Summer Pruning and New Plants || Too Hot I Quit

Look at that. Isn't that just a stunner? Love this. This is the Autumn Beauty Colladium. I've never grown this one before. I'm really like, did you stick your entire face in the lily bowl? There's no fish in there. Oh, wait, there is a fish. There is a fish in there. Never mind. I would still rather you not stick your face in it, though. Hey, what's up, garden friends? Jeff here. How's it going? I hope you're doing well. I'm great. Watering. It's a sprinkler head that runs this whole zone over here. You can kind of see it, sort of. Eh, not really. I don't know if it's worth pointing out, but it's right there. That green thing's sticking up. That sprinkler zone also runs a portion of the front yard, and the amount of water I'm having to use for all this stuff is too much for the front yard. So I'm trying this out for today. I'm gonna, I don't know, I have to figure something else out over here. Not the point of this video, just putting it out there. The point of this video is that, well, it is Wednesday for me, and that means that this is the day that our yard waste goes out. We have a, you know, company out here. It comes, picks up your yard waste, and it goes to compost, which means that it's a good day for pruning. So I need to do that, and then I want to do a bunch of cleanup on the patio. I've been working on lots and lots and lots of repots and props and things like that, so I have an area set up over here, and it's just, you know, things have gotten out of hand. So I should be done with that by the end of this week, which would be, I don't know, five, six days from now. Make sure to get that done in this video. Make things look nicer, and I'd like to get some planting and some potting done as well. I figure while this runs, trying to give things a nice heavy drink. My Japanese maple over there is looking pretty scraggly and thirsty. Oh, turn that off. Not over there anymore. Don't leave the fan on. One of the main areas that I need to tackle, and I'd like to repot this too. We'll get to that. I put a grass in there, and I don't like it. I don't know if this pot is, um, uh, frost proof. I need to put something in that that will, you know, take inside. Probably gonna put a sable palm in there. Yeah, right here. It's, it's too much. Yeah, this whole area, it's just, it's overgrown, and it's been bugging me. So I want to come in here, clear out the Colocasias that are in the front, and then, oh, there's some Japanese beetle damage. Nah, that's probably from the heat. More than likely, I'm also, um, spider might watch the Colocasias. They get covered with spider mites, so it's a good opportunity to get in here and have a good look at things and see if there's anything that needs to be sprayed, treated, or just all over pulled out. When things get crowded like this, that's when you start to have a lot of trouble, and it's largely the Cannas that I need to handle. They look beautiful, and I love them, but it's really shading the kitchen. It's too much. It's very dark in there. You look out that window, and you can't see any of this beautiful garden. All the work we've been doing out here, you can't even see it because these Cannas right here, and I know, it seems like I'm always complaining about these Cannas. It's not a complaint. I do love them, but I would love them more if they would stick to growing against the house and not just moving forward. I think this fall or maybe early spring would be better when they pop up next year to dig them all up, at least the ones that aren't where I want them, and maybe just do a whole row of them back there along the back side of the house. Just wanted to grab my clippers. Totally forgot that I just stuck them right here in my pocket. Dude's eyeballs fell off. Too hot for googly eyes out here. That looks so sad. We'll try and reattach those sometime. Grab the bin for the yard waste. I'm already throwing stuff on the ground. I want to be doing that. Makes sense. Just get it and bring it along, right? You think you're going to help me? Oh, you like the, you want to help me? Sometimes he likes to pull on the dumpster. Where'd you go? I thought you wanted to help. Come on, get it. You want to help me? You want to help? You want to help get it? No? Okay. Making me a wire turbo. Thanks a lot. Okay. Not off to a good start for just throwing stuff on the ground, right? So it's all these Colocasias. Is that where I should start? Well, I guess it's where I have to start, isn't it? Yeah, they're in the way. With these guys, I just come in. I just pluck them. If they're really close to the impatiens in here, then I try and just snap them because if I pull them up by the root, that's not going to be good for those impatiens. People freak out sometimes when I do this and just, just don't. Calm down. Everything's fine. These grow like weeds. If I lived any further south, I don't think I would grow these in my garden. You know, if I were a solid 7b or 8, no freaking way because they run all over the place. I planted one of these bikini over there like, I don't know, six, seven years ago maybe. They're not even growing over there anymore, but they are everywhere from here and down. They're popping up on that side of the yard. They're vigorous. And this is just something we do every year. It's just become part of the routine. It's quick. It's easy. And you know, I think it's fun to be able to come into a space and do a big overhaul of something like this. It's simple. Oh, that one's rooted really far down there. Usually I can just pull these up, but man, okay. All right. That's how that usually goes. That is what it is and that's fine. Okay. Yeah. See that spider mite damage just on this one, trying to hold that nice and tight. Get that in there. It's another reason to open things up in here, right? The more open I have it, the easier it's going to be for me to get in with any sprays or anything like that that I might need to do. Really just allowing more light and airflow into the space can help some. Wow. That's a really pretty color on this one. That's highly unusual. That's not normally what these Bikini Teenies look like. This has a bluish green variegation on it. I don't know. Maybe we leave that one alone. It's doing something fun over there. It's like a, almost a blue velvet appearance. I'm going to do that too. All right. You get to stay. You get to say what's going on with you. Is that just sun damage? Probably just sun damage. I'm not sure. I am just going to take it out. There we go. Oh wow. I did not notice that this had pink in it. The others haven't done that. This is a Pharaoh's Dream Colocasia. Talk about it all the time. Probably every single week I talk about this one because it's so freaking beautiful. For a hardy elephant ear, this is good into zone six y'all. Give it a try. It's just stunning. It's stunning, period. But especially as one that's hardy into zone six. And I've never had one put up a pink like that. It's usually a really vibrant white like you see right here. But the pink, that's new. I wonder if that's something that comes with just lots of years of growing and maturity. I don't actually think I like it more than the white. I prefer just the regular white, but it's fine. It's nice to have some color in there. Yeah. Okay. So I'm going to get in here. You get the point, right? Of what's going on. I'm going to try and clear out all this stuff from down low in the front and then somehow work my way back there and pull a lot of those cameras out. Oh, that looks much better. I don't know if it'll be noticeable to you all, but to me, I can certainly tell a big difference. One of the reasons I had to do this was because there wasn't light getting down here to the row of impatiens I had planted in the front. And I have a sable miner back there that's getting choked out. Don't want that to happen. And I was noticing weeds that were in here that were really hard to get to. So I was able to go in and pull those out. So things are just more open now in the front here. I also pruned out some of this camera right here because it was hanging over the front of these sun patients. And I did some pruning back here because I had a bikini teeny. It was like all up in this space right here. Really need to do a prune of the bananas. It's pretty hard to get back there. I think it would look nice if I could get back in there and prune some of that stuff out though. That's not the task at hand. The task at hand now is the canvas. Wow. Look at these. That's unusual. These aren't supposed to get that big. The bikini teenies. Those are probably pushing seven feet high. They're very big. I'm assuming they're a good two and a half feet above my head right now on 5'11". But this garden bed is also raised up probably, I don't know, 14, 16 inches, just over a foot. So those are big. Big guys. Now, okay, canvas. I'm not looking for it. I don't want to crawl back here. I don't want to do this. I was just going to do it before and after, but it might be entertaining to try and come back here with me. I don't know about that. I think I'm going to need two hands to get back here. I don't know. Let's see. How much you want to bet I'm going to get eaten alive by mosquitoes when I get in here? Seems accurate. Is there even places to step? There's a gap in here behind this palm frond. Get in there. Pull that out of the way. All right. We're officially inside of everything. There's a big weed. Go ahead and get that out of here. I'll pull that while we're over here. There we go. Just try and get that out of here. Oh, hey, that's nice. Had the worst thing shoved in my face before. I'm also trying to keep track of bugs and pests. I don't want them to, like, rub on my shirt. Then I'm just wiping them all over the place back here. Okay, we're good, right? I'm not going to step on anything. Try and get back further. Okay, you know what? I think maybe you might just have to start snapping. I'll start snapping them and then I can start cutting them. This is just, yeah. Oh, okay. Oh, that's better. It's getting a little claustrophobic in here. There's so many little guys. That's because when I cut them back last time, I didn't cut them back far enough. I left them like two or three feet high and really need to take them to the ground. But they're so tall that I usually have to start pretty high when I'm cutting on them. You know? You know what I mean? Does that make any sense at all? It's going to take a while to get through all that. Okay, not bad. I think I'm going to have to actually come up with a machete to get these thicker ones down because the clippers aren't cutting into it. I left the ones that are higher up against the house. That's where I want them to grow. I also had to open this up because the clematis vines have been battling for the last several years. They're starting to come back and I need to be able to get to them. I've been cutting to the ground using the stump killer on them and that's been working. But I got to stay on top. If you let these go to flower, you'll regret it big time. Also, they were crowding this poor magnolia here, so that needed to be opened up. Everything's going to be able to get more light and some more water back here. My poor ponceras. Well, that thing just dried up and died. It got smothered. It was already not looking too hot. It had a rough winter. But still, you know, I don't think it helped being crowded by everything. Let's see the damage. I was just kind of throwing everything over my head. Yeah, okay, this is going to be alarming. But believe me, it's for the best. Yeah, I know, I know. Sad. Need to be done though. Can't have all that stuff growing all the way up into the front of the garden bed. They're still in the back, which is where I want them. That's where they're better. They'll do better back there. The ones that were in the front were just too tall and the ones in the back weren't getting the sun they need. So now I have that taken care of and I just need to, well, I gotta get all this in there and then I'm done. That's enough for today. It's extremely humid out and I just wanted to get this main thing done since the yard waste goes out tonight. There's a hawk fight or something going on up there. They're squawking at each other, making noise. It's got you guys' problems. I can't see my screen. I don't know if you can even see them. Yeah, I'm gonna clean this up and then we will pick up later with hopefully some planting, potting, or I don't know. Something else that needs to be done. Hey, pumpkin. How you doing? I missed you. Yes, I did. I was outside for so long. Not really. It's not the next day. Anyways, there's some more to do out there. It's been a few hours. Things have cooled off some. Under 94, so you can say that's more pleasant. And everything's foggy now. Love it. Well, I remembered that I have a banana issue over here. These bananas are... This isn't where they're supposed to be. Years ago, I had a beautiful couple of bananas over here and then I was like, I don't want them there anymore. So, I stopped protecting them. Just assumed nature would do its thing and it did. That main clump stopped growing but these are Baju bananas. Baju bananas. B-A-S-J-O-O. They run, walk, crawl. They stroll. So, you plant them. You get a really nice clump over time. You know, for me, it seems like it's about every, I don't know, seven or eight years, that nice tight clump breaks apart and they just start to go and walk around. Does that make any sense? I don't know how else to describe it. They spread and they lose that nice tight clump. So, yeah, the pups from that big clump that was right here are now over here and they're actually inside of this heptacodium. I don't exactly have more space inside that dumpster but I gotta try and do something. Should I just use the machete for this? Maybe I can cut this down with the machete and just kind of pull it through. I have string lights in there. I left them in the tree because I was like, these might be nice. I might turn them on at some other point. I haven't but I thought maybe I would. They change from white to multicolor and I even left the lights over here. It's like, I might turn them on. No, never did. I absolutely still could just have not felt like crawling back there. Look at this. Oh my goodness. Oh my gosh, that's a weed. That is a very big weed that has a caladium rooted in there with us. We have to separate that out. Do you know what that is? That is from, oh my gosh, I can't believe that. What a bunch of stupidness. So, that is a weed that was growing down here. See, there's some of these right here. A whole bunch of them, right? And when dad's planting weeds, I just picked up and I just tossed them over there on top of that pot and they rooted into the freaking pot. Well, that's not ideal. Let me pull that up. At least I'm getting them up before they can flower and cause problems out here, right? That's the main thing. You just don't want to let them go to flower because then they'll be all over the place. My goodness. To get these poor caladiums out from inside of these, it's probably gonna be a two-handed job. Yeah, more than likely. Okay. All right. Well, that's good. Glad I noticed that. Here, the machete out. Yeah, that's pretty good. The heck? I don't, I have no idea where this came from. They're saying maybe it was left behind by the carpet people. Don't know why they would put it over here though. They were doing all their work over there. Oh, and I forgot to pick that spiky thing up too. I need to do that. Don't want to forget. So, the idea here is to just get in here with the machete and maybe I'll cut, usually when I'm using this on bananas, I like to go through and do a real, just a nice, it's a flick of a wrist and go boom like that. You can get it out, but this is right up to that trunk. Well, it's not quite, that's not quite up to that trunk. So maybe I can actually just knock that out of the way. I just want to hit the trunk of the, the heptacodium. Give that a few. Okay. All right. Set this thing down someplace safe. Right there. That'll work. Maybe I can just pull it out. Even just getting this one out of here would be really nice. I have just, I love the garden this year, but it's not very accessible the way I've built things up. I'd like to get all those cleaned up, but there really just is not a way to get up here without trampoline stuff or getting, you know, just a crotch full of plants. Might just be the way we have to do things though. All right. Just getting up close and personal with these guys. See if I can't pull it out. Oh, what I'm going to have to do here is probably cut it again right there. And then I bet that'll pull out a lot easier, a lot more easily. Come on. Oh, wrong side. There we go. See, this is all up inside that tree, which is not really good for it. There we go. Keep pulling. It'll get a little bit shredded up and ready, but that doesn't really matter, does it? Not trying to preserve the banana tree. Trying to get this thing out of there. All right. I'm going to have to cut it again. See what's happening is I don't have an angle I can work with to pull that out and under without really doing some damage to the stuff that's over here in the front. Did I get it all? No? Oh, some of these guys are being a little more tricky. Here we go. Put that right there for right now. Then I can just pull these out. Okay, that's good. This is one of those things where the last couple of weeks I've been looking at going, oh, I need to do that, but it takes me the time to figure out how I would go about doing it. One of those things where I think you just kind of got to get in and give it a try and see if you can't just make it work. I got the banana down here too. I'm going to need to get that out. There we go. Don't forget the trunk. Pseudostem. I should get back there and try and get those others out. Oh, I can barely reach this. There we go. I don't want to go back there, but I do think it would look a lot better to clear that out and have it open. It just makes sense to have bananas growing over there. I could leave like, I don't know, that one right there. It's closer to the house. I'm going to get more light. I don't mind having a couple of bananas over there, but there's another one over here that's up against the trunk right there. You see that? That's just ridiculous. I don't have any reason to keep that there. That one's going to be a lot harder to get out. Huh? Look at that. You can see light coming through. That's good. This is the problem over here is that there wasn't enough light coming through in here and we're having a lot of die off in the middle of the plant from those bananas. So got those out. Cut back this guy right here, which I think is an ash. I'm not sure. Comes back every year and I cut it back every year. Things are pretty intense over here. Here's that ash. Look at that thing. Isn't that ridiculous? Still got lots of banana scraps in here to throw out. You guys, there's a lot of carnage over there. I'm about to show you. Oh, okay. Yeah. Yeah. Hey, it needed to be done. Don't get me wrong. I did enjoy the way that looked. I liked bananas over here, but not growing up in the middle of the tree. That just didn't make any sense. That's not good for the health of that tree. So yeah. Yeah. Yeah. This is this. It's going to be better this way. And I had fun trying to squeeze this into that can over there. I guess that means I'm done pruning bananas. The next thing I was going to do is going to be to come in here and do some pruning, but I guess that'll wait till next week. As I still have all this to handle over here now. This is that piece of ash. Look at that thing. It's probably a good 10 feet long. Everything has had one heck of a lean and a stretch to it. Getting that stuff out of there is really going to help make things look more sturdy and steady again. How they should be looking, you know, more appropriate growth. There we go. Get that off of there. Yeah. And there's some broken stuff in there. That's just the way it goes when you're trampling around inside a garden that's really full. But for the most part, I think that this looks pretty good. I just need to start chopping it up into little pieces and see if I can't squeeze into that can. And then I got a box of plants that just showed up. So we're going to open those up and now let's try and get a couple and plant it up too. Made it fit. It does fit. Might need to do some more work on it, but hey, I'm glad to have this done. Always good to get things pruned up and tidy. Did you want me to throw your deflated basketball? There you go. I'm not getting in there. You go get it. Go swim. You want me to watch you jump? Go ahead and jump. Show everybody your jumps. There you go. What a good boy. That's not just a blower. One of those days where lots of little pieces of things, right? Just stuff that in there. Yeah. I don't know. Hopefully. Oh, that's okay. Good. I was going to say, I hope I don't have to go back and cut that out. We'll just squeeze that in over there like this. So it's only because these are banana leaves. I'm not really worried about these being stuffed in there because they just, they break and they compress so easily. Hard sticks and things. I would not just let them stick out like this. You time up and bundle them. But they've told me before they don't care about the banana leaves sticking out of the dumpster. So that's good. And look, I did save one banana. There's still one banana back there. And then these little guys in the front. All right. This is going to be fun to take out to the curb. Oh, what if it's going to storm? It's a 50% chance. It's only four o'clock. So it shouldn't be looking quite like this. I'm not like this at all. That time of year shouldn't be this dark out. So this may get cut short. I need to put my things away, clean up before I get moved on to another project. I have a box of plants over here. It's four plants that are all the same. Why am I talking it down? It's going to be fun and exciting. Really cool, fun plants. Okay. I kind of actually, I think we should handle this before moving on. This is a beautiful grass. It's a totem pole panicum. I threw it in this planter. There'll be a video where I talk about grasses out at some point. Might already be out. And I thought, oh, that looks so nice. And it does, but I already told you, right? You already have the background. I don't think that this can handle the cold. So let's pop a palm tree in there instead. And I'm thinking I'm over here. I'm just around the corner. I'm still talking to y'all. Don't mind the dead air. Here we go. Maybe a little baby sable palm right there. I know that this seems dramatic and drastic because it is. It's very dramatic and drastic, but I'll be able to keep it in here for a few years. And this is a type of sable palm that I'm going to be treasuring and taking very good care of over there. I'm going to want to take care of all of them the same, right? But this one specifically is quite special. Look at how that's bulging out the bottom of the container here. Did I bring a box cutter out here? I think I'm going to have to cut through the bottom of this pot to get this thing out. Cut to that. So same with the sable palms. So this is a sable palmetto, probably a sable palmetto hybrid called I will be talking about this a lot. I have a video coming out about it, maybe two videos coming out about these various sable palms over the next few weeks. It's likely a hybrid between a palmetto and a minor from Defuniac Springs down in Florida, and it stays smaller. It's still a robust palm. The thing that I'm most intrigued by is, well, that hybridization because that's a good thing. You want that sable minor blood in there because the sable minors are better at taking some cold and wet than the palmettoes and take a lot more cold and a lot more moisture too than the palmettoes during the wintertime. But this is supposed to have a good amount of vigor and that's what I'm wanting because sable palmettoes grow like snails and these are supposed to be pretty dang vigorous. People at Plant Delight said that this has flowered for them in as little as five years, which is pretty awesome. I think that this would mean that this is a palm that we can do lots and lots and lots of hybridizing with and just overall have some fun with. So what I say about this being a sable though, when it comes to this root here, you don't want to break the roots. You want to avoid breaking roots on sables as much as you possibly can because if you break one portion of the root, the rest of that entire root dies. So on something like this, I'm not even really going to worry about loosening it up. It's not swirling. I don't see a swirl in there, so I think that it's fine. Height-wise, I'd say this is good. I need to top this off because this hole is much smaller than the hole that was there for the grass. Yeah, it's going to add a bunch more soil in there. Excuse me, Turbo. Pardon me. Turbo's always trying to get in on the action. There we go. That probably seems like way too much, but I imagine it will settle quite a bit, you know. Yeah, so this is supposed to be a very fast growing type of palmetto, sable palm. I'm tempted to call it a palmetto because that's usually just what we say to differentiate between something being a sable minor versus sable palmetto. You know, that's what I'm talking about. It's a nice trunked sable palm. It's probably gonna be pretty cold-hardy and will grow quickly. I'm gonna put this away now, bring it over here, actually. It's just been repotted and it's very hot out. No reason to torture the plant. Let that have some shade while it adjusts to its container. And for the time being, just pop that guy back in here until I have a better idea of where I want to put it. Well, this isn't gonna make a very good scoop. I just cut the bottom of it out, didn't I? That's all right. I don't need very much. Freaking mess. There we go. I'm gonna take this over to the shade, set that down. Now let's come over here. Oh, crap. Lefty, I'll just sit in there again without me standing by. I should just start live streaming. I think that that would make more sense, don't you? I tend to film these longer videos as if it's live anyways because, you know, just want it partially because it makes editing easier and really just because I'm just going, doing, and getting things done without putting a ton of thought into what's going on, trying to narrow my way through it, depending on what's going on, right? Sometimes that's not always the case. Sometimes I really have things planned out, things I think need to be in a blog for entertainment, and then sometimes it's just like, hey, this is what's going on, this is what I gotta do. Okay, let's swap these out. Set this down over here. Turbo, please don't knock that over. That'd be a mess. Oh, gonna need that. Well, not really. I'm pretty sure I'm gonna remember since that's the totem pole, but good to know where that is. This is just a few little annuals from Proven Winners. Ones that I would always buy locally but just hadn't been able to find them, and then they were on sale, so I said, all right, let's just go ahead and order them. I've been waiting. It can be harder to get a hold of annuals this time of year. That's just the nature of things. People are starting to get rid of their annuals, summer annuals, and bring out stuff for fall, which is fine, but I'm still doing summer stuff over here. I'll point you down so you're not looking right at my address or at this packing slip. Why does it say one unit? Oh, one unit. All right, well, hopefully there's four in a unit. Usually you want to open these from the bottom, but I cut it open from the top like an idiot. I could probably just pull these out, though. Yep, okay, and those shipped as well as I figured they would. Hopefully one of them's looking good. Okay, this one's looking good. That one looks pretty decent. One of these days I'm going to have to remember that when you order things from Proven Winners, they send it. They aren't worried about the weather. They're like, oh, you want it? Here you go. That's not really the case. They do, you know, have you wait until it's appropriate shipping time with your spring orders, but then you hit this time of year and they're like, oh, it's 106 degrees outside? That's fine. We'll just, we'll just send it out. It'll be okay. It will be okay. These will recover just fine. Give them plenty of water. They'll defoliate a little bit. It will end up looking nicely. This one's looking pretty rough, though. That's not ideal, but this one right here, look at that. That is an absolutely beautiful plant. Are you waiting for me to tell you what these are? If you don't know, and then we'll fill you in. It's a pretty common annual. It doesn't have to be an annual, though. We're not going to grow them this annual. This is a Vermillionaire. What happened? Vermillionaire cuphea right here. This is 18 to 28 inches. I have seen these get absolutely massive in like California, where you can just plant them outside and they'll actually keep growing for you all year round, you know, pushing a good three feet, I would say. You know, maybe even bigger than that. These will form a nice bush, and these are covered with tiny little reddish orange tube-shaped flowers that the pollinators love specifically, the hummingbirds, the cupheas. This one specifically right here, also called a firecracker plant. That's a pretty broad name, right? Lots of plants get called firecracker plant. They want mostly full sun. They can usually take part shade, but the more sun you give them, the better your growth habit and the better the flowering is going to be. If yours aren't flowering a lot, or if they're long and stretched out, they just need some more sun. I don't know what their like actual hardiness range is. I think they're actually pretty darn cold tolerant. So I would say zone 8, does it say on here? It does, zone 8a and up. So this is one that I would give a shot in my zone 7 with a bunch of mulch and just see what happens. Would have wanted to plant that out much earlier in this season though, so I missed that opportunity. So what's going to happen with these? Well, one of them, I only needed one, but you know, that's fine. I have three more here to nourish back to looking good and have fun with. Over here, this is where we're headed. Look, I'm on my stool, scooting across the patio over here to make this work. That way I didn't have to make one extra trip. Pretty stupid, right? Kufia make pretty good aquatic plants. Pull this out. This guy needs to be repotted. I don't know why it's sitting there. There's no holes in the bottom, so it's not going to do anything just sitting in there. I need to fix that up. These can be grown as a marginal plant, meaning that they can grow in an area where there's just a little bit of water up around them. Really best for some of the plants to be up and out of the water. So if you have a boggy area in your yard, these will do very well. They're also really drought tolerant too. Just overall, a wonderful plant in that regard. And I'm going to squeeze this in here. Let's see if I can bring you guys up. Maybe you'll be able to see what's going on a little bit better. I want to put this underneath this can right here. This is Canada, Australia. Man, there are a lot of mosquitoes flying around me right now. That's right. I forgot the pump that's in here doesn't work. So I need to get some mosquito fish. I put the dunks in there, I swear those dunks don't work. I have a mosquito bucket I set up a while ago. I'll go have a look at it. I bet you there's probably mosquito larvae in there. This is not ideal to plant it up right now like this, but well, that's where we are. That's what we're doing. I'm going to try my best. Since this is already submerged, this is going to stir things up quite a bit. Maybe I should moisten this root ball and, well, I'd say moisten the root ball and then break it up. But I don't think that that's going to work out quite like I think it will. This plant's already just like hanging on by a thread, right? It's better than those other ones are. But I don't know if tearing at the root ball is going to be a good idea. And the water's not hot, so that's good. At least getting it wet is nice, so it's a little bit more pliable. And then if it sticks up, then it sticks up. And when the weather's cooler, I will push it down. I think this is going to be something where I have to just slowly pull at that soil. I'm going to try and shovel it all to the other side. Since this is already in water, everything wants to just settle right back down around the base of the plant. So that's the tricky part is we don't excavate enough to pull this out, get the plant down in there. There we go. I got some of that soil packed back in around it without making too much of a mess. Probably could have gotten that a little bit deeper. I think that that's going to be okay. In fact, height-wise, this is probably better. It's not sunk down too far. Maybe I can get a little bit deeper. That's a little bit too high. Let's try it again. I didn't realize that was sticking up quite as far as it was. Bring that sand over. Put my fingers down as far as I can. Scoop it back quickly. Get this guy down there. Okay, that's much better. Yeah, this is a much easier thing to do if you're doing it when your plants aren't already in the water, as I mentioned. But there we go. So that's going to thrive in there, assuming that, you know, it's not too upset about everything it's been through. And I think it's going to look really nice in there next to that Kiana Australia, the beautiful red burgundy foliage, which it's, you know, it's going through it. It's adjusting. This was bare-rooted to me from Chilili. Great company. Great pond company that's out here in St. Louis. You can order from them. They're online. They're fantastic. Very knowledgeable. And they sometimes have cupulas there at their greenhouse and with their pond plants too, which is one of the things that inspired me to do this was I saw it there in the springtime and I was like, oh, that's a great idea. And I think that'll look really pretty here. It's going to be really nice for the pollinators, especially when this is open. I think that this will probably open back up tomorrow. I don't know. It was on its third day of flowers today, so it might not open tomorrow, but there's another one coming up. The water lilies, pollinators love them. Kiana, when it flowers, pollinators really enjoy those in the cupula. I was trying to have a nice little ecosystem bowl here, mostly focused towards the pollinators and apparently the mosquitoes. There are mosquitoes everywhere right now. Yeah, it just started pouring, like just pouring and pouring and pouring for about four minutes and then it stopped. And look at the sky. It won't even come across on camera. It's just weird. I think it's from the forest fires. I can't even get it on camera. Well, whatever. We'll pick up in the morning because it's sunset plus storm plus smoke, I assume. Oh, look it. Look it. It's so much brighter in here. Not that you would know, I didn't show you how dark it was in here before, but it was very dark. This right here, it was just all Kiana. Couldn't see anything. It was just Kiana's. You can look through and we can see the beautiful mimosa and the hydrangea and it'd be much better for this magnolia tree. I know we had moved on from that, but I just wanted you all to see since it's the next day. I just looked out the window. Hi, pumpkin. Yeah, it's nice to see you too. Especially this window right here. This is just banana leaves. Couldn't see through it at all. And I really, man, I should have done that sooner. I think that, that, uh, what do you want to say, Lespedeza? Who are you? Heptacodium. The Heptacodium probably would have appreciated not having any banana growing in it, but you know, it's one of those things where it just sort of happened. Like I went out of town and all of a sudden just boom, there are 10 foot tall banana trees over there. I don't expect any damage. There's a lot of wind and stuff, but nothing compared to the usual. I think it's just going to be hot today. Oh yeah. It's stepping right into a steam room here. Oh shoot. All because I just scooted this umbrella over like what, four feet? Oh, another bloom on the Panama Pacific. It's excitedly getting close. Isn't that just a gorgeous fire? It's coming across more pink on the camera. I'm sure it'll still look that way when it goes through the editing software onto your screen. It's very much a purple with a like a pink outline. I don't know how to describe it, but it's purply pink and just absolutely beautiful. The whole plant responding very well to being in a container. How's this guy looking? Good. Yeah, I figured that that was probably the last day for the flower that was on here yesterday. It's got a new one popping up right there, so that's fine. Where'd the flower go? I usually like to pull those and toss them. Got another bud down there. Huh. It just magically disappeared. That happens sometimes. So it just started raining yesterday while I was doing the stuff with the plants. I went ahead and I just took these cupias and I set them in here so they could just wick up the moisture. And look at that. These two back here, they're looking pretty darn good. One in the front, not so much, but the ones in the back, they're fine. Pretty exciting. I was thinking about doing some troubleshooting here with this solar pump that just does absolutely nothing. I have another solar panel, but this is, yeah, this is really small. Does it say what we got going on with this one? No. Yeah, I don't know. We'll see. Nope, didn't think so. I think the problem is probably actually the pump, because this did work. It was the day after I set it up, I came out here and I could see the water circulating in there. It's not likely the solar panel. Those don't usually just stop working. And when they do, it's generally not the solar panels. The problem is just the wiring. That's easily fixed. This is probably the pump. Whatever. The water actually not that hot. I think the water always doing a good job at helping to keep the water nice and cool. Still, I usually prefer to have some type of flow just to help. No power. Okay. All right. Good. So just to help with the, what is that? The mosquitoes. Well, I don't understand why there's no power. We got electricity over here. These guys aren't on. Maybe the breaker just tripped in here. Probably. Yep. And we push that back in, cover it back up. Okay. All good. That was a little surprising. It didn't rain that much, but it was just enough water and electricity. Those don't go well together. Is the drip not running over here? Huh? Everything else looks hydrated. Just not the coleus. All right. Well, that's something to troubleshoot. I'm kind of, I want to say over it. I'm not over it, but I don't think it looks so bad to cut that back. It's kind of ridiculous. The whole situation here. I think it's really neat. I love seeing the plants exploding growth. And I noticed it's not the first time I've talked about in this video, but it's also bugging me. There's just too much happening right here. All right. So let's finish up with these guys. This one right here. This is going to need to stay someplace much more sheltered than the others where it's going to have lots of access to moisture. I almost wonder if they could pop it up here with these petunias. There's a drip up here and it gets some sun, but it's also protected. That might work. As you can imagine, I'm not as motivated to get this one taken care of right away. And really it's probably the most important one to go ahead and plant up. I feel like there's not enough light there. That's not going to probably do much. The cupia, they do need the sign to get good blooms on them. And that's, I know it seems like those are close together. They are close together, but it's just right back there into the shade. I don't know. I gotta think about that. That's fine. I have the other two here. Let's go ahead. I have a better look at them. Yeah, it looks good. And I had been planning, since I knew I had four of them coming, on putting a couple of them in here with a Thai giant elephant ear. It's just looking great, isn't it? I like the way the cupia goes with the lantana. Cupia and sun patience. I really like the way they look with lantana. And I've been wondering if maybe I just take this other one. Should I just plant this up on the other side here? I mean, I could, but I had other hopes for the other one. I thought I was going to have one more to work with, is the thing, but you know, that one's not really one I want to do much with. Yeah, I'd like to leave that open. I'd like to leave that open. So maybe we go ahead over here. Oh, it's pots. They get wet. They start to fall apart. Maybe we just do the two, which is what I've been planning on doing. Another option that I had been thinking about. I don't know if y'all are going to like this, but in this spring, this past spring, I had toyed around with the idea of doing the vermilion or cupia in this front row instead of doing the sun patience, because they just, they can be such nice, big, impressive plants. They have a lot of flower power to them and the pollinators love them. It would just be something different. The sun and patience though, I mean, they really are beautiful. This year, the sun patience will all look kind of junky, but you know, most years they look really pretty. I still think they look pretty, but there was some confusion with the orders and then some things were mislabeled, which there's no way to really know that until you get them planted up and go, oh, well, that's not what I intended on planting. Not what I thought it was planting, but you know, it's still nice. You know, they have their color, but you can see with the sun patience, there's some issues, right? With the sunlight and how that changes. That's why I need to be better because it shades them. That should help even them out, having pruned that up and pruning up the bottom of this canna right here, but I could see how cupia might, you know, that might be a good plant to work in here. Question is though, do I feel like pulling up one of these impatience to put a cupia in its place, see how it does? No, I definitely don't feel like doing that. It just looks too pretty. I don't want to mess with a good thing. Now, I actually think that this is going to end up looking very, very nice. Just need to make sure I have room here. The lantana, you know, it's spreading around and putting its, putting roots down as it spreads, which is awesome. We want them to do that, but also want to make sure that I have room over here to pop these guys into their holes. These are really deep pots. With these, you're really supposed to, I think, pull the bottom out. That's what they want you to do. I've never fully understood that. It just seems so much easier to just pull the plant out of the top of the container, but I suppose it's nice to have options, even if they are odd and just, you know, unnecessary. You can see it actually does say on here somewhere, remove tabs to plant. I don't know what they mean by remove tabs, but is this the tab? The bottom of the pot, is that the tab? Or maybe there's normally a tab right there and it's just, it's falling off the pot. I think that's more what's been going on there. So yeah, I'm not going to have all that trouble just to get the plant out of the pot. That seems unnecessary. Oh good, we have more roots over here. I was wondering, I dug the other hole over there for that other kufia and I was like, um, there should be some more roots in this container by now. We planted this elephant ear up, I don't know, close to a month ago, not quite that long ago, but still should have more roots than that. Okay, and I'm going to be very mindful here when it comes to care because this, uh, elephant ear, it's been struggling with spider mites, right? And I'm pretty sure that we've taken care of that issue, but if they do come back, then I'm going to have to do my spraying with a piece of cardboard. I take a piece of cardboard and I hold it underneath as I spray so that I don't get the stuff on the flowers. Just, you know, help protect the pollinators that way. I try not to spray during the day either. It's more of an evening activity, but so far so good. Won't really know until this actually starts to push out some new foliage and see if they decide to latch on. So these vermillion ears, these are going to fill out, but really two is plenty for this container. They're going to fill up each half of this container and have flowers that go from the tips all the way down to the bottom of those little orange tubes. This is going to be a hummingbird magnet over here. Okay, and the last one has planted up here. We'll just, we'll see what happens. The supertunia vistas are doing their thing, but they're also vistas. The vista petunias, they can just take it, you know, so they want that full summit right here. They do fine with it being filtered. They're not as big and big as they would be in the sun, but still, I mean, they're here. They're doing their thing. I pruned off some fronds that were hanging over the front here. I think that's going to help a lot with making sure that there's enough light over here for everything. I'm going to stand back looking at this palm going, you know what? It is time to come in here and actually do some more pruning on this, but I'm just not that keen on doing any more pruning in this heat. I don't really want to do anything in this heat. Surely not even the heat. It's the air quality. I just, oh, I can't feel like I can't breathe out here. I've always tried to, got to cut these parrots down. The thing is I have always tried to make it a point to only film these videos when I'm, you know, authentically in a good mood and want to be out here and doing things. We're cutting this video short. I don't want to be out here. I don't want to be doing things. I said it's not even the heat. The heat's not pleasant, but, you know, that's just summer. It just feels like summer. It's the air quality. It's just different, like, burns to breathe. Do I ever have to go inside and find scissors? I don't know. I just feel like it's always obvious if somebody doesn't want to be doing their thing. It shows through. I mean, I've pushed through videos before when I didn't really feel like it. No stranger to doing that, but this is the only scissors I have right now. It's just, I don't know. I don't want to be out here. I don't really want turbo out here either. I just assume this is because all the wildfires that are up north and on the coast, maybe. I don't know. I'm not used to having to deal with wildfire pollution, which that's a blessing. I'm certainly not complaining about that. That's for sure. I feel really horrible. People have to do this all the time, but I don't know. It's just like, and the sky's weird too. Like, everything's just an odd color. I noticed that last night. I just think like, yeah, I showed you guys last night through the window. It's just, yeah, it's smoggy and gross out. And with this heat, I'm not likely to be planting anything else up out here anyways. So that should, you know, give it another week or two. We're going to be dropping back into the nineties and just having much, much, much more pleasant weather. Mid to upper eighties, really. It would be even more pleasant. Oh, this is tricky because the sun's in my eyes. I can't see. Oh, oh, well that worked out. I didn't even need my snips. Perfect. It's like those gingerbread snippers. The only reason I have these in the kitchen is because they're, you know, it's a food. So I remember that, hey, these are supposed to be for food only as I'm outside using them for other things. This was fun. My nephew very much enjoyed these. They faded quite a bit. I don't think he's going to care. I'm going to save them for his third birthday. These kids don't care. Deflate them and pack them up with the rest of the birthday decor. That's better. Yeah, that was bugging me. All right. It's good to get something done that's, you know, I've been wanting to do. Simple as cutting some inflatables out of a tree. Yeah, no, I'm done. We're going to cut it off here. I know y'all usually like the hour long videos. I wish this would be pushing like 40 something minutes, I would think. That's a pretty good length. I'd be happy to watch a 40 minute long video. Got some small tedious things done, like just moving around a few plants, contemplating things and deciding that you can't just have your cake and eat it too, right? I mean, oh, oh, that's fine. It'd be nice to be able to see through here, but it's also just so beautiful when there's flowers on here to have this in the spot. So leave it, right? And then, of course, all of the pruning and the opening of the gardening, opening up of the garden, ventilating, getting some airflow going. Hey, comment down below. Hope everybody's doing well. And I will see y'all in the next one. Thoughts on doing the cuphea up here. You know, if you have any opinions on that, I might put a barrier up for these kianas next spring. They just stay back. Don't have to mess with them anymore. I think that'd be nice. Things look better out here than they did when we started. That's always the main goal, right? It was a productive 24 hours and I just don't feel like giving myself some type of upper respiratory infection. So yeah, I'm gonna go inside. Hey, as always, and most importantly, everybody, keep on growing. Bye.