Fixing up Storm Damaged Garden

What are you doing? I don't think you should go... You should probably stay inside. Come on. Get back inside. Come on. Good boy. Hey. What's up, gardening friends? Jeff here. This is what we do if you're doing well. I'm... flustered. We had a little microburst blow through. Took those things down. Ripped the crown off one of the gasea palms. The wind came through. You can almost see where it blew through. I'll show you another time. Up there, shredded some... shredded? Laid down some of the plants. Like, did a swirl through here. Bananas are fine. I don't care about the bananas. Screw them. They'll be fine. This is a problem. It blew the plant right out of the pot. Not good. Luckily, it's not going to be too hot this week. Oh, that was good. Did you see that mama bird just sweater? So, I was gonna let this all wait until tomorrow and start filming tomorrow because everything's still wet and I don't want to mess with big heavy things that are wet. But this hydrangea tree had a robin's nest in it and the nest is broken. There's a big hole in the bottom but baby bird's still hanging out right there. She's big. Fledgling size. So, I think I'm gonna go ahead and pick this tree up and, you know, throw the gloves on, put the baby bird back in that nest. Might have to do some repairs on the nest. And, uh, I don't think there's anything. There were nests. This was... had nests too. There's two nests in here but I don't see any babies. I don't know. I don't see them. But I hear a very angry mama bird. So, that's what's going on right now. Uh, theme of this video is gonna be trying to get the backyard put back together. Could be way worse. Could be much, much, much worse. The big palms are still standing. House is good. Just, um, some stuff to pick up and a lot of smashed plants. I'm gonna go get help because when I pick this up that baby bird's gonna run off and stuff and I need to do this quick because mama bird, she's mad. She's mad but I can't leave baby birds sitting on the ground that close to the pool and predators and, you know. It's close to fledgling size so I'm somewhat tempted to be like, well, maybe just leave it there for a few days. But that just... it's so close to the pool. That baby bird. It's gonna hop around. It's gonna get... it'll die. It just doesn't seem like the right thing to do. I'm gonna try and get that taken care of and then, um, tomorrow. So, yeah. Yep. Okay, next day. Apparently, I filmed that first chunk of video. Everything up to this point in 4k. That may have affected the resolution of this video because I'm not doing the whole entire long-ass video in 4k. Do that with the garden tours but I don't do that so much with the weekly videos anymore. The money that goes into the extra storage for those things, it's insane. That was garden tours like 120 gigs. I can't be doing that every video. There's no way. All right, update. Since robins are in the tree, we got that tree up yesterday pretty much right after I put the camera down. Phone, really. Camera ain't doing much these days. Let's get used to the phone in the summertime. It's seemingly okay. There is definitely a struggle. Mama bird was flying around making a whole bunch of noise. She wanted to kill us but ultimately got that baby up in the nest and then just ran. Got the hell out of there and said, we're not gonna be in the backyard for the rest of the evening. Like, we need to let them settle. And last night when I let Turbo out, I snuck over and very, very, very quietly took a peek and baby was in the nest. So that's good. It's their last night anyways. This is still an issue. Haven't really come up with a plan of action for this quite yet. Okay, and yeah, there she is. There's baby. Baby's in the tree. So that's good. She was just so close to fledging. I was like, you can't just leave her. Because, or him, it doesn't matter. But just hop into the pool. That was my main concern. And predators. But it was more the pool. I was like, oh, come on. This poor, poor bird. Not far away from being able to fly away. I got these for Turbo and my nephew. They have at Walmart. They're little robot fish. I don't know why it's going. When they get wet, they turn on. They're pretty convincing though. Right? I mean, you know, if you would think that there would be a gigantic clown fish in a swimming pool, then you'd fall for it. Turbo loves them. And it's one of Turbo's favorite new things. Right, Turbo? This is your fish. Where'd your fish go? You made me zoom in and then you leave. Go get your fish. Okay. Hey, I'm not going to beg you to get in the pool. Not when you're dry. I'm fine with that. You can stay dry. I should have picked this up yesterday before I did the thing with the hydrangea. I just wasn't thinking. Oh, the other thing, um, started with the negativity yesterday. It was just, it was a lot to take in. I've had to deal with stuff like this before. Not quite to this magnitude, but I'm pretty sure I've had more broken potteries than this at one time from storms. Think that tornado we had last year had more broken pottery. And, uh, like I said, as long as the house and everyone's okay, the plants are like, eh, you know, they'll be fine. Then is what it is kind of thing with the plants. But the vanilla strawberry hydrangeas that fish, um, I don't really see myself replacing these. The cost of them has skyrocketed. Cheapest I've seen at the nurseries in the last few years was like $3.50 for those tall standards. And I usually see them between like, uh, well, I saw one for $300 this year, so that's good. But all the ones I've seen have been between $350 and $600. So, you know, if something happens to that tree, I ain't getting a new one. This is a good time to do a mealybug check. The mealybugs like to get up here into the crowns and it's hard to have a good look at that when these are down on the ground. Yeah. All right. I think this is okay. I didn't even fall over all the way. So this one, this should be relatively easy. I can get this underneath my shoulder and just, you know, squat up. Yeah. Should have done that yesterday. But once I handled that hydrangea tree, I just, uh, panicked and ran inside because that robin was freaking out and I didn't want to do anything that was going to really disrupt their flow. Wanted mama and baby bird to get back together. It looks like I set this down on top of the drip, doesn't it? Did I? Is it on top of the drip? Oh, just barely. Okay. That's easy enough to scoot. That was easy enough. Let's see what the destruction's like over here. Oh, that's just a hibiscus tree. Picks that guy up. Smash ginger. No. Oh no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Shoot. Oh, I waited years for this to get big enough and provide some privacy and then just, it's all right. It's all right. Get a stake on it. It has a stake. Get another stake on it. slowly bring it back up over the course of a couple weeks. Man, this poor needle plummet's going through it. And the chitalpa. Did this break? Yep, that pot broke again. It's been years. If you've been watching this channel for a long time, and you've been hearing me talk about how I needed something to fill in this space, I planted that limelight prime there three years ago, and it finally got big enough to fill in that space. I can see through into their kitchen again. I'm sure they're just as unhappy about it as I am. I just don't see myself being able to pick this up, but I haven't tried, but it seems like it'd be a very bad idea. I should probably wait. I think my brother-in-law might come over and give me a hand, because this is very heavy. Oh, look at that. It's got a big inflorescence on it. Well, that's gonna be cool, and very messy, but it's gonna be cool. I was set up to film a video yesterday, and then had to leave. My microphone stopped working. I don't know what that's about. I'm not mic'd up for this video. I don't get it. I don't understand the technical difficulties with the microphones this year. Never used to be an issue. Oh, right. So this is a standardized hibiscus tree, and I had it sitting on top of it. Just a little container right there. Not really big enough, but been fine up until now. But, you know, it blew over. It looks fine. I don't think anything's wrong with it. Oh, look at that. Love the yoders. I think it's Yoder Yellow, the name on that one. How are you looking? Oh, this isn't so bad. So I was really concerned about this, and then got totally distracted by the hydrangea tree and baby robin thing, that I abandoned this. Really, it's one of the first things I probably should have picked up, because I thought that this poor thing just got smashed. This is my favorite hydrangea tree that I have out here. Not tree. This is not even a hydrangea. Hibiscus, the coelitini. Aren't those flowers just absolutely beautiful? That pink and orange, the coral, the doubled nature of it. I actually think I'd prefer if it wasn't that almost double flower, but not fully double flowered, but still. Very pretty. That table's wonky. I had this sitting on that table, but it's got a lean to it. See what that's about. Oh, oh, it's just, it's just bent cast iron, that's all. Well, we'll call it art. Wonder if the other one's like that. Oh, no. No, my favorite table. Shoot. Oh, and my furniture. The furniture's broken, too. Okay. Is there gardener's insurance? Is that a thing? Is it a thing? I'm sure if it were, they wouldn't pay out, and it'd be a total scam, but I feel a little bit better right now if it were a thing and I had it. Those tables, they're from Pier One. Circa 2007, I believe. I got those with my mom on a little shopping trip. We haven't been able to do those in a long time, so I had some sentimental attachment. Still have one that's seemingly intact and okay, and I don't know if I'll be able to salvage this, but I'm pretty sure I can salvage the tiles and do something with it. That's a shame. Almost 20 years had that table. So what broke the table? The pot. Was it the pot, maybe? I bet the pot came down and hit it and rolled, maybe. Huh. I don't know. That's really all I can make of it. Get this. No, I can't set that there, Fred. Plenty of collodion bulbs in there. Yeah, I'll put this right here. That'll help fill in around that squished ginger. Some flattened curcumas down here. Oh, those don't look great, do they? Is what it is. Anything that needs some recovery time will end up over here. The recovery garden's getting bigger and bigger and bigger. Looks like that sun patient's okay. How's this one doing? Ooh, that Brugmansia might be, that might be done. They're fast growers, so even if it has to start over, then it'll be okay, just a setback of like one year. It's not awful. The timing is just so odd. This isn't normally something you have to deal with in July. This is when everything is usually peaking. It's like that Brugmansia that's unfortunate because it's covered in buds and it's really starting to put on some size. So it might be fine. I haven't gone over there. I doubt it's fine. I imagine it's probably broken and squished to pieces. Gonna need to put on gloves when I mess with that. There's gonna be a lot of bad sap over there depending on the container, yeah. Yeah, the container's still upright, but I don't see the plant. So that tells me that it's probably not in very good shape. Shoot, shoot, shoot, shoot. Pick up as many of these as I can. Hmm, well, oh well, how are you doing? Okay, all right, a little misshapen, but I think it'll be all right. Really? This needs to get into a larger container anyways. This isn't gonna last in this hanging basket much longer. This is actually the time to probably repot it and cut it back so it can fill back out and bush out. When they get to that size, if you just miss one watering by like a day, they shrivel up and they don't come back. All right, let's come in here and pick this one up. Nope, yep, just as I thought. Can't pick it up with one hand. Probably can't pick it up with two. When we do this, this is gonna come back against the house. That could do some damage. So we have to figure that out. This is not, it's not something small. I can't just maneuver this easily. Do you know what I mean? And I feel like pushing this, like if I were to try and lift it now, if I had other people were to lift this right up, that is enough weight that that could actually do some damage there. So I have to figure out a way to pull it away from the house. Might need to grab some two by fours or a wedge or something. I'm not that much in a hurry, even though there's a lot of smashed stuff over here, including the needle palms, to pick this up, because I would like to figure out a way to keep it from falling over again before I bother picking it up. But I don't really know how to pull that off. I can maybe put some anchors in the ground and some straps, but with a tree this size, I don't know what that's gonna do. I think then I would end up just having really dangerous straps on some anchors that could rip out and fly out and potentially really hurt somebody at any moment. Umbrella looks fine, I think. Still go up and down the way you're supposed to, because it does look a little crooked. Yeah, no, this isn't fine. So the top part's broken. This is supposed to have a little, cute little pop top on it. Oh, it still has the pop top. Not moving quite like it should, but hey, it's still moving. That's what matters. It's still going up and down. That's good. Yeah. Good. Cheap umbrella survived the storm. Okay, so the rest of this, these two big pieces, this may group projects. We'll probably just come back whenever that's been handled. So I'm gonna have to wait on help. I'm really tempted to get in there and try and do it myself, but I just know that that's probably not a very good idea. I mean, I'm probably gonna try it, but I'll probably fail and wait for somebody to come over and help. Maybe an opportunity here. Got the tools lined up, various things. Waiting for my brother-in-law to come over. He'll be here in an hour or so, and we're going to, we're going to try and pick this up. I have a feeling we're gonna have to call me, call me, calling the palm tree company to come over and just let the professionals handle this. People who are used to it. That's a big part of their job, are picking people's blown over palm trees. In fact, apparently that's why we now have this palm tree, because the previous owner to this palm tree didn't want it anymore because they kept blowing over and rolling down their hill. I didn't know it was going to be this big. I would never put a palm tree this size just on my patio. They need to go into the ground in a hole. Even in the container, that's fine, but that just helps stabilize them. You know, that other queen palm, yeah, okay, so it's been blown over. It never used to blow over, but it also used to be in that corner and it was protected into that corner. But I can pick that one up. It's not that big a deal. I might need to build some kind of cage around that poor needle palm over there. It keeps getting smashed. I think the needle palm can handle it. We're going to find out because what's done is done. Anyways, as I was saying, perhaps an opportunity here because I need to come up with some kind of way to keep this from happening again. There are options here. One is put bolts in the ground with an eye hook. We talked about that though and put some straps across there. And I just feel like the amount of tension that would be required to hold this thing up would be very dangerous if it were to snap. Makes me very nervous. Very nervous. I don't know how much this weighs, but I got underneath it and tried to lift it. It didn't move at all. And I mean, I'm not like a gym rat. I don't squat. You know, at least I don't do like plates and bars, you know, but I do squats up. I'm not trying to lift bars and plates, you know, lower back issues. It's just, it ain't worth the risk. I do core exercises and stuff like that. But I can pick up some pretty heavy stuff out here. This is not moving. It's also wet. Part of the weight from this is actually the canopy. This is very full. It's a very full and lush palm tree. Believe it or not, that adds a lot of weight. It's just, you know, the overall picture adds a lot of weight. So straps in the ground, maybe not an option. Is there a way to strap it to the side of the house? Maybe. See, I don't know what the framing, what the integrity of all of this stuff is over here, but might be able to do something with it. Maybe put some sort of, I don't know, some big strong wood mounted into some more wood on each side, and then have a strap that runs up high. Because this isn't going to need as much stability if it's being held from up high, right? Because from up here, the palm tree, you know, something just to hold it in place. Down low, it would take a lot to keep that in place. Another option, so I think I'm going to try. I don't think it'll work, but I'm going to try. I think I'm going to try. It's to pull the adenidia palm out. Already did that. And maybe put some kind of very big, heavy body of water in front of it. I have some huge pots bigger than this. They have holes in them, but we can patch those up. And maybe put one of those in front of it, and put a little fountain in it, and call it a water feature. It'll be cute, whatever. But water is heavy, so it would have something structurally very heavy on one side of it, and that's going to help hold it in place, or it'll just blow the palm tree over regardless and crack through the house. I don't know. I still gotta get it standing up first. That's been what everybody's spitballing their ideas with right now is what to do, because we have to pull it away from the house, and this thing doesn't pull. Yeah, it doesn't pull. On camera, it's not probably going to come across how incredibly heavy this thing is. Like I said, it took four grown-ass, very strong men to get this palm tree in here, and this is what they do. And they were not happy with it. In my head, I was like, why did you bring this up? Why did you do this? They have so many queen palms at their facility. They could have given me anything that was smaller. But I appreciate they brought me this one because it's beautiful, and I think that's very nice of them to do that. But this is probably going to be a reoccurring issue, I would imagine, maybe. I mean, I don't know. We don't have storms very often that do this kind of damage. Every couple of years, well, actually, the last few years, it's pretty much every year something happens that blows over something really, really big. So I guess I can't say that for sure. But it happening more than once or twice a season seems unlikely. So maybe we just get it back upright and I put a big pot full of water right in front of it. But these pots aren't flexible. That's the other thing. It's like, even though they're full of water, it still has give to it. Is that going to hold back like eight to 1,000 pounds? Probably 800 to 1,000, I'm guessing. It's extreme weight. Might even be more. I don't freaking know. But that's what's going on right now. Just brainstorming, thinking out loud. I know I said when I cut back, the palm tree would probably be standing up. That wasn't true. I needed to talk through everything. And I don't know what it'd be like for the integrity of the house to go ahead and just put some reinforcement up there, paint it white, and put a couple, I don't know, it's a couple of nice looking ropes around it that would go just from there to there. So it has something that could wiggle around inside it, but not go through. But at the same time, it might just rip down, rip out part of the house. I don't know. Irrelevant transition. It's keeping it interesting. I made soap. I had tons of citrus left over from my nephew's birthday party, and I was like, well, that seems like a shame to waste it. I'm not gonna eat all that. So I made soap. It smells like, I don't know. Also made an oil out of the peels from the citrus. So it was like a lemony orange oil, and it smelled good. And there's a little bit of that in the soap, not too much, because that can be a skin irritant. But it's just, I don't know. I don't like the smell. Whatever, I'll give it away as a gift. I think it's more like a urinal cake. So how's everybody doing? It's been like a whopping 40 seconds. Hopefully things are still good. Pumpkin. How you doing, baby girl? Such a good pumpkin. I'm gonna go outside and put this area back together. I've been looking forward to it since yesterday. I had so many things I had to do yesterday afternoon so I couldn't get around to it, but today I get to put the space back together. Should've came inside to grab my headphones so I could listen to music while I do it. You're making me feel bad, pumpkin. I know, I love you. Pumpkins can't go outside, too dangerous. Might make some changes. Thinking maybe I don't put the big adenidia back right here. Not minding the openness of this space. And well, you can see the big palms better. Where am I gonna put it? I don't know. Something I never thought I would say, but I have one too many palm trees. Just one. It's just one too many. Just one too many. This is the one too many. I'll give that one away in a heartbeat. This should actually look nice. I got this repotted yesterday. This, my favorite hibiscus, the coelitonii. That pot, it's one of the old school foam pots. You remember those? Yeah, I don't know. Nobody sells those anymore. I'm sure there's reason for it. I never had issues growing anything in them. So I don't know, maybe they were just worse to ship. They probably crack a bunch when you ship them, I'm guessing. They make bad squeaky noises when you scoot them around. I'll pull you up. I should probably pot this up at some point, but I don't know. I keep finding new spots where I like it. That's kind of the thing with this gingers. I've been moving it around, because I keep going, oh, I need a filler right here. So it goes over there. But I could even just scoot it up into a pot that's not much bigger than this. And I think that that would be fine. Yeah, I like that. I had the sun patients over there, but I pulled both my sun patients over in the shade right now, because I need to move them up into a larger container. I just don't think they're going to flourish if I put them in the pots. Like, if I just set them down into these containers right here, I don't think it'll work. They need some fresh mix. Oh, that's an awful sound. There we go. That's a good spot for that. The hanging baskets, you know, you get those in the early spring, mid-spring. I don't know. Depends on where you went. But you get them earlier in the season. And then by this time of year, really we're into early summer, they just, they don't thrive at that point, because they got started so early. So they really need to be moved up into something larger and get you back into the shade. Poor guy. Look at sun and storm damage. Been a rough year for this guy, but rough few months. I just bought this, like what, five, six months ago? Put on a lot of growth since then. They're like, all of this, that's all new. It's been a loving life, but not so much the erratic, violent weather. Let's just get this scooched over here where it's not going to be in the sun as much. I don't think I need this rug. I had this down as like an extra rug underneath the other rug, but is there really a reason to have both of them? I don't think so. Okay, I have the fan behind me, so pardon the noise. Look, ah, better. So much better. I realized that when I was coming outside, everything's just slightly at an angle. Just slightly tilted this way. Just need to do some adjustings. Give me a chance to hold the rug out differently in a way that made more sense. You know, somewhat of a different layout this year. So this was an opportunity to fix some things that Ed and Nydia's not over there anymore. I went ahead and I moved that guy over here, and I do like it in this spot. It's nice. It's inviting and cozy with the impatiens, and it makes more sense with the umbrella right there, because everything in the bottom of the pot needs shade, but everything on the top needs sun, so that works out well. Only issue, though, is that, I don't remember if it was this video or, at some point in some video between here, maybe it'd been a members-only video, I don't remember, but when you get down to this point, the drip irrigation does not have as much pressure. So down this far, I just get a trickle out of the drip line, and this guy needs a lot of water. I could, I don't think this would be a great idea, but I could tap into the drips that I have set up to go around the hot tub and just run a thing around here and just have one piece that goes over, but I feel like that's just messy. I'm trying to keep things nice and organized with the drip this year. Or maybe what'll happen is I can shut off the drips that were set to go to the Ed and Nydia palm when it was right here, so turn those two down, and maybe that will increase the pressure for down here. I doubt it, but maybe it just might. I'm not quite sure. All that's left to do is to try and fix that mosaiced table that broke, and then I'm still working on that hydrangea pot. Getting that wood back together takes a few days with that many pieces, but we're gonna get it back together. I hung the basket back up. I know, I know it looks like garbage. That's because the old hook that was there fell and broke. The whole thing fell down and it's been on the ground for the last few weeks. I couldn't decide if I wanted it up there when the Ed and Nydia palm was over here. It was just too much. I didn't like it, so I pulled it down after having just put up a brand new hook. But now that the Ed and Nydia's not there, it's like I need to get this up there because we need airflow around this thing. So, I don't know. I think that it'll fill back out and it should hopefully look good again someday. Get fertilizer in time. I think it'll be all right. I do like not having the Ed and Nydia there, even though that Ed and Nydia, the one that's right, but this one right here, this guy, that's my favorite Ed and Nydia palm. I love it. It's got that nice chunky trunk on it, but it is nice being able to see through here, especially, I mean, look at that view. Isn't that beautiful? Well, okay, nevermind the parrot. Pretend the parrot's not there. I'll take those down eventually. My nephew loves them so much, but I probably shouldn't pull them down. Save them for next year for his next birthday party. It's beautiful. Why do I try and talk through the hiccups? It doesn't make sense. I'm still doing it. Yeah, I like this being more opened up. It's good. It's good to be able to see through here. It was a little bit too secluded in this spot. And that view, I mean, come on. That's just stunning. It's beautiful. I love being able to see that. So I have the pot over here. This is what I would be filling with water. Oh, that arm's broken. I don't know what, we'll figure something out, maybe. I don't know what to do there. Everything's always gotta be just a little bit janky out here, just the way things go. That container is what I was talking about, maybe filling with water and putting this little fountain in it. And I don't know if you little goldfish from one of the other ponds can move things around or do a bunch of guppies, do some summer tubbing in it, even though that's shipped. It hasn't sailed. I still have a good three months of decent guppy weather out here. Probably right, July, August, September. Yeah, easily. But I need to fill in the holes. I drilled giant holes in the pot. So, you know. There's that. I would need to get that fixed up first. Have to do something with it. Can't just have holes in the bottom. I might just put a liner in it. It might be easier and just see what happens. You know, call it a day. I'd be more into this if the spot got more sun because I would love to have my water lilies and the lotus and all those things out here again, but I just don't have the sun in most spots. I have one spot that I can think of for an aquatic planter and that's right over here against the hot tub bowl where that green cooler is. I could put a big shallow bowl right there and maybe use it in place of the sandbags in front of the Eureka Palm over there so that won't blow over, right? To have a big bowl of water with a lotus and something in it. That might be nice, but you know, that's a thought for another day. Yeah, okay. I'm happy with this. I just have some glowing to do, that hydrangea planter. There are other things I need to be doing, but I feel like those are top priority. The hydrangea planter is the main priority, right? Oh, look at the hibiscus. I think that looks lovely. That's a much needed improvement. The plant looks better. It'll be happier and healthier in there. I'm thinking I may come in here and pull out a lot of the lower foliage just like from right here and down, right there and down. I'd move fast so my finger wouldn't take the focus out and putting some kind of trail where then I think that would look nice and I feed all that bottom stuff to the iguanas and the tortoise. They'd appreciate it. Okay, that's wind. It's getting windy. Yeah, we'll pick up. Hopefully something will be going on and going well over here. I like how things have come back together, right? It was a happy little accident having a storm come through and blow all the stuff over. Hey, do you wanna go on a car ride? Let's go, let's go on a car ride. Oh my, oh my, car ride. Yeah, let's go. Yeah, was that fun? Always a good time to get to go on a car ride. Okay, had to run up to Ace. Need to get some stuff so I can get the hold sticks in that pot. No, you can't go. I'm sorry, turbo. I have to wait and do the thing. I have air conditioning now. So, turn the car on with remote control. It stays nice and crispy in there for 15 minutes and then it turns off, but we're just gonna be in and out. So it's not good. Man, it takes a long time to turn on though. Is it ever gonna turn on? Let's try that again. Maybe it wasn't locked. Anything? I'm sure the audio from this is great. Yes, I need to get my hood painted. Oh my gosh. There we go. That took a minute. Maybe the car has to be off for a certain amount of time before you can turn the auto starter back on. Maybe, I don't know. Yeah, I got my air conditioner repaired. It hasn't worked for the last two or three years. And oh, it's so nice to have a nice cold car again. This is cute. It's cute, I like that. It's a nice hefty size birdbath too. It has a little patina. That's nice. I'm just grabbing Flex Seal. We'll go back to the house. They don't have any plants currently. They already put their plants away. No, they have one. They have one plant left. Something I find interesting about this product, you've seen the commercials, Flex Seal, they're spraying it on top of a screen door and turning it into a boat. It does say in here, in the directions, make sure the area is clean, dry, and free of grease, oil, dirt, and debris. Am I mistaken? I could just find the infomercial they use this stuff in the water. That was probably a tape. Probably, I think it was the tape. Whatever the case, this is what I'm gonna use to fill up, or patch up the holes on the pot. I have some screening here. I use it to cover up big holes in the bottom of planters. I figure I'll cut this and, you know, cut the pieces big enough to put over the holes that are in here once this dries, and then we'll go ahead and Flex Seal it. I don't know. I think that'll work. If that's the plan anyway, so I'm gonna point the fan onto that, let it dry for a bit, grab some scissors so I can cut those things up, and just sit back and let Turbo enjoy the pool for a while. He hadn't swam in several days. We thought he had an ear infection, went to the vet, and they said, nah, it's just allergies. Made a little medication change and a diet change, and he's already feeling a lot better. Less itchy, right, Turbs? Yeah, it was fun. You got to do your swimmings, I know. I know, it's been a long couple of days not being able to swim. All right, I'll point this over here, see if we can dry that out faster. Once that's dry, we'll get to work. All right, so I'm gonna go in with a large mesh and then spray it down with the stuff, and then another layer here of the smaller mesh. Wow, I actually ended up doing it. Ooh, how's that echo? Did it off camera. There's lots of stuff flying around that I thought would be really bad for the lens, but I put this on top of that so it gave the rubber something to grab onto, and it worked much, much better using a finer mesh like this. I'm gonna give that about two hours to dry, and then I'm gonna do another coat because I can see there are some spots where it's lifting up and kind of curling over there. So I'll be doing a few more layers, and then tomorrow I'll be able to do a leak test and just hope that it holds water. Oh, good morning, uh-oh, whoa. Why is that all blown out? What's that about? There we go, that's better. Hi, pumpkin, how you doing? Good morning, why aren't you eating your food? Go eat your food, pumpkin. Go get it. Here, do you want it? Get that food, pumpkin. No, you don't want the food? That's fine. You want me to just put some hard food on a napkin for you? Is that gonna do it? No, you're holding it for treats, huh? Oh, I get them. Here, is that what you want? Okay, that's what I thought. You get two. Okay, next morning, let's go outside, see how well that pot is gonna do with holding water. There's a spot that I really just didn't want to seal down and I think that that's probably gonna end up being the issue here. Let's see. It was still kind of tacky last night. I think this is gonna be okay. There's gonna be a lot of weird echoes here, sorry. Right there, okay, now that filled in. It's still kind of tacky, though, so maybe I should give this another day or at least several more hours to dry just to be safe, because see how it's leaving little marks like that? That's not ideal. Just confused, I could've sworn they were using this stuff underwater, but not the spray. They're not spraying it underwater. That can't be right. I don't know, I don't know. Hey, like I said, it's the next day. That's gonna be fine, but it's not like it's gonna stop the palm tree from blowing over. It's really just an excuse to make a little water feature there. How's this guy looking? I'm getting this pot glued back together as fast as I can. Yeah, all right. We got the cardboard over the root ball there, and it's over here. It's not in the shade right now, but it's more shaded right here. I still have the drip on it. You know what I should do, though, is I should pull this drip head out if I can get to it. I'm tearing things up too much. Not that it matters. There's a very, very, very small chance of this getting back together into that container over there and still looking normal. No, it's gonna come to pieces. This is gonna be very hard to lift up here into this pot. Here's where we are. On the container, we've gotten all of this done right here. The problem is, you know, you gotta work your way up from the bottom to the top, and each one needs a good amount of time to set before you can keep going. You have to keep it really tight because Gorilla Glue expands a little bit, so when you get to the end, everything starts to fit together. So this is, you know, it's a multi-day project. We're getting there. I was thinking, probably wouldn't it be a terrible idea to go into that container when we're done? It would mean the plant has to sit out for another day, but to go in with a mesh material like I used over there and spray that down with some rubberized material just to help reinforce it from the inside. I don't know. It wouldn't hurt to do that. It'd cost a lot of extra money and maybe might not do anything, but I don't know. I think it'd be a good idea. We'll see. It's something to think about. I don't have issues with this pot breaking. It's broken twice in the last, what, 12 years, maybe, that I've had these pots. It hasn't been that long. Feels like it's been that long, but, you know, haven't had them for an eternity. It's the only pot that's ever broken out of all four of these is just this one. This is a spot where the wind really just hits things. So it's not, you know, not something that happens on the regular. Get in here and prune out. I pruned out a ton of stuff for this banana that got damaged from the storm. Just like I missed that one. Missed that tip up there. Hey, look at this. Isn't that nice? Candy Crush Hibiscus, finally. Finally doing its thing. I've never gotten to sit back and appreciate the blooms on this plant before. When I initially planted this, it was down here, underneath the heptacodium. It was when the heptacodium was still, you know, this tall. And it just never got the sun it needed. That spot over there in the afternoon, it gets shaded. So I dug it up and moved it over here. So it spent two years over there. I was just like waiting, like, oh, eventually it's going to get big. It didn't. So the third year I moved it over here. Then for two years, it didn't do much of anything over here either. Finally, boom, got some growth. Took a long time, a lot of patience, for a plant that typically, if you plant these Hibiscus and Machetos types, within a year, you'll be very pleased with them. Normally, but this guy, it just took longer. Really messy, actually. I'm not sure how much I like this here. It's waited four years to get to see this plant really do its thing. And yeah, I don't know. I don't know if I'm loving it. Because the way it holds onto its old flowers is really just, I don't know, it's not something I enjoy looking at. It looks like there's this wet, gross pink tissue paper all over it. But it's a pretty Hibiscus. This is the Candy Crush. I've already said that, but I'll get in closer so you can see it. It's a nice pink. In the pictures, it looked more like a vibrant bubblegum hot pink in person. And probably through the camera, it's a, well, it's not like that. There are others that I think I would like better. At this point, there's one called, I think it's called Ruffled Watermelon or Watermelon Ruffles. And then one called Airbrush Effect, which I do have one of over there, but it's not blooming yet. This area that's planted had a really rough time last winter. Let's see if it's doing anything. I went down there to grab the hose. And I didn't get it. I got distracted by Hibiscus. No, I can already tell the Airbrush Effect is not blooming yet. Try and step through here. See what's going on. Okay, here we go. There's a beach ball. Nah, it's like not doing anything. Not all that surprised. Because like I said, everything over there had a really rough winter. Those are hardy into zone four though. But yeah, I don't know. There we go. Put that in there. All right, so that pot's drying. Hopefully that'll be done by the end of the day. I'm gonna go ahead and run that drip zone again since I moved that dripper so it can run through the side of the root ball. Oh, and I have the cardboard over that root ball because I want to keep things dark around the roots, right? It's the best thing to reduce stress on the plant. The best thing I really could do is to get it pulled all the way back into the shade, but I'm just really paranoid that the more I move it, the more I'm gonna do a lot of damage. So I'm just like, okay, we'll just keep it cool. I'm grateful the temperatures are just in the 80s this week. Very pleasant outside. So, you know, could be a lot worse. July is normally just awful, but right now things are good. And then the following video has come out. So video on growing Cannas came out, which means that the comments on the last video, the advice request video for the palm tree, those should be slowing down by now. Usually when the next video comes out, then whatever prior to that, the views drop off drastically on that. And thank you everybody for your tips and tricks and suggestions. There are a lot of people who maybe don't watch the channel or just haven't watched it very long and maybe don't know. I don't know. It can get confusing saying all this and then be like, oh, he's in St. Louis. Yeah, so this will go in the ground next year. I would imagine that that's just, not even imagine, that is the smartest thing to do with it. This palm tree was sold to me as one of these, one of these little guys that's easier to move around. It's not practical to put it in the ground right now because I have to get a crew of people out here with a crane. And even four or five other guys, strong people, we can't move this and then safely get it into a hole. And I have to plan that out properly. And what I think would make more sense would be next year to do that Queen Palm in place of this Alexander Palm. I love the Alexander Palm. And I think it's been really fun having it right there. But the Alexander Palm is like not heavy at all. The root ball's heavy, but that top structure, there's nothing to it. I can put the Alexander Palm over here and it would actually probably prefer this spot because it would get less light and the Alexander doesn't need it. The only problem though, is that that is an extremely wet spot over there. That Alexander Palm is pretty much sitting in a bowl of water all summer long. The Alexander can take it. The Queen, I don't know how that might rot it. I don't know. These are all things to think about. Could always dig a new hole somewhere, but if it comes down to that, I'm probably gonna say, hey, you know what? Just keep the palm tree. Don't bring it back next year because this is not what I was expecting. It's fricking beautiful though and I love it. And drastic forecast change too. So it's supposed to be just really clear skies and beautiful. Now they're saying tomorrow they're calling for really, really, really bad storms. And I'm still waiting to hear back from people, structural people, about securing this up to the side of the house. So, I mean, I do think it's more secure now than it was before, because part of it just being at the right angle will make a very big difference. What I do think would be smart would be, you know, to get some sort of reservoir full of water put over here. And it's that way if it falls, we'll help direct it to fall properly, which would be this direction away from the house and everything. I mean, everything's gonna be fine. It's a palm tree. They tip over sometimes. Nothing that happened was all that catastrophic. It was more just like, aha, well, how do I stop this from happening again? Got lots of mixed answers on that one. Lots and lots of them. And I appreciate everybody's contributions. Thank you. I've been doing some props. That time of year will really, early August is when I like to get going on, but I had to film the video now so it can come out in late July. Early August. Oh, this is driving me crazy. I want to fill this up with water so bad. I want to know that I can put water in here. You can move it to the sun and take it over here. That might help. Stick it in the sun, let it cook. Angle it. There we go. Yeah, I'll just hold it like this for the next 20 minutes and see what happens. Just kidding, I'm not gonna do that. That would be ridiculous. We'll just set it down. Warm pavement, that should help. Well, eventually that should be dry and then hopefully it'll hold water and we can get it set up over here. I think that's good. Head the ladder up. May as well change out some light bulbs. Those have been out for like two years. Not really, about a year. It's really hard to get those globes off and then have a little gentle strap system going on up here with flex cord so that the cord will break before the roof does. Makes sense to do it that way, right? I also, I'm not gonna be able to do this right now. Probably have to be in next week's video because I don't have time this week, but I need to go get another two-by-four. Next thing, just get some two-by-four. Cut out the bottom lip here of this pot to set a two-by-four to come down at an angle. One right there, one right there, one right there. Do like several of those around here. It wouldn't have to be at much of an angle either. I mean, just even like that. That's all it'd need to be just to add some stability. And I think that that'll take care of it. I figured using a light pound test cord up there, paracord actually, that's what's up there. Something with a lower weightage on it and then a bungee. So, you know, there's some give and some flex. I talked to an engineer about all of this and they said, yes, good way to do it. Sent them pictures and everything. And like I said, those ropes will give before the board. And if the board gives, that's all right. That board's not hard to replace. I don't like that board anyways. Also, hydrangea pot, finally done. I'm gonna hold off on putting it back in the pot just because we're supposed to have really bad storms today. This is what it looks like. And that's, you know, is what it is. I got these pots for, I think they were $2.50 a pop many, many, many years ago. And I would imagine these would cost at least probably five or 600 a piece now, at least. Line the inside with Flex Seal just to add some more stability to everything. You know, why not? Rubberized coating. And I figured, you know what, all right. It's got some cracks, big deal. One, I kind of like a weathered look so I'm not that bothered by it. And two, you know, sweet potato vine, cover that right up. But I'm gonna let this sit right here for right now because we're supposed to have those storms. And my back's a little sore. I slept funny. I woke up like twisted like a pretzel. I don't know what the hell I was doing in my sleep last night, but I was just, and I'm not. So I'm not gonna mess with that. Need to let my back loosen up a little bit. That's where we are today. Also, I think we'll go ahead and set up that water feature. Y'all are gonna hate me for this. I don't know, I just bought another pot because here's the thing, I was just curious. I was on the website At Homes where I got this. I was like, I wonder if they still have these. And not only do they still have them, but they're on clearance. They're $40 off, so then I ordered two more. And they're in the driveway, and yeah. So I probably won't even use this one. I'm sure everything I just did to it. Yeah, oh well. Because the two, the only two that they had, are, they're a color that I'm not really, actually, I haven't looked at them yet. I just saw the security camera. But I don't think they're, well, that's a nice color, actually. Wow, that's not my favorite color, actually. That's a brick red kind of color, which is fine. But I do think that this is what I would prefer to have tucked back there, to use as a pond. So yeah, these were on sale for 80 bucks. I'm like, that is, these are 30-inch pots. 30-inch containers are very expensive. I don't like that they're not a rolled rim. Rolled rim meaning that the rim right here is actually rolled around and sealed the other way around so you don't hit the slip. Problem with these containers is once you put something in here, it ain't coming out. You have to cut them out, usually. Because the slip, the way it hangs out. I'm gonna try putting foam in these when I pop them up next time. But I mean, it's still not gonna change the fact that you have this lip right here. It is what it's, but hey, I think this is what's gonna make for a nice pond. And my watering can's here, I need a new watering can. So that's awesome, I'm waiting on that. I picked this guy up at the Goodwill. It has a crack in it and I thought, let's make a planter. A planter out of a cooler, that's gonna be fun. What are you doing, why do you eat the nutsedge? He likes the nutsedge, I find that interesting. He doesn't chew on plants, except for the weeds. Thank you for doing your part, Turbo. I appreciate it. He's not greasy, he's been swimming. I had somebody comment that my dog was greasy. He's not greasy, he's a water dog. He's always my swamp monster. He's a little greasy, he's a Labrador. But you know, it's not very much. He has a good diet and he gets regular baths. It's the pool, he's just wet. All right, let's go ahead and get this guy set up over here. I'm gonna make sure it's in contact, otherwise there's not a lot of points. Oh, yeah. Yeah, I'm glad that's over here. I'm not all that fond of that color. Hi, Turps. What is that? Is it gonna be a big bowl? Is there gonna be fish in there? Where are your fish? Where's your fish? Go find your fish. Where are your fish at? He knows where those fish are, yep. There's your fish. Good boy, Turbo. I do feel like I need to take this and fill up the other pot just to see if what I did worked. Maybe I'll do that later. It's supposed to rain here in a bit, so there'll be some water in another container. This is going to take a pretty long time to fill up. Gave it a rinse about 20 minutes ago, and got all the dust and stuff out of there. I have a cinder block, I think. I think I have one over here. There we go. One lone cinder block over here. I just gotta be careful with picking these guys up. They're usually full of critters. Yep, that's full of critters. Have to hose that out. I need something I can set the pump and the filter up on top of. I have like an all-in-one little filter thing that'll go in here. Just keep the water circulating. Yeah, all right. Okay, well, we'll come back whenever this is done. Here's the filter I got. Really, I just went for what was cheapest. I think you could get here the fastest on Amazon. I think this was $39.99 on sale. Ow, ooh, that was deep. That's a little cardboard cut there. It's an all-in-one filter. So it's basically just this guy right here. Pretty simple, really just overkill for what we're doing out here, but I would rather overkill it than underkill it. The mosquitoes have been horrible this year. So I really wanna make sure that water was circulating as best as it possibly could. So this is a, what does that say, Aqua Miracle? Yeah, it has a little light on it. I assume that's an indicator light. Not quite sure for what. There were some that had UV on them, which I don't really care about, because the thing with UV is it only works well, at least if you have the proper flow, which is generally a lower flow. And if you change those bulbs out regularly, which I never do, assuming that, yeah, that's what I thought. There's biological media in here. That's good. This is gonna provide space for all the bacteria to grow and keep things nice and cycled and stable in there. I just wanna pour those into these bags. These are terrible. I don't think I'm actually gonna use this. I would prefer the kind that zip up. I think I have some of those somewhere. So this is what I've got. These are much better. They've got little zippers on them. So you can put your media right inside of them. And I'm going to just do two of these, and then this one, I'm gonna swap out this one, the bag, just for my other filter. I have some stuff that's already cycled in here. Oh, there's my microphone. Hopefully you could hear everything I was just saying. It was in. Zip bags are good. They're a lot easier to work with. And then I will be combining my media with the other filter so that things are already mostly pre-cycled here in this one. I'm not really a big fan of ceramic rings as it is, so I'm gonna try my best to make this work. It's gonna be messy because that bag does not wanna tear properly. There we go. Yeah. And it's starting to rain. That's good timing. $45.99 was the sales price. This one does 550 gallons per hour. They had another one that was not as powerful, which probably would've been more than enough for this one, but I wanted to make sure that I had the option to do something with the fountain features on here. Sometimes they aren't very strong and they're a big waste of everybody's time. What is that? That just a support hole? Apparently that's all that that is. No, it's not. It goes up to this right here. So there's a piece of pipe right here. Huh. Well, I guess I could look at the instructions. It doesn't say. Oh, get over here. Yeah, it doesn't say. So I'm just gonna assume that's an indicator light. Snap that up like here. These internal pond filters have come so far over the years. They used to be awful. There's one, the most popular one back in the day, it was called a Pond Master. It was just a square. It was just a square piece of plastic. You took a mag drive pump to it, which were also awful. So people want to fight me on that one, but I've had to replace every single one I've ever had very quickly. And the pads just, they're just big squares. You layered inside of them and they work, but man, they like to float around a lot. I was never a fan of them. The problem is they would always float up. You had to weigh them down. You had to put rocks on top of them and everything. It was just a monumental pain in the butt. But the fountain kits were nice and straightforward. This one's just a bit of a mess. This guy goes right here. And I'm assuming the rest of the pieces go on top. The instructions have a diagram, but they're not very helpful. Oh, that's nice. It came with a union that has a ball fitting inside of it. So you can move this piece around. Good angles. That can be nifty when you're working with things like water features. You need to make adjustments for your hosing and things like that. All right, and it has a switch in here that you can use if you want to change up the direction of your water, if you want water. Oh, nevermind. I thought that this is one of those two-way pieces. It is not. This is just an on-off flow, which that's nifty to have too. I was thinking that was one of these guys. With this, I assume that that goes in there. Yeah. And then where's the fountain tube? What'd I do with it? Okay. That's right here. Is that gonna fit on there? No? Dang. What does it make sense? Would it go like that? No, that's too loose. None of this makes sense. This is the fountain head I'll be using. Makes a really pretty bell. Look at that. Oh, this is one of those telescoping pieces. I get it now. Yeah, the instructions did not make that very clear. That changes everything. Okay, but this is just, that's really not a very tight fit. I mean, that can't be. That's not right. Where'd that one piece go? Is this one? I thought that would fit onto here. Yep. There we go. And will that be a tighter fit? Hopefully. It doesn't even fit. Oh, here I was thinking I had solved the mystery. Nevermind. No, I think I just need to push harder. There we go. All right. Now that feels silly and stupid. I don't really think that this should have to be on a swivel, but actually, you know, it can be nice to have the fountain head on a swivel because sometimes if the ground's not level, which it's not over here, you need to make the slightest adjustment to have these things look right. So this is good. That's going to rag on it, but I think that that's actually a good thing. This is the MF200, this one here in the middle, 35 Watts, 550 gallons per hour, eight foot cord and has adapters that you can put a three quarter inch hose on. It has other fountain heads too. So, you know, you can have fun with these. Now there are all-in-one pumps and fountains that I think are better. I mean, I haven't used this yet. The ones that have a UV light in there, if you don't know, UV is used to help kill off, well, algae and harmful bacteria and pathogens, you know, but again, the flow through those has to be right. You have to have the right contact time. You need to keep your quartz sleeves and things clean. There's caveats to using UV. And several that had lights on them, which I thought was really cool, but the price difference when you went to the ones with the lights on them jumped up quite a bit. So I went ahead and I just, I ordered a cheap light. And these are weighted, which is nice. A lot of the times, at least not so much now, but back in the day, not even that long ago, every time I'd try a pond light, they wouldn't be weighted and they'd float around. They'd put suction cups on them. That's a bunch of crap. You got to weight these things down, at least make it so you can fill them with rocks or something like that as a RGB remote control. So you can change the stuff up on them. That's all fine and dandy. I'm probably not going to mess with the lights in this video because I have to get power adapters and things out here. I only have one outlet available. So that's what I'm going to be using for this right here. Actually, I don't even have one outlet available. I'm going to unplug the lights that are on my stairs to plug this into. All right, now I'm going to go wash off that brick and then we'll go ahead and get this thing set up. The brick is in there to add some height because, well, this pot is 27 inches deep, I believe. And I want to make sure that the fountain head can stick up. So I'll lower that down, let that water fill it up. Oh, and it actually sinks. See those old school ones, they never would have done that. I could have maybe put this on the bottom, but I don't know, I'm going to need to bring this down. This is adjustable. So I can't adjust the height and I can bring it down. Don't want that too high above the surface or splatter everywhere. Okay, I'm going to try and pull this cord through. I have an outlet back here that's behind the furniture. I'm going to see if that'll, there we go. Whoa, whoa, whoa. All right, that works. My gosh. And I am wet. Nice flow. I was just bent over the couch right there, reaching back there to the cord. That's plenty of water pressure. Oh, that's nice. I'm going to turn it down some more. Turn it down and then try and adjust it. That's not quite the right angle. That's not quite the right angle either. You like that? Yeah, come on. I see much better bell fountains than this, but for the price, this is pretty good. You want them to be smooth and they'll have like a glassy appearance to them, which this does not have, but that's all right. It's still nice and relaxing. Sometimes it's just a matter of finding the sweet spot with these guys. Probably have to put some more water in there. But it's pretty cool. It's a bit much, but it's pretty cool. I have other fountain heads I can put on here if you're curious. But yeah, I think that it's going to be pretty ridiculous looking. There's a valve on here, so I can turn the water pressure down. I'm not going to because that, you know, wears down the pump to do that. I'm just going to let it be what it is, which is too much, way too much. So clearly that's not going to work because it's just what's going over the furniture, but it is pretty, it's a nice, pretty fountain. There it is with the water pressure turned down. Not very exciting, but that's what that one looks like. And then the other one, I usually feel like these all look the same. All right, so that one has less going on, but it's the same idea. Yeah, I like the bells a lot more. The bells are my favorite. I'm going to have to turn the water pressure way back up to get anything out of that. That's fine, but nowhere near enough flow. There we go, that's nice. I know the cord's obnoxious, but I don't know. We'll throw a plant over there or something at some point. Right now, I just wanted this here for the weight and for the circulation, you know, for the mosquitoes. Want that to be moving. Don't want that water to hold still or else the mosquitoes are real crazy. For the price, I really like this. And even without the price, I think that that's, this is a good deal. One thing I did want to point out is the water pressure on it did drastically change for no reason at all. It went down by like 50%, which would lead me to think that the pump probably sucked up a ball or something, I don't know. So I'll look into that. You know, there's a lot going on over here. This spot's pretty shady, so there's not much I can do in this as far as aquatic plants goes. There's one lily, I can't remember the name of it, it's yellow, that can take a little bit less sunlight. And then there's like acaris in there. There are some aquatic plants for the shade, so I don't know. Maybe we'll do something here in the future, but for right now, this is good. It's tranquil and peaceful. And it's a lot of weight. That's the main thing, there's a lot of weight there. We'll just, we'll see what happens. That was fun. Hey, thanks for hanging out. I'm gonna go ahead and wrap it up. It was a pretty long week of, you know, putting everything back together. The hydrangea tree's still not back in its pot, but I said I want to wait till the day's over because we're supposed to have some bad storms, so I don't know. If this does not work out, they're saying 40 to 60 mile an hour winds, so we'll be able to test this within a couple of hours. And if it, you know, if it comes down, then I'll let you know, and that'll be coming up here in a second. And if not, then the video's over. I hope everybody's doing well. Have a great day, great life, and I wish this one absolutely beautiful for ya. Oh, no, no, one last thing. I forgot. Something you should do that I forgot to do. Wash the filter off. I didn't do that. You should always wash the filter off. That was dumb. I totally forgot to do that. It needs to be rinsed. I'll probably drain this and start over with some clean water. No fish are going to be going in here, at least not anytime soon, so, you know. I just want to make sure that water's circulating, but it's kind of freaky. That's all.