS July Garden Tour! So Many Blooms in My Tennessee Home Garden!

Hey, you guys, welcome back to my garden. It is my July garden tour and everything is looking so gorgeous. My pinnacle hydrangeas are starting to bloom out. They're still not at their peak, but they are looking so beautiful and I wanna take you around to see the entire garden. I'm gonna try to move quickly this time so my video doesn't get too long. So let's go ahead and get started. All right, you guys, I've never started on this side of the garden before, but we're gonna start over here by the shade garden and work our way over to the cottage garden and then up to the house and through the formal garden and around that way. So if there's certain parts of the garden that you wanna see, make sure that you stick with me because we're gonna get there, but let's go take a look at the shade garden. It's so pretty right now. So this is my shade garden bed. I put this in probably three years ago. I started really small with just a small space right here. I have a bloomstruck hydrangea with these gorgeous pink blooms. And then I've got lots of hostas. This hosta is blooming with these beautiful purple flowers. I love that. I'm just now seeing that for the first time today. This is a Let's Dance Sky View by Proven Winners. This is blooming so good. I love that it has as many flowers on it as it does. This is only a second year in the ground. I have an oak leaf hydrangea that is new last year. I've got some astilbe that has finished blooming, but I still think this looks really pretty even leaving them. This was one that blooms on old wood. That blooms on old wood. So then I have some more of a lime green, low growing hosta right here. Another Let's Dance Sky View hydrangea. I've got some pink impatience throughout the bed. I've got some more hostas, some brunnera. That's a viburnum back there. I might have to move the viburnum because it's not bloomed for me yet, but it started out as a tiny bare root. So maybe I just need to give it more time, but maybe it just needs more sun. Not really sure. But as we go along this way, I believe this right here is the Pop Star by Endless Summer. And then I've got a summer crush right here that only has a couple blooms and a bloomstruck over here. All right, this is the garden house once called the Goat House, but I've changed the name because it's turning into such a beautiful piece here in the garden. But I'm gonna show you real quick. We aren't finished with the porch yet, but we're gonna install some stone along the edge here. So my husband's already installed the concrete board. We just have the stone laying against it to kind of give us an idea of what it's gonna look like. But we will be finishing this project really soon, so stay tuned for that. But I just put all of these containers here on the porch. Even though we haven't stained the porch yet, I wanted it to be really beautiful in the meantime. But I've got these beautiful topiaries here. I've got some heuchera. I've got this container with some ferns and some begonias and coleus. I've got begonia down here, which is really beautiful. So my husband just built this porch back in June, and we did the lattice doors on the Goat House as well. But all of these plants make it look so inviting and like such a grand entrance when nothing else is in there but our goats. So anyways, I just love it. I think it's so beautiful. And actually, we sit out here a lot now. The kids use it when they come outside to play. They play school on it. They just sit and hang out. It stays pretty shaded for a good portion of the day, so it makes it really nice to have just somewhere to hang out. So it's just been such a great addition. I've got a common snowball viburnum right here in this bed that's gonna grow up and be really large and beautiful and give us that beautiful big white bloom in the spring. I've got some hosta, a arborvitae right here, and I've got another arborvitae on this side, so that way they will grow up and frame in the gate that leads to our goat fencing, or our goat field, rather. I've got a little hottie hydrangea right here. This is gonna grow up and be about three to four foot or four to five foot tall and wide, I believe, in this space. I believe this is a silver king euonymus right here. That's gonna give us some evergreen interest. And then I've just got dotted throughout the bed these pink drift roses. I have four of them. This bed is mainly observed in the distance from the house, and so I enjoy being able to see the bright pink flowers, but then we also have these incredible hydrangeas I just planted out last year. I have three of them in this bed, and they were tiny, tiny, tiny little plants, and so they've put on quite a bit of growth. I'm very happy with how they're doing, and I think this is the perfect bed for them with the amount of sun that they get because they are a smooth hydrangea, and so they do need some sun protection, especially in the afternoon. So I've got some balloon flowers I just planted out right here. Beautiful purple bloom. I have some other balloon flowers that I planted out last year that came back really big and beautiful, but they're a slightly different color. They're a lighter shade of purple, but I've got this dappled willow tree right here. Do you see that white dappled looking leaf? And I've got another incredible hydrangea, another drift rose. I've got some blue arrow junipers back here that were in containers. I transplanted them out here because they had completely outgrown their containers. They're not doing super hot, but I'm hoping over time they're gonna just kind of regain their health. I've got another incredible hydrangea, and in front of it, these are the balloon flowers that I was talking about. I need to come out here and deadhead some, but these are such a fun flower. They're absolutely beautiful, but look at this right here. This is what they look like before they bloom. This is the bud, and I think it is so cool. It's like a little marshmallow, and then it will bloom out into this. And so just gorgeous, gorgeous perennial here in Tennessee. And I haven't mentioned that I am in East Tennessee zone 7B. So keep that in mind when you see the flowers in my garden and make sure that you're looking at that for your garden. You need to know what zone you're in so that you know if the plant is going to do well in your area. I have some allium that are just starting to bloom out that are in a drift around the balloon flowers right here. They haven't fully bloomed yet, but they are on their way, and they're gonna be so pretty when they do. I planted those out last year. I think two pots of the allium on clearance, and I divided them up and planted them out, and they're doing really, really good. So I have another drift of my phlox that are starting to get another flush of blooms, but they're not quite there yet. Some nepeta. Here's another little hottie hydrangea. This one doesn't have very many blooms on it at all. I also don't have this bed on drip, and so that could be part of the issue. I do need to get this bed on drip. Most of my flower beds are, but this one is not, so I do have to come out here and hand water. I have this ninebark right here that I planted out last year. Actually, everything in this bed is new. This bed didn't exist last year. My husband had planted some tomatoes along the fence line, and I mulched around those and then continued my mulch and created a flower bed, and so everything here is new, very young flower bed, but this ninebark has put on a tremendous amount of growth. It's already taller than I am, so I love that so much. It gives me that really dark burgundy foliage and is gonna just be such a beautiful piece here in the corner of the garden. I love that so much. This is an angelic juniper, and it's gonna get really big and fill out this space, so I think the icy blue against this red foliage is gonna be a stunner, and this right here is called Forever Goldy. This is a Southern Living Arborvitae. It's gonna give me that lime, evergreen interest, so this is something fun that I stuck out in the garden last month. I found this on Facebook Marketplace. It is my mannequin friend. I want to plant some kind of vining plant up it, maybe a clematis or something, so it can intertwine with the wire. It also has this shelf where I could actually put a plant in here, and I just haven't done anything yet, but I'm excited to have this in the garden. I think it's so fun for a cottage garden. I've got a weigella right here that blooms out in the spring. It didn't give me anything this spring, but in the future it shall, I hope. I've got a Bali Rose of Sharon that is just starting to bloom, some yarrow that is done blooming. This is a spirea that's a really pretty chartreuse green color. I've got a rose right here that doesn't have any blooms right now, but my Japanese beetle swarm is taking over all of my roses currently, but look at this agastache. This is gorgeous, gorgeous. I love this plant, and the pollinators love it too. I've already seen a few pollinators flying around it even early in this morning. I love it. So beautiful. And then I've got three more planted over on this side, but they're not nearly as big as the one behind me. I've got a variegated jazz hands loropetalum back here that's gonna grow up and be really big, and I just think it's a beautiful plant. I've got a encore azalea right here that is gonna be evergreen, and it's gonna end up covering this hose, which is why I put it here, so it can kind of camouflage this situation, but then look at all of my echinacea. I planted out last year along with my agastache. I was so excited when I was able to buy all of these flowers and combine them here in this space, and you can actually go back and watch that video from last fall when I planted all of this out, but these are, I think, a little powwow echinacea. I don't remember the variety of echinacea that this is, but I love that I have two different colors playing off of each other here and how the agastache just works so perfectly because it has that same pink and orange color that the echinacea has. I think that's beautiful. Now, I've had a little bit of a struggle with my rose of Sharon this year. It is probably going on its third year here in the garden, and it's beautiful, and I love it. The blooms are perfection, but it is starting to want to flop on me. Not 100% sure if that's because I haven't been pruning it or if it's getting too much water. I'm not sure what the situation is. I've had to stake it up. I want to do more of a teepee-style trellis for it to be supported by, but I just haven't gotten there yet. I do plan on doing that because I think it'll just look really pretty to have that structure and help hold it up, but, I mean, these blooms are phenomenal, and I think as it continues to grow, it should get stronger and it should hold up better, which, again, I never had this issue last year, and so I'm really sad that it is flopping, but the blooms are gorgeous. Japanese beetles do love it, so keep that in mind, but let's see what else is around the corner. I did a video where I planted all of this gumfrina out not that long ago, and it has really put on a ton of growth, and you can see that it's all different colors. This whole bed right here is an extension of the bed that I had before. The bed I had before came out just right in front of this Rose of Sharon and right in front of the roses back in here, and so I pulled it out quite a bit, and that's how I was able to get these quickfire, little quickfire hydrangeas. I've got three of them here, one, two, and three. They're gonna grow up and be, I think like four to five foot tall and wide, and they're gonna really fill in this corner, and it's gonna be amazing, and I cannot wait for that. I've got this slender hinoki cypress right here that's gonna grow up and be really beautiful, give us some evergreen interest on this corner, and then I just planted out these dahlias this year. They're just a low-growing, really pretty dahlia. They've put on quite a bit of size. I've got these four compact hollies right here by Southern Living. They will give me evergreen interest here in the front of the flower bed, and they stay small and compact, and so I think that's gonna be really beautiful, but again, look at all this gumfrina. It's gonna be so, so full and so pretty really, really soon, and then you can see I've got a knockout rose, this pink knockout rose here in the back on the corner. I've got my butterfly bush starting to bloom out right here. I've got three of these in the bed, and they stay small, and they just have this white bloom that's gonna be really pretty. They're just starting to put on their bloom, so I love these here in the garden. You can see all of my purple vinca that I planted out in the front here. I've got two different varieties of purple. This is a little bit of a darker purple. This is a little bit lighter with a white center on the flower, but they're really starting to fill in. So the vinca has put on a considerable amount of size from when I put them in the ground, and they're gonna just continue to grow and make this beautiful drift through here. I've got this lime green spirea right here that I pulled out from back there whenever I expanded the bed, and it left me this little nook that I put my little fairy house, and I just think this is so cute. It's surrounded by these daisies right now. I do need to cut the daisies back, but that's okay. But I've also got some echinacea that's self-seeded over here, and I love it. I want more echinacea in my garden. It looks so beautiful. I've got a yjilla right here that has bloomed out beautifully, planted that in the garden. It's this red foliage that you see back here, but I've got more daisies, a sting arborvitae that's gonna grow up really big and tall. These right here, I've got four of them throughout my garden in these containers. I bought these earlier this spring, and they were tiny little lollipop trees. They've put on a tremendous amount of growth. They're doing really, really well. I think it's like a Norway spruce globe shape that they put into a standard form, but I love these. I can't wait to see these in the garden this winter. I think that's gonna just make the garden look so much better, having all of this evergreen interest that I've added this year. I've got some geranium right here, three of them, and then this is a purple speedwell that's planted throughout here. We're actually gonna continue to walk around this way and then go down the path, but I've got this ultraviolet purple phlox on each side of the bridge, and I think that looks so pretty because if you can see in the distance behind the arbor, I've got some gladiolas that are blooming that are the same color as these phlox, and so it just kind of pulls it all together. And then we've got this verbena right here. It was blooming its head off. It still has a ton of blooms. It's getting really tall right now, but I've got some daisies that are blooming and mingling in with the verbena. So this butterfly bush I cut way back last year, and it has put on a ton of growth. It gets really big. And then we've got some nepeta right here underneath my limelight hydrangea standard tree. It is about to really look gorgeous really soon, and I cannot wait. I have four of these lining my driveway, and they look phenomenal. I've got this vinca dotted throughout here. It's not grown in nearly as well as the purple vinca that we just saw, but I've got some pink and purple vinca dotted through here. I've got a rosandranium growing. I've got this globe arborvitae for evergreen interest. And then my row of Helen von Stein lambs ear glistening in the sunlight. I think it looks so pretty, and it's lining all four sides of the driveway. Then the same thing is repeated over here on this side. Then I've got some cleome that's self-seeded right here. I just think cleome is so pretty for a summertime flower. This was all grown from seed. There are some varieties that you can buy that are sterile, but I've got a knockout rose on each side of my pathway. I had to prune them considerably just, I don't know, maybe two or three weeks ago now, and they've put on a lot of new growth. All this red is new growth, and I've got some flowers about to bloom. Again, the Japanese beetles are destroying my roses, but hopefully we can get a handle on them. I do try to pick them off every evening if I can. But then I've got another knockout rose right here. So I've got three knockout roses kind of framing my pathways. We will go this direction first. This is my Belinda's dream rose. I have not come out here and deadheaded. It's covered in Japanese beetles, which is gross, but you can at least look at this bloom right here. It's a really beautiful rose. And the fact that it is even blooming right now and has as many blooms as it does, even with the pressure of the Japanese beetles eating it is pretty amazing to me. All right, we will continue this way. I've got my arbor that my husband built for me. We have wisteria growing up over it, the wisteria blooming on it. Earlier this season was so beautiful, but I love just having the foliage too. And then the bridge that we're crossing over, my husband built for me just last month, I believe. So if you saw my May garden tour, the bridge did not exist. We finally have a bridge and I love it. Then we also have this grapevine arch leading into the vegetable garden and it wants to live. There is nothing attaching it to any soil, but it is shooting out more grapevine leaves, which I think is so funny. Right here is a little lime punch hydrangea that I've planted right here. As it grows, I'm gonna have to move my containers because it's gonna need all of this space. And I'll also have to dig up my daisies, but I want the structure and the beautiful flowers of the little lime punch. So I don't mind getting rid of some other things so it can grow and thrive. All right, so now we're gonna head down the path behind me, but this is my other little lime punch hydrangea. This one actually is putting on more blooms and a little bit bigger than the other one I showed you. It's gonna be so, so beautiful to have these two little lime punch hydrangeas flanking the vegetable garden. I just planted out this lambs ear with you guys maybe a month ago, if that, and it is very big already. And is doing so, so well. I have another one right here. So those will welcome you into this pathway of the cottage garden. I've got this Limone Wigella. I have four of these dotted throughout the garden. Yeah, I got another Sting Arborvitae right here that are still very small, but they're gonna get about 15 feet tall but stay only like two foot wide. So these are gonna be spectacular. More Cleome, I've got some Delphinium. This is a Pufferfish hydrangea right here that is about to really show off. I've got a couple of blooms that are nice and white and airy and it's just a beautiful, beautiful hydrangea. And then right behind it is this magnificent beast right here. This is my Vitex tree, also known as a chased tree. I think it's the Delta Blue variety. I have a whole video all about my chased tree if you want to learn all the details on growing one of these. I've got a Loropetalum planted here that's supposed to stay smaller and low to give some red interest into the garden. And then again, I've got my Limone Wigella. I've got some Globe Thistle, Daisies, my Encore Azalea. This is the Carnation variety that is gonna get really nice and large right here in evergreen. I've got a drift of my Lamb's Ear that I just planted out that are looking spectacular. Tons and tons of Foxglove plants throughout here. My little Bunny Light, another my Limone Wigella. I've got another Butterfly Bush right here that looks really pretty framing in this pathway with the purple of the Vitex and then with the purple of the Butterfly Bush. I think this is just such a pretty like, I don't know, it just wants to give you a hug. Or a Coral Rose here, a Bobo Hydrangea that has zero blooms on it. Not sure why it doesn't have any blooms. So maybe it's not getting enough sun. It might be getting a lot of shade in this spot potentially. So we might need to move that somewhere else. We'll see how it does. Maybe it's just a light bloomer. Then we're gonna do a quick little loop and go up that pathway of the cottage garden towards the house. So this whole bed is a new extension. Last year we put it in. I have a little Cripe Myrtle Shrub right here. Another Silver King Euonymus right there. I've got this small little Juniper. I've got some little Euonymus plants dotted along the pathway leading to the vegetable garden right here. This is a Peony that's not blooming anymore. Obviously they only bloom in the spring. This is a Mock Orange that I just planted out with white flowers. It's beautiful. And another Forever Goldy Arborvitae. I've got some Sky Pencil Hollies lining the fence. This is a Canyon Creek Abelia, which I love. I have a thing for some wilder looking shrubs. I just like that extra little whimsy. But I also like the real structured globe shape that maybe a Hydrangea or your globe Arborvitaes give as well. I've got this Eclipse Hydrangea right here. It's got some blooms on it. It's got a deep red foliage. It's a smooth Hydrangea, I believe. And so it's doing pretty good. It was a clearance plant. And so far, I mean, it's doing pretty well. The bench got flipped on top of it, broke some stems because our goats got out. They flipped the bench in order to eat my tree. And so that was fun. I've got some Barberries over here. This is a Vanilla Sunday Hydrangea. It's not got very many blooms on it right now either. So I think it might be getting too much shade, which is a bummer because I was really hoping for some big, beautiful blooms on it this year. It's got a few, so maybe it's just a late bloomer. This whole hedge that you see behind me is my Limelight Hedge of Limelight Hydrangeas. They are about to bloom out. They are looking so fabulous. They're huge and gorgeous. This is an apple tree that you see right here. You can see just how massive these plants are. And my gardens are only four years old. I think this is only their third year in the ground. They were giant last year too. So the Limelight Hydrangea is a fantastic shrub. If you are wanting to make your garden look mature really, really fast because they grow so fast and give gorgeous, huge blooms right from the start. So happy with these. I mean, these are probably six foot tall or more right now, six and a half foot tall, and they're gonna continue to grow. And I'm just tickled to death with my hydrangea hedge. Now here we are on the other side of the cottage garden. This is the other side of the chaste tree. You can see the coral rose back there. I've got these beautiful, these beautiful phlox are starting to flush back out. I even have a little foxglove blooming out right behind it too. These are probably my favorite phlox that I have. They are absolutely stunning. Spectacular color, re-bloom is fantastic. I love these so much. I don't have a lot of blooms left on my gladiolas. A lot of them broke and flopped and broke in the big rainstorm that we had a couple of days ago, but I love the color of this gladiola with the purple chaste tree behind it. I just think these colors together are so fabulous. Absolutely love these. I do struggle with my gladiolas flopping pretty bad. I don't think I put them deep enough in the ground. So I might need to dig them all up and plant them deeper. Do any of y'all have recommendations about growing gladiolas? Let me know, because I need to kind of figure something out here. I've got another bobo hydrangea that is putting on some blooms right here, some more cleome. And now let's go up towards the house. So this is the front of the house. And again, you see that I have the driveway lined with the Helen von Stein lambs ear. I've got my limelight hydrangea standards on each side of the walkway leading up to the house. And then I've got these huge shrubs. They're not actually shrubs. They're perennials, but these are baptisia. And they get gigantic, which I think is so stately and so beautiful, even when they're like this. But in this spring, early, early spring, they're one of the first things to bloom with these big, beautiful purple spikes, and they are spectacular. I love seeing these come up every spring. But then I've got nepeta dotted through here. I have a little bit of gara. I've got my globe arborvitaes. I've got some Russian sage, more baptisia, some salvia lining the ground, some sweet alyssum that is starting to grow in, more baptisia. And then I have some petunias that my mother-in-law gave me, self-seeded right here under this baptisia. And I love it. I do a lot of sweet alyssum this way, but my sweet alyssum didn't do quite as well this year for some reason. I mean, it is starting to fill in some. You can see it right here. But man, the purple petunias popping out right here. If it was dotted throughout, I think it would be spectacular. But then I've got my two summer crush hydrangeas on each side of the bed leading to the porch. This one is doing better than the other one. That one doesn't have as many blooms, isn't quite as big, but oh, it's so beautiful. I love this. I would give it a hug if I could. I think this is so, so pretty. I've got some purple, but it also still has have some pink blooms. It might all end up turning to purple, but right now it's still kind of in that transition stage. So it's just magnificent, gorgeous. I've got some Russian sage popping out behind them. And I just love that. Let's go look at the formal garden. Actually, let's stop right here and look at this beast. I think this is so cool how this has turned out. I've got this gold euonymus in the centerpiece. This is evergreen. But then I planted my petunia seeds, there are petunias that I grew from seed around it. And look how they are performing. I think this is so fun. I know a lot of people like to have these really tight, compact mounds of petunias like you see with your supertunias and stuff like that. But I love this old style petunia that has these really long vining stretches with the blooms on them. I just think it's so fun. All right, we're gonna head out this direction. I've got my line of globe arborvitaes right here. These are the tater tot varieties. If you can see behind me, we have this truckload of rocks. That's because we are doing so many projects around the property, building stone walls, expanding flower beds. All my flower beds are lined with the stone. And we're gonna be putting stone on the side of the porch on the garden house. So we are using stones everywhere. That's why we have this huge load of stones. So this is the formal garden. We just installed this last fall, early spring. And I've got my row of tater tot arborvitaes here in the front lining the walkway to the porch. But then I also have them on this side of the walkway with compact hollies lining the beds as well. I've got white drift roses on each corner. I've got a weeping cherry tree over here. I've got three little hottie hydrangeas in this flower bed. And they're doing better than the ones over here. So not sure what the difference is. Maybe these are just getting a lot more sun and they like that compared to those over there. I've got some liatris that is blooming out. But then I just planted out all of these angelonia that you see, all the pink that you see popping up periodically. That would be the angelonia that I picked up from Creekside Nursery when I went to the Southern Living Plant Collection event two weekends ago now, I think. But then I also have some Rock and Play in the Blue Salvia I just planted out. These are all annual, so I'm hoping they really pick up and grow and become really big statements while the rest of the flower bed is filling in because it is a brand new flower bed. But I've got climbing roses on the wall and they're obviously not in bloom right now. They do re-bloom a little bit here and there, but I've got a little lime hydrangea that is starting to grow and put on some blooms here in the corner. I put that there because I have another one over here that has been here since last spring. So this is its second year in the ground. It's way bigger than the one I just planted out, but they are beautiful and it'll frame in the courtyard. I've got my topiaries right here that are so, so pretty. I had these in containers, transplanted them into the ground this spring because I've got two more topiaries back behind me on each side of the greenhouse. And so now we have these four topiaries that all look the same. And I just think it's so pretty and draws your eye back towards the greenhouse. We just added the gingerbread trim to the top of the greenhouse a couple of weeks ago. My husband did that for me. I am loving my window boxes this year. They are so pretty. I put wave petunias. My pink petunias here are wave petunias. And then I've got the Supertunia Bordeaux is my purple petunias. I got a couple of potato vines in here. They are performing so well and I love this. Last year I did the bubblegum petunias by Proven Winners. And I wanted to kind of see how each variety performed. And the wave petunias I feel like have done just as well as the bubblegum petunias. I think they actually might even be a better option to go with the Supertunia Bordeaux because they're not overtaking the Supertunia Bordeaux. And I like being able to see the purple. The bubblegum petunias can be very aggressive and completely take over other flowers if you're not careful. And so these are just so beautiful. I did the same combination here in this container with my Jane Magnolia tree. I am gonna put the Jane Magnolia tree in the ground this fall. And I just have it in this container for now just because we weren't ready to actually put it in the ground. I've got these beautiful white wedding hydrangeas right here. These are a paniculata or panicle hydrangea. These are by Southern Living, I believe. These are the white wedding. They're gorgeous blooms and are doing really well right here. I think they're gonna be so spectacular as they continue to grow and fill out. This is their second year in the ground. I've got a couple of compact hollies on each side of the greenhouse as well to bring that in from the courtyard or from the formal garden. I wanted to carry that look on. And then I've got this panicle hydrangea standard. It is in the tree form so that way you can still see the stone wall. And I love this. I picked it up on clearance last year. So beautiful. But then I have my row of incredible hydrangeas back here. We just put all of these in the ground this spring. But let's go around to the other side and look at them over there because they're even more beautiful on the other side. So this is the other white wedding hydrangea blooming out right here. But then all of my incredible hydrangeas back here on the hillside. And we've got the little stone wall back behind them. You can see my husband's tractor up on the hill and all of this clay soil. This is the project we've been working on. And we are gonna turn this hillside into this. So it will continue on all the way down the way. We're gonna put mulch down, more incredible hydrangeas lining this area. And we're just in the trenches with this project right now. Then we're also gonna tear up all of the grass that you see right here. We're gonna put in some flower beds and have a nice pea gravel walkway through here. It's gonna be so gorgeous, so classy, so relaxing and soft. But we just did, I say we, my husband. I didn't build this wall, my husband built this wall. But we have a video showing exactly how he built this retaining wall all the way down towards the gas tank. And you need to go watch that video. If you wanna see how to build and install a stone wall like this, that looks like it's been here for 50 years or more, go watch that video. He did a phenomenal job and so, so, so happy and thankful to have a husband that does things like that because this would have been a very expensive project, I'm sure, if we had had to hire it out. But again, all of this is gonna be flower bed along the stone wall. I've got a opening day viburnum right here. But then I've got this row of emerald green arborvitaes that will end up growing and touching and covering the gas tank so you don't see that. Over here on this side, I've got these incredible hydrangeas that are going to grow up right here. So from this view, you can see the greenhouse back here behind me, the incredible hydrangeas lining this side of the bed. And then once we have more hydrangeas lining where the clay soil is all the way down beyond the greenhouse, it's just gonna be this beautiful walkway of huge white blooms and it's just gonna be so phenomenal. I cannot wait to continue with this project and see how it looks in the end. We have so much rainwater that sits in this pathway and it's just so marshy and gross. My husband is gonna come in with his tractor and dig and put in a French drain to redirect all of that water and then we'll have our pathway and all of that. So it's gonna be gorgeous. Now this whole area over here is brand new, brand spanking new. We just did this over the weekend. This whole flower bed that you see right here did not exist and my kitchen window is right there. I want to look out of my kitchen window and see gorgeous flowers, gorgeous gardens. And so this is going to be the start of giving me that view that I have been yearning for. So we have all of these plants over here on the porch that we are going to be planting out in this area. We went ahead and mulched because we're gonna have some 90 degree days here soon and I didn't wanna put the plants in the ground quite yet. I am gonna lay them out and kind of see how the sun is hitting because we took out a tree right here as well. And so I just wanna make sure that I'm placing plants properly so they get the shade they need or the part shade or the sun because it's a whole mixture the way the sun is on this backside of the house. So let's go look at one more thing and then we're gonna call it a day. So these are the existing hydrangeas that I have here outside the kitchen window. I did move my blushing bride hydrangea out here in this container because I want to put it in the flower bed. It is gorgeous, gorgeous, soft pastel pink but then all of these hydrangeas that you see in the ground this is the Popstar hydrangea by Endless Summer and I love these hydrangeas. And then look how that bed is going to look, the shape, everything is gonna be so beautiful. Now this is the corner of our porch area. I've got a bloomstruck hydrangea here, a bloomstruck hydrangea right here. Framing the walkway leading down this direction. We still need to add another stone here because we did expand all of this flower bed last fall. I've got the Bobo hydrangeas all right there in front of my knockout roses and then I have a row of the bloomstruck hydrangeas going around this curve that you see right here beside me. So these Bobo hydrangeas I just planted out last fall and the knockout roses were already here but I expanded the beds, I pulled out some things that had been planted here prior to and I've got these Perfecto Mundo azaleas right here in the front. They aren't doing much yet but they will be really beautiful and big and give me some really pretty pink blooms in the spring. Azaleas will give me some evergreen interest in this bed as well but I've also filled it with some vinca. You can see the pink vinca throughout here and then also some gumfrina dotted throughout and then my Roseanne geranium that you see right here with the Russian sage. So all of this is just looking so pretty. It's gonna get really full and really beautiful and I am so excited for how things are looking. All right guys, that is it for the garden tour. I don't know how quick I was. There was so much to see and it's all so beautiful. Thank you guys for joining me and I hope you all will like and subscribe to the channel. Go back and watch some older garden tour videos and I've got all sorts of videos all about gardening, DIY projects in the garden, adding garden structures, renovating the greenhouse, renovating the garden house, adding stone walls, so much going on in the garden here on the property and I hope you all will join the journey. It's been so much fun and I will see you guys next time. Happy gardening.