Is it Too Late in the Fall to Plant- Nope!!!
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00:00 is an evergreen called the Pesto Mugo Pine. It came with our Isley load that they sent out earlier
00:04 this summer. Now this one only grows one by three, so it's just going to be this cute little boop in
00:10 the flower bed. I'm really excited about that. Look at the picture. Like this perfect little green
00:15 circle. And it's hardy to negative 50 degrees Fahrenheit. Not that it gets that cold here,
00:20 but it's really tough and I love having those tiny little accent evergreens that you can tuck in
00:25 pretty much anywhere that you've got a sunny spot. We've also got the fragrant Grow Low Sumax,
00:31 which are putting on their fall color in just probably, I don't know, within this next week.
00:37 This whole thing will just be lit up with red. They are so beautiful. They grow two feet tall
00:42 by nine feet wide, but they're not invasive. They're just a super tough woody shrub. So I've
00:47 got three of these around the pond already, zone three, and it says that they're pest resistant
00:53 leaves, which are not affected by drought, heat, humidity, or snow plows. When I placed the three
00:58 around the pond, I just thought this is the perfect kind of woodland plant that I want in
01:02 that area. But I had picked up five at the time because I didn't know how many we were going to
01:06 need. And three ended up over there. And then I've got these two that have just been kind of sitting
01:10 in the high tunnel waiting. And I've got lots of spots either out in the new property or here in
01:15 the South Garden where I just want something to kind of fill in. I don't necessarily need a bunch
01:19 of different variety in every location. Sometimes it's nice to have those things that just provide
01:24 a rest for the eye, which is I think what this is going to do. Then we've got the Limelight Prime
01:29 Hydrangeas, which we do have a hedge of at the end of the loop out in the South Garden. And that's
01:33 where these are going as well, just to thicken up that hedge. Now these grow four to six feet tall
01:37 and wide, so more compact than the traditional Limelight. Zone three through eight, they are
01:42 said to be a little stockier, a little bit tougher, just in their structure. But you'll see
01:47 when we get out there what happened to ours. Now ours are in there, this is their second season,
01:52 and we had a goalie washer type rainstorm, just like massive downpour of rain. And it kind of
01:57 weighted down a lot of the branches that had blooms on them. And that could be probably, I didn't thin
02:03 them out good enough last year and give them a good enough prune job. So I'm going to be very
02:06 diligent about that this year. But I think that these will bulk up the area nicely. And the last
02:11 one is up here. I couldn't fit it. Oh, hey Douglas. I couldn't fit it in the back of the gator. This
02:16 is a seske gold dwarf birch, which I love these. Two to four feet tall and wide. Let me back some
02:22 of these leaves. Dainty little leaves, zone two through seven. And when the leaves come out in
02:26 the spring, I don't know if it shows it, they're like a gold, like a orange, kind of an orangey red.
02:33 And then they lighten up to kind of a chartreuse gold color. We've got three of these out in the
02:37 South Garden, kind of by an urn out there. I might have a picture of them. And I thought that this
02:41 one would look great by the pond. It kind of has that more wild look. We got to find Cheddar,
02:47 so everybody knows he's still alive. You guys have been asking a lot about Cheddar lately.
02:50 There's Russell. See Russell right there? Come here, bud. Hey, Russell. Kitty, kitty, kitty.
02:56 He's like, "Nope, I'm not coming out there." Cheddar is around. He's just more elusive.
03:03 He sleeps a lot during the day. You know, the other thing I wanted to talk about briefly are
03:07 a couple other questions I noticed this time of year. One, is it too late to plant, or how late
03:12 is too late to plant? And two, should you still be using fertilizer when you plant? So first off,
03:17 it's really, in my book, it's never too late to plant. I feel like plants are better off in the
03:22 ground. They're better insulated than they would be if you try to winter them over in nursery
03:25 containers. So if you're picking up plants that look an awful lot like this, like end of season
03:30 clearance sales at garden centers, I'd say no matter what time it is, just get them in the
03:34 ground. Make sure that you water them in, and if you have any long, dry spells or windy spells,
03:38 make sure to go throw some water on, even in the middle of winter. Easier than trying to huddle
03:44 them together in their nursery containers and keep them watered every two weeks throughout the
03:48 winter. That's what we do with anything that we've got in containers. So I think that the rule of
03:52 thumb is to get things in the ground six weeks before your average first hard frost, which is
03:58 anything 28 degrees Fahrenheit or lower. Light frost is 28 to 32, but I don't really go by that.
04:04 We just continue to plant as long as we can manage to get a whole dug in the ground. And the second
04:08 question is about the starter fertilizer, which is this right here, which is what I use when I
04:12 plant anything, Biotone starter fertilizer. And I do still use it no matter what time of year I'm
04:18 planting because those plants, even though they look dormant and don't have leaves, the roots are
04:22 still active, albeit a lot slower than they are during the growing season, but they're still
04:27 working underneath the soil surface. And Biotone isn't a type of fertilizer that's going to
04:32 encourage a bunch of upward growth and flowering and all kinds of production up top. It's more
04:37 focused on root production down below, which is what you want. So that is something I continue
04:42 to do. Anyway, I think we'll head out to the hydrangeas first and get those planted. I've
04:46 got four. I actually think I need five to finish my hedge. I'm in a constant state of being one
04:51 short of everything around here, but I think they're going to look beautiful.
04:59 Okay, real quick, we got to take a look at this. Look at this iris.
05:03 It's so confused. It's October. What are you doing? Look at how beautiful that is.
05:10 Soak it in. I'm not going to be able to smell that again for months after this.
05:14 Oh, I love the smell of iris. It's such a childhood nostalgic smell to me. Oh, yum.
05:23 Okay, here we are. Limelight Prime hydrangea hedge. I was hoping that they would get six by six in
05:28 this spot, but you can see what the rain did. Again, I think that's because of my pruning
05:33 job that I did. So what I'm going to do today is pop one in between each one of these. Even
05:39 though I've planted the buddleia hedge right behind, I still think that that will be gorgeous,
05:42 kind of towering above the hydrangeas. But we're going to need one, two, three, four.
05:47 I've got a beauty berry right there.
05:57 Might have to move that eventually. Well, that's perfect. I don't have one for this space anyway.
06:01 Sparkling amethyst superbena mass is awesome. I mean, it's awesome.
06:08 I don't know what we could put here that I would actually like better than this.
06:14 This is so beautiful, and I hope I'm going to be able to get in there to dig holes without
06:20 wrecking it too much. Okay, let's set these out and see how they look, and then we'll make our
06:24 final decision.
06:30 Oh, that looks a heck of a lot better. Yep, we're going to go with it. We'll get those four in the
06:48 ground, and then we'll address this last one next season when we can move the beauty berry, which is
06:56 growing so great. That's the Jolene Jolene one. And then we can pop another here. And at that time,
07:02 I'm going to need more anyway, so maybe I'm not one plant short of the hedge. I kind of want to
07:06 continue on because we're going to move this hibiscus. We had like a couple more. Maybe we
07:11 need three more. Okay, let's get those in the ground.
07:20 So,
07:25 so,
07:34 so,
07:37 so,
07:43 so,
08:08 oh you guys, it's so pretty. Look at all that color. Oh, especially once we finish it to there,
08:16 and once we get this out, because this is just, it's too messy, and it's too big right there.
08:21 So, if we continue on the hedge over to kind of where the roses end, and then we can have more
08:27 of a bank, like we'll continue our bank of annuals if that's what we do next year. We'll just have
08:32 this nice big hedge of hydrangeas. It's funny when I was planting this one, for some reason,
08:38 every time I came back and stood right where I'm standing right now, just to make sure I liked how
08:42 they lined up, I would always look at this one, and I think I need to go rotate it. So, I would
08:46 go back there, which you have to go through the daylilies, back behind the plants. I come back
08:50 here, I'd rotate this one, thinking I was rotating that one, and I'd come back and stand out here,
08:55 and think what in the world? It hasn't moved. And I did that probably three times before I realized
09:00 it was this one that I kept messing with. So, there is like a little hole in here. I was trying
09:04 to rotate it so that I could get it to all line up, but eventually it will all fill in, and honestly,
09:10 the fall color, like this one's the best. Look at the color on these. I'm not sure that we, I mean,
09:17 we've had the limelights color up real pretty, but not like this. This color's amazing. Okay,
09:22 while we are out here, this is where the low-grow sumacs are going to go. So, I'm going to grab one,
09:28 and I just want to plant them sort of underneath this big Norway as just a little bit of a filler.
09:34 So, see this big area right in here? You know, I don't want to put anything that gets too tall,
09:39 because we've got the totem pole grasses. There's really not room to do anything super tall.
09:43 So, if we did something low like this, right in here, and then maybe another one right over in
09:53 there, it can just kind of fill in underneath and kind of create this beautiful leafy undergrowth
09:58 and weed suppressor and all that good stuff. So, let's get those in. Looks like we might be
10:03 getting some weather here in a little bit.
10:05 So,
10:18 so,
10:46 oh, I love these, especially once they color up even more. They're going to be gorgeous.
10:52 You know, this whole area, like all underneath here, would be beautiful just kind of
10:56 packed out with these sumacs, I think. They would be awesome. Now, kind of looking in from this
11:02 angle, you can see I tucked it in over there, and I did that on purpose because we are going to
11:07 create some kind of like a little secret, just flagstone pathway, not a formal one that's,
11:12 you know, a bunch of pieces, just like single stones that kind of get you through the flower
11:16 bed if you are over here and want to get out quickly. So, it's either going to come through
11:20 here or it will come around this side. We're not sure yet, but I think it would look good.
11:27 This strap won't be here for too much longer. It's just here when we had the tree installed,
11:33 but it'll come through here and kind of weave its way through this flower bed and out this
11:37 direction. Oh, the breeze is coming up. It's been on and off windy today, so I apologize if my
11:42 audio is horrible. Anyway, it would lead you right out here to the grass, which I think would be
11:47 really nice. But this, oh, I'm just so happy with that. And you can see the little sumac tucked in
11:54 back in there. Okay, just two plants left. I think we'll go put the dwarf birch in by the pond,
11:58 and that's where this one may end up as well, or we may end up back out here. I'm not sure on this
12:02 one yet. Leaves are falling. Pretty. Oh, hey, here's the sesquigold dwarf birch right here.
12:11 Oh, and a pretty butterfly. Look at that. Oh, on the coral berry. Aren't those gorgeous?
12:16 They shine. And those are full-size right there. They won't get much, I mean, they might thicken
12:21 up a little bit, but they're just kind of this little dainty-looking leaf in there,
12:25 kind of that ethereal look, and I just love it. They're so pretty.
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12:41 What do we think of it right there? Maybe...it's hard to tell because there's so many leaves on
12:46 the ground right now. They kind of distract focus a little bit. That looks pretty. Kind of tucked
12:54 in behind the aronia, in between the serbian. I kind of love that. Yeah, I think that's where it
13:01 should go.
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13:42 Okay, I think that these are my favorite plantings of the day. So as we walk into the pond patio area,
13:49 you can see that sesquigold dwarf birch just kind of peeking out from behind that serbian spruce,
13:54 tucked in behind the aronia that we just planted a couple of days ago. Oh, it's such a pretty
14:01 texture up there, and it's going to really show, too. Like, the brightness that it has during the
14:06 season, it's going to really contrast these spruces right here. I think it's a really pretty location
14:12 for it. And again, two to four feet tall and wide, this one gets, oh, I think like, what was it, 18
14:21 inches? 18 to 24 inches. It'll be a step down in size. And then this will be our tall grassy
14:27 texture with more red in it, and then we've got the blue. We've got all the colors that we need
14:31 right here. I love it. Say hello to the fish. There they are, a few of them. And I popped the little
14:38 pine in right by this big rock at the entryway. Because it only gets one by three, it can kind of
14:44 just fill in and tuck underneath the rock a little bit. I think it's a perfect little accent evergreen,
14:49 and it will soften that stone just a little bit. And we'll get some other things in ground covers.
14:54 I think it'd be pretty to have some sempervivums kind of like tucked up underneath here.
14:57 And then eventually we will have a brick border, so that will be the only thing that will be
15:02 semi-formal, semi-formal, about this area in the end. Because we will have a brick border along
15:08 this mulched area, like the one we have lining that pathway. So the bricks will line our entire
15:14 driveway like they do on the other side, and they will line this side as well. So that will come in,
15:18 and that will help kind of keep our line nice and tidy, and it will keep gravel from getting
15:23 into the mulch and mulch into the gravel. And I want to see the birch from this direction.
15:26 Oh, that's so pretty. I love it. And you guys, that is going to do it for planting today. We just have
15:33 really a small handful of plants that we're going to be working on over the next one or two weeks
15:37 getting in the ground. I'm hoping to get them done in the next couple of weeks anyway. And I've got
15:41 to tag dahlias. I know I started to do that a few days back, and my progress halted where we stopped
15:48 the other day. So I only have two rows done. I've got five more rows to get done before the blooms
15:52 leave, which I feel like now that the temperatures are starting to be like legitimate fall, we're
15:58 going to start losing a little bit more interest out there. Anyway, that's a different subject for
16:03 a different day. Thank you guys so much for watching this video. I hope you enjoyed it,
16:06 Now we will see you in the next one. Bye.