June Garden Tour

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8 күн бұрын

TODAY’S VIDEO:
Yeah!!! It’s our June garden Tour! Come along with me today and “Check it Out”
To send any pictures - send to:
Michelle.tlcgiftandgarden@gmail.com
Make sure pictures are in a Landscape Format
EVENTS:
We are having a cut flower extravaganza and we will be hosting it August 29th.so if you are in the area come on out and reserve a spot!
815-633-5100 You can pay with a credit card over the phone at the store.
Thursday Night August 29th - Cut Flower Extravaganza
Date: August 29th Time: 6:00-8:00 PM Location: The Landscape Connection Admission: $60.00
Grab your besties and join us for a fun night out with music, food, and a glass of wine. Pick your own flowers from the cut flower garden with Michelle and then head to the garden area to create a floral piece. Class will be led my our 2 master designers from Stems Floral. Don’t miss this great night to enjoy, create and be in community.
Call and sign up today! 815-633-5100
ABOUT ME: Hello, my name is Michelle and I own a garden center and floral store called The Landscape Connection. I am a volunteer master Gardener with the University of Illinois Extension. I am also a home gardener and a retired landscape designer and installer. If you like our videos please subscribe, like, share, and leave your comments and questions.
LINKS
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Facebook
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Website:
www.thelandscapeconnection.net/
The Landscape Connection Gift & Garden Center
4472 S. Mulford Rd.
Rockford, Illinois 61109
815-633-5100

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@maryk1668 5 күн бұрын

Don’t you just love seeing the fruits of your labor at this time of year!? I could sit on my deck and admire the view forever as I’m sure you could do with your gorgeous plantings! So many beauties!!

@gardeningTLC 5 күн бұрын

So true!

@robwillman3181 Сағат бұрын

That unknown hosta at the beginning is rainbows end and the other one looks like rainforest sunrise.

@annkendall528 6 күн бұрын

So enjoy your videos. You have the good, the bad and the not so good. Thanks for keeping it real.

@gardeningTLC 6 күн бұрын

Glad you like them!

@dustyflats3832 6 күн бұрын

Lol, my husband asked what’s that noise? I said, I think cicadas. Wow, I would need earplugs. And Lordy! What a crop of boxelder bugs!! Yikes! Looks like you have a wonderful playground. Yes, to geraniums needing sun-they crave it. The impatiens always brighten up a shady area en masse. I’m not a fan of hostas. There was a plaintan hosta here and it created a mat border and I’ve tried to get rid of it. It’s in the lawn also and one snippet of root and it’s back. I was given guacamole and do love the lime color, but will be watching for bad behavior. The astilbe I now understand why my FIL surrounded it with rocks 😅 it took a few years, but as the shade tree grew-So did It! And with all this rain it’s doing equally as well in full sun. It’s been unbearable heat, humidity and mosquitoes in WI. Can’t do anything outside so I went shopping and when you showed turtles-I got glass fish with a blue glass bubble solar light😂.

@gardeningTLC 6 күн бұрын

Love it.....and yes...the non stop noise is cicadas

@theholdenfamily5953 5 күн бұрын

I love your channel. Thank you for your enthusiasm and knowledge - between you and Laura at Garden Answer, I find a real balance of gardening goals! Thank you thank you!!!

@gardeningTLC 5 күн бұрын

Wow, thank you!

@brendahayes3365 6 күн бұрын

Beautiful! Your front area looks really nice now, funny how ‘less is more’. Your cottage garden is coming along beautiful, man it has grown so much already👍 Aww man, you just finished with a million Cicada carcasses and a new bug takes over 🤦‍♀️… I’d be throwing in the towel 😂😂! I usually don’t watch live videos as it seems I’m watching the host look at her computer screen and answering questions that weren’t read out or on the screen 🤷🏻‍♀️ but it sounds like you have a different plan which might be good. Perhaps your way will make it possible to watch it at a later time than it ran so it will make sense and be a benefit🙏🏻. Thanks Michelle, Brenda🇨🇦

@chuckkolb1270 5 күн бұрын

You make experimenting in the garden a delight as I, too, think it should be. And then there is the challenge: why is the plant doing this when it is touted to do the opposite. That's the puzzle; that's the fun.

@gardeningTLC 5 күн бұрын

It sure is. 😀

@judyanderson8782 6 күн бұрын

Well, we haven't had any measurable rain all month. So we're crisp. It's in the mid 90's most days and I can't water because of health so I think I've lost some plants which is tragic. Plants are expensive and I worked so hard on it the previous year. Have you ever counted how many plants you have? You're right to think about winter plants, so your garden won't look so bare. I put in several mungo pines and abroviataes. I need something with red twigs. Here the pansies last all winter and I had window boxes full of them which was a delight to look at.

@darlenekennedy1442 6 күн бұрын

May I send you some. We are considering building an ark. MN

@carolynhannah8757 5 күн бұрын

Have you considered drip irrigation? I put it in my garden a few years ago. It’s wonderful

@marykraft5520 2 күн бұрын

Love your enthusiasm!!

@sherrysloger4215 5 күн бұрын

Thanks for the videos! I’m down in southern Illinois outside of St Louis. We have all the same plants…they just bloom earlier. Your gardens are lovely! If we make a trip north, we’ll have to stop by your nursery.

@loriswain8140 Күн бұрын

The tour was great, gives me ideas for more stuff! Haha. Thanks Michelle.

@gardeningTLC Күн бұрын

You are so welcome!

@officiallaskardoa 5 күн бұрын

What an amazing garden❤❤❤❤❤❤

@gardeningTLC 5 күн бұрын

Thanks

@jennifergreene8891 5 күн бұрын

Love EVERYTHING!

@user-fx5sq1zc6l 6 күн бұрын

Love the little quick fire hydrangea too 💯

@PeggyMills 5 күн бұрын

I’m loving the tours, Michelle. Everything is so pretty. Looking forward to the upcoming videos.

@gardeningTLC 5 күн бұрын

Thank you so much!

@sherribrink5664 6 күн бұрын

Love your channel, love your information, love your energy, just love you.❤ So looking forward to the "cutting back" video coming soon. I'm a fairly new gardener. I can grow things, but when it's time to cut back, prune, and winterize, I do it wrong and end up killing everything. So please continue any information as the season goes on about what to do with plants once they're spent, pruning, and winterizing. Thank you.❤

@terrysmallwood1755 6 күн бұрын

I have alot of Blue My Mind Evolvulus. The blooms close in the evening and open in the morning. Love your videos!!

@gardeningTLC 6 күн бұрын

Awesome! Thank you!

@beccab7522 5 күн бұрын

Fantastic, just love listening & watching, you're so fun & real. I enjoy your videos & you definitely inspire me to add new things to my gardens❤ (from WI)

@gardeningTLC 5 күн бұрын

Yay! Thank you!

@terrypaul97045 6 күн бұрын

I have box elder bugs too! I grew up calling them Maple bugs. Because that what they were always on. I can say I hate them the most, they always fly in your face.

@hannahbeertz1231 5 күн бұрын

Everything looks really beautiful. As I watch your videos I get excited to see that I made some of the same choices for my Zone 3 garden, even if I can only grow some of the stuff you are able to plant.

@gardeningTLC 5 күн бұрын

I'm so glad!

@annkendall528 6 күн бұрын

I love the orbs you made. I’m going to have to check out how to make them.

@gardeningTLC 6 күн бұрын

The video was like in April.....

@annkendall528 5 күн бұрын

@@gardeningTLC found it👍🏻

@kristenlenox8809 5 күн бұрын

Definitely move your planters out to FULL sun. I have many of the same varieties this year and they are huge. I wish I could show you a pic of my pink lemonade Superbells & Superbena. They're full sun all day and gorgeous!

@gardeningTLC 5 күн бұрын

Already moved them 😀

@sljallen 6 күн бұрын

So informative. Can wait for the cut back !

@karenbudnick 6 күн бұрын

Quickfire is my favorite also. I had one in my yard that was grown as a tree. Stunning. Now I have an Itty bitty one with no blooms yet. Hopefully next season. I'm condo gardening with much less space.

@michellefrance1165 6 күн бұрын

Everything looks beautiful! I love my Quickfire tree my favorite too ❤❤❤ I agree maybe the pots need more sun, although I do feel this year Proven Winners annuals don't seem to be performing as well as in the past for me not sure what's going on? Although this season so far has been strange and the bugs are absolutely horrible!

@gardeningTLC 5 күн бұрын

I totally agree on the bugs!

@nicholasryan5401 6 күн бұрын

Beautiful looking gardens, they are a pollinators dream.

@merrytrujillo3229 4 күн бұрын

I'd give anything to get my hostas so big! Mine get eaten by slugs or pill bugs, every year!

@carolyn8033 6 күн бұрын

Love the cottage garden. You have the most beautiful property.

@gardeningTLC 5 күн бұрын

Thank you so much!

@lanamolczyk5139 6 күн бұрын

Beautiful!

@gardeningTLC 5 күн бұрын

Thank you!

@DownSpriggLane 6 күн бұрын

Beautiful!!

@gardeningTLC 5 күн бұрын

Thank you! 😊

@maureennordstrom4496 6 күн бұрын

Oh my gosh, you should see the box elder beetle plaTOONS I have in my garden! It’s crazy. They are EVERYWHERE

@kelleyamador8838 6 күн бұрын

Wonderful video!

@gardeningTLC 5 күн бұрын

Thank you very much!

@sandraconner6968 6 күн бұрын

I'm glad to see you have earwig and slug damage to your hostas like I do. The earwigs arw the worst! Plus what a year for boxelders bugs! What's the deal with them? Further south of you, we don't have the cicadas at all!

@gardeningTLC 6 күн бұрын

I think it is a combo of all the rain and the mild winter......bugs always seem to be plentiful after one.

@dennymeyer1287 Күн бұрын

I love those willow orbs. so cool! my lemon lace elderberry also went to green. do they come back chartreuse,? I love all of your hostas so pretty all of the colors. Do your black eyed susans spread all over the gardens.I'm thinking of taking mne out, alot of work to keep them contained. the little red barn garden.. love love and the walkway in front. so pretty, thank you for sharring! Genie : )

@gardeningTLC Күн бұрын

In the sun they will...in shade I am thinking they will stay green and just be chartruse in the spring before all the leaves unfurl on the trees they are under.

@dennymeyer1287 19 сағат бұрын

@@gardeningTLC Well darn, thanks so much. i have it againist my back wood, and was hoping to brighten up that area.. Ummmm need to rethink that area now. lol,

@lesliem4492 6 күн бұрын

what about lambs ears for silver foliage near driveway. dont need a lot of water either.

@rosemarythyme6351 6 күн бұрын

Your Willow Orbs are the cat's meow! 😻They look so quaint as does your v-shaped hanging baskets! By your AC, I love the layering effect you achieved. Beautiful and inviting to walk down the steps and see more of your garden! That's the goal of landscaping, right - lead you from one area to the next. I love Quick Fire and Oakleaf Hydrangeas, too. I need to expand my collection of Mopheads and add more texture in my Front Garden. Just wondering...have you ever grown Elephant's Ear?

@gardeningTLC 5 күн бұрын

Yes but I can never get them big enough...and the whole starting them early, digging them up, storing...I try to avoid that whenever possible.

@rosemarythyme6351 5 күн бұрын

@@gardeningTLC Yeah, I hear ya. Lots of work. Better to find a perennial or shrub to provide height and can be used as a focal point, but what? That's where I get stuck! Like a plant that folks will point at and say, "What is THAT?!"

@BarbDeLisle 6 күн бұрын

Michelle, your gardens are looking good and really coming together. 🌺 I was thinking instead of the loosestrife what about a drift of penstemon? Onyx and Pearls or Midnight Masquerade? Would look good with the red foliage colour and the hummingbirds love it!

@gardeningTLC 6 күн бұрын

Hmmm...that is a good idea too...I might have room to layer both..maybe...I will have to think about that one...

@kimedge7493 6 күн бұрын

What fun to see your gardens! I think I can identify two of your hostas. They are both vase shaped. The blue one is Krossa Regal and the big white-edged one with a lantern stuck in it is Sagae, or I will eat my hat! I think you are right about your pots needing more sun, especially that one with the plant in the center that you mentioned not being silver. I think it is turning green from lack of sun. Maybe in that hot spot by the driveway where the black eyed Susans are would be happier with a variegated sedum? I think that it's an interesting foliage plant. Maybe there's another succulent that would be prettier. Your property looks GREAT. My goodness it is big. Look out Klehm, you have company! :D

@gardeningTLC 6 күн бұрын

I think the Krossa Regal is correct....I'm thinking the lantern hosta is not Sagae...might be wrong and then I will be eating my hat.....I will let you know.

@kimedge7493 6 күн бұрын

@@gardeningTLC It was formerly known as H. fluctuans 'Variegated'

@user-wf8xm1lq4g 3 күн бұрын

Great tour, love your garden, but did you show us your back garden by the wooded lot?

@gardeningTLC 3 күн бұрын

The cottage garden? Yes but briefly

@bonniemccormack1361 6 күн бұрын

I love loosestrife 😊 I thought I was the only person that does lol I have a yellow one that stayed well behaved in my garden. I recently moved and my neighbour hates it and has been throwing it away for years so the property nearby has a small wild field of it growing 🙄 I wish I had some of all colors 😊 Thanks for sharing your hard work, it looks fabulous 😊 Also, do you like gladiolus? I had 18 last year and this year the bulbs seemed to have tripled and I have no idea where to put them. They’re just temporarily growing in my veggie garden and seem quite content there 😅 My flower garden doesn’t seem to be offering me a spot for them. My knockout roses were doing great but now only two out of the four are blossoming, not sure why the other two are sleeping 😢 Thanks again for the videos 😊

@gardeningTLC 6 күн бұрын

I do like glads...but here you have to dig up the bulbs in winter..and that I don't like to do.

@bonniemccormack1361 5 күн бұрын

I have to as well and I don’t care for that either. None of my lily bulbs came back but the glads went hog wild.

@rvbliss Күн бұрын

New subscriber. Catching up on Your channel. 😊

@gardeningTLC Күн бұрын

Thanks for subbing!

@TheDancinfool77 4 күн бұрын

Your videos are so helpful! Hi neighbor, I live in Rockford as well! I’d like to ask how you are controlling the earwigs this year?! They are everywhere and are destroying some of my beloved plants. I’ve been killing as many as I can and sprinkling DE nearly everywhere! Any suggestions/tips?

@gardeningTLC 4 күн бұрын

Yes they are bad this year. I am using the Captain Jack's bug and slug repellant from Bonide

@carmenbailey1560 6 күн бұрын

👍❤️🙂

@WillaLoomis 6 күн бұрын

i was thinking that kniphofia would look good where you were thinking of putting loostrife.

@gardeningTLC 6 күн бұрын

I don't think it will be tall enough....plus it does not grow very well in clay.....but I love the plant...maybe in a new bed next year that we berm up for drainage and good soil.

@moniquehamilton7391 4 күн бұрын

Hi Michelle, can you tell me how you built the walkway through your backyard garden? It seems to be weed free…

@gardeningTLC 4 күн бұрын

Cored it out...laid thick fabric, leveled in sand. Installed flagstone and topped with medium.size river rock.

@rosesmith6208 5 күн бұрын

my chickens would make quick work of those bugs without damaging the ground they would attack like pirahna,

@gardeningTLC 5 күн бұрын

Wish I had time for chickens. My daughter has them....been thinking about it.

@kimlundquist3475 6 күн бұрын

Is that small hosta at the beginning a rainforest

@gardeningTLC 6 күн бұрын

I don't think so...kick myself for loosing the tag.......it is too small

@kimchartier7689 6 күн бұрын

have you tested your water ?

@gardeningTLC 6 күн бұрын

No. I know it is high in iron....but I have not had any issues in 7 years.. "knock-knock"

@kimlundquist3475 5 күн бұрын

How about rainbows end

@gardeningTLC 5 күн бұрын

Maybe....I thought that too....bit I don't remember it...the name that is.....sometimes if I hear the name..I'm like "That's it"

@cindyrae2605 5 күн бұрын

Wei-ge-LA instead of Wei-ge-LIA.

@gardeningTLC 5 күн бұрын