Thank you Ting! 💚💚💚 You are super 🙏🙏🙏

Thank you Jolie! Bathsheba roses are beautiful 🤩…give her a season and she will climb and bloom beautifully next season. Happy gardening!

Raciss!

Thank you ADK! We got rain but it was not enough to wet the mulch. 🌧 We need more rain….our grass is definitely “burning” from all the early heat/sun…roses and clematis are most beautiful at this time of the year…I wished I had more space for more. Happy gardening 💚🙏💚

Thank you Margie! Happy long weekend! 💚🙏💚

Thank you D Roar! 💚🙏💚

Thank you Peggy! 💚💚💚 I’m so glad you enjoy them as much as I do. 🙏🙏🙏 These videos are what I also prefer to watch myself…especially at times when I need to wind down and/or during the long winter days when I need a little boost to help remind me of the warmer spring days when I could garden 🪴 again.

Thank you aramhouse! 💚🙏💚

I do talk to many people in the neighborhood…lol…may be a bit too much?! 💚💚💚

Thank you Ibi! We got them in the spring of 2009 and they were considered to be “in” at the time and have using them for very year since then. I still like them and are in the process of looking for a seamstress to make new covers for the furniture. Hopefully we will be able to use them for many more years. 💚💚💚

Thank you so much for your kind words G Graham! 💚💚💚

Thank you Zaleha! Have a wonderful week! 💚🙏💚

Oh…thank you so much…I could see on IG your garden is absolutely gorgeous now! 💚💚💚

Happy weekend to you Jeanette 💚🙏💚

You are welcome 🙏 Ru Lu! 💚🙏💚

Thank you so much 💚🙏💚👋

Thank you 😊

Hope you will get your dream garden soon! 💚💚💚

Thank you Helen…that windstorm we had gave me a scare. Have a great week! 💚🙏💚

Hi HeidiT, Hope you got more rain 🌧 than us here…we barely got the mulch wet. Happy gardening 💚🙏💚

Thank you Ana! 💚🙏💚

Thank you 🙏 Jasmine! 💚💚💚

That’s great nmleung! Have fun plant shopping &. Happy gardening! 💚🙏💚

Penstemons are one of my favs! Happy gardening Marcia. 💚💚💚

Thank you so much! I was worried that day watching the garden from the house. I was literally watching the vines swaying in the wind and telling myself to get the garden clips ready if things get worse. 🤣 One of our Limelight on the east side of the back garden almost got uprooted too! It is now leaning away from the fence. I’m afraid of disturbing the roots as it is about to bloom…will have to wait until next spring to anchor it back in place. Some of our neighbours were not so lucky and had trees and/or branches falling down on their car. Happy gardening

Thank you Susan! We are lucky to be right across from the ravine which is apart of the Green Belt…Chickadees are everywhere. 💚🙏💚

Garden soil with perlite or sand is most suitable to root hydrangea cuttings…you will definitely get 100% success. Rooting them in garden soil works but not as close to the soil perlite mixture. Your collection of hydrangeas is great. Pinky Winky is one I do not have and love as well. Happy gardening 💚🙏💚

Thank you 🙏…DA roses are very pricey and always sell out. Since the pandemics, they have gotten more popular and so one rarely sees DA roses on the shelf…nurseries says that you can only get them by special order. I sometimes see other roses go on sale but never DA roses. I agree with the outdoor furniture - we will definitely continue to use them until they break apart. Thank you again & Happy gardening 💚🙏💚

💚🙏💚. Thank you 🙏

Hi Andrea, That was us 6 years ago. New constructions have the worst possible garden soil…devoid of any soil decomposers. I still recall that 1st year…all the sweat of digging and tilling we did….all the rocks and boulders and gravel we dug out of the garden beds. You will definitely be rewarded in the coming seasons. Happy gardening Andrea! 💚🙏💚

@@TracysHomeGarden thank you, that definitely sounds similar to how our summer has been! 😆

You are too kind. Bobo is my fav dwarf panicle hydrangea. You will not regret planting hydrangeas in your garden as they provide so much colour for so many months out of the year. Happy making LL tree! 💚💚💚

Yes, unfortunately I too have plenty of bugs 🐛😳😳😳

Hi Bobbie, I too have problems with soils being suitable for the pests….😊. I planted an English daisy, a perennial lobelia and a few other plants that were eaten by the pests in the soil. If you have been watching some of the other videos you may know that I’m most fond of using the least fertilizer in the garden as possible. I know that roses and clematis (especially roses) tend to do better with a lot of food and/or fertilizers so I don’t have too many choices other than giving them rose food. I know while growing up my parents usually give their roses a lot of liquids that they saved aside after cleaning fish and stuff like that to their roses and thus they didn’t need to feed their roses with fertilizers. This sounds good but is not practical for me so I think feeding rose food to them is most suitable for my life style. I’m so flattered by a seasonal gardener like yourself…when you say you learned for me. 💚💚💚 Thank you so much Bobbie! 🙏 I usually save aside used coffee grounds and give to my plants…which serves as a source of nitrogen. I’m a coffee and tea drinker and saving so this makes perfect sense for me. Every 2-3 years I add about 2-3” of leaf compost on top in the spring. That is pretty much everything that I do for the garden. Hope that helps. Happy gardening Bobbie! 💚🙏💚

@@TracysHomeGarden thanks Tracy! I’m now not just saving and cooking my eggshells (& whoever gives me theirs) but adding tea/coffee grounds! Lol. Always learning! And always a work in progress!

Thank you 🙏 so much! DA roses are my most favorite and are very popular in our area. They usually sell out and must be ordered directly from the nursery in autumn. I was thinking that if they don’t survive I may never be able to get my hands on one…unless I order directly from DA website. I did a video on what I use to reduce the chance of fungus killing the clematis vines. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jbaDi7ecxpbVfZ8.html Hopefully you can find the product and give it a try on your clematis. Happy gardening!

We definitely had a very strange year so far…extreme cold/heat/snow….so sorry to hear you’ve lost some roses. Perhaps, you can try to plant them a few inches deeper than in the can and cover the base with with 4-6” plants f mulch or compost before the 1st frost…that was what I always did in my previous garden when I had roses that were not as hardy.

Thank you Iris RR! I started the garden back in fall of 2016. The home was a new built in a new subdivision so we practically started with builder’s “top soil”. Looking back at the garden now, I realize all that work I did to improve the soil was so worth it. I don’t think people realize how important the soil is to a garden. 💚💚💚

@@TracysHomeGardenThat is so so true! The most important thing!

Hi Tracey, It is about 5+ ft…but I think you need at least 6ft for better airflow. Happy gardening 💚🙏💚

Hi Elaine, Bobo hydrangeas don’t need fertilizers. All you need is a cup or two of leaf compost or composted manure every spring or so. Happy gardening Elaine. 💚🙏💚

Hello there, The high intense heat in zones 8+ can can cause damage, poor health/growth to the plant and the plant may respond by not blooming as well. Since your climate is “cooler” you may get away with planting in your zone. Because your season is longer and the sun is more direct (and intense), I recommend you planting it in an area that gets only morning sun when the heat is not as intense…and don’t forget to water slow and deep to keep it happy. Happy gardening!

No, they will bloom next year. The plants will mature and feed the bulbs to store nutrients for blooms next season. Hope that helps. Thanks 🙏 Brooke.

We garden in equivalent to zone 5A. Thank you Cathy. 💚🙏💚

Do you mean “no” blooms? There are a few reasons: 1) not getting enough sun…zones 6-8 you can get away with less sun but the blooms may be delayed 2) the plant was over fertilized; hydrangeas are not heavy feeders like roses and clematis; they tend to need very little food; you should feed hydrangeas by adding 1-2 cups of compost per plant in spring. If you have poor soil, you can add some fertilizer but I would add 1/2 of the recommended amount - less is always more 3) the plant buds may have been eaten by deers or 🐇. 4) the blooms may be delayed as the plant is trying to get rooted in. Hope this helps to eliminate possible reasons.

Yes, river rocks will do. Some people put garden fabric underneath but I find that the fabric makes it more difficult for us to pull the weeds out. 💚

Edmonton - you may be able to plant them in containers and winterize them in an unheated garage. They may not do well in ground. Hopefully you can find a way to enjoy roses. 🤞🤞🤞

Hi Kaido, During the hottest days of summer, I hand water the plants every 2-3 days….usually in the morning. I water each plant deep - to make sure they are hydrated. Drip systems don’t work well for us due to the deep thaw/freeze in our garden zone. In our previous garden, we had a drip system, and we set up two 2 gal/hr emitters per mature hydrangea and set it for 20-30 mins and run it twice-three times a week during the hottest part of summer. Our spring and fall are usually wet and mild so we usually run it once a week or none (depending on how much rain we get). Hope that helps.

We have bees 🐝…but you are right about butterflies 🦋…not sure if I have seen any this season yet. We have weigelia, salvia, Penstemon…they all help to attract pollinators. Hope you can plant more of them to attract pollinators.