Hi Jim, please please do a video on Plants with Jim on that mock orange. It's gorgeous!

👋🏻 Stephany, it’s nice to see you and I really like the story behind the peony find. 🌷💚🙃

'Do Tell' is beautiful. Love the rescue story.

Thank you Jim and Stephany. 🌷💚🙃

I’m still at the “Oh, I see you there, hurray, you’re alive!” stage, but the lungwort, hyacinth and primrose are flowering.

Steph I love that your son brought you that peony. It’s such a cool story. I love plants with stories as well. I have a couple. What’s growing and looking gorgeous right now in my garden is my Jade Eyes Allium(I think they’re way too early), narcissus daffodils, petunias and supertunias, scabiosa is starting to bloom, and my let’s dance can do hydrangea(Jim I told you how I almost killed that one last year lol) it’s leafed out with blooms everywhere, and my meet petite rose is a giant this year but it hasn’t bloomed yet. I’d say it probably has at least 300 blooms on it at the moment which to me is absolutely insane. It didn’t bloom like that last year but it was a new addition. Anyway the petite is nearly the same size as my neighbors full size knock out rose. I cut it back last year even though it said it didn’t need to be.

Steph, love your peony. I planted my first peony too deep and wondered why it never came up. Two years ago I planted a Sarah Bartlett with little hope. It came up! Last year healthy with no blooms, did not mind it was so healthy. Finally as finally learned…it bloomed so beautiful this year. So exciting. I totally get your excitement!!

That peony is gorgeous!!

A co-worker told me the plants know when you’re gone. However, your garden looks great! A thriving rescue plant brings great joy to the gardener.

The garden looks beautiful Jim. Very excited about your upcoming conifer video. I am redoing my front foundation plantings and want ideas for compact evergreen shrubs for zone 5. Stephany, your peony is beautiful, what a sweet son. Happy gardening!

Love that Peony!!! ❤

Oh I love the peony and the story behind it. I have had that exact one for many years now. They are my favorite flower because of their beauty, longevity, and little care needed. There is a cemetery near me with peonies at a grave stone, and those peonies are 70 yrs old.

I LOVE that your "Do Tell" peony has a story!! I have that one and I love it!

I will enjoy the upcoming conifer video. I have had some great success so far in Sanford ,NC with my conifer collection. I think when they break buds with new spring growth, that they are as attractive as any flower.

Can't wait to see your new containers. Steph, that will always be a special plant for you from your son! I'm preparing for a freeze tonight here in southern WV! uhhh, so many shrubs are blooming now and I sure hope I can save most.

I planted the blue eyed grass last year after you recommended it - so pretty and long-blooming. Love it! Thanks!

Your garden is such a vibrant place! I love it. I live on Cape Cod, just 7a. We did not have the December freeze, and had a very mild winter. I enjoyed a wonderful gardening winter. Then in February we had about 4-6 hours where the temps zoomed down to way below zero and then shot back up to the 40’s. My hydrangeas predictably were hit hard and I only have growth from the bottom. The surprise has been the loss of quite a few of my roses, most I have had for at least 10 years. And one butterfly bush. And I am not alone. It is the talk of the Cape!

When you do the container video, can you mention the new self watering containers? I’d like to know if they really work and how much it cuts back on watering. Thanks Jim.

Oh, my, I am going to have to check out the blue-eye grass! Love the story about the peony and the rescued peach tree. Feels so good when a plant is brought back from the brink with love and care. My coastal Chesapeake, VA 8a garden is growing by leaps and bounds. We usually do not have a proper spring here, it jumps right into the heat but this spring the temps have been mild and the plants are loving it. Glorious daffs gave way to bearded irises and now the roses are popping. All the perennials are budding. One thing I have noticed is a lot of aphids but closer inspection has shown the ladybugs and hover flies are on duty.

I loved seeing you Steph! Your peony is absolutely gorgeous! Yay! 🫶🏻🥰💃🏻💘

My most impressive shrub right now is the Little Henry sweetspire. It looks amazing!

Love seeing your garden! Ours has exploded! Bearded, Siberian, wall and Dutch Iris are all blooming. Loads of peonies, salvia, dianthus, mock orange, viburnum, red twig dogwood, encore azaleas, wisteria, euphorbia, Columbine, honeysuckle, roses, huercheras, and annuals of course. The hostas, yarrow, penstamen and bee balm are budding up well. The Lenten roses are still looking great. Just planted dalias for the first time, and put out petunias. Added baptisia, plumbago, new salvia and more that I’m looking forward to in the future.

I live in Wichita, KS, zone 6B. I had a beautiful spring show. However, now my garden is transitioning from spring to summer. I have alliums in bloom. I have some violas and some pansies. I also have some annuals I bought. I am waiting on my seeding to start taking off. All in all things are looking good.

Forsythia, daffodils, Siberian iris, hyacinths, grape muscari and squill (south central Wisconsin). Good to see Steph and I'm one who loves plants with a story too.

Loved the Paeony story Steph - nothing more beautiful than a rescued plant😊 Tulips here in South East UK have been the best I've ever seen them - I think we had similar freezes to you but followed by a slow, cool spring - still not warmed up yet so they've been going for weeks.

I loved Stephanie's story. I'm trying peonies for the third time. I've done the research and hope I've finally found the best spot for it. Thanks as always for your information that you so gladly share!

Steph, after graduating from NCState my daughter moved to Denver..on a visit, I collected seeds from her echinacea, started some seeds and planted here in my Raleigh garden. I think of her every time I pass these little cuties !🥰

I have a peony that someone gave me, found in a compost heap! It took a couple of years to bloom, but has five blooms this year. I usually have a gap at this point in my yard. I have a few rhododendron starting to bloom, lovely German iris, a fringe tree, Honesty is just finishing up. I value some of the later blooming azalea that extends that very strong color in the garden. I have a few of these in bloom. I have a garden carved out of the woods in Hillsborough, NC. We are usually just a bit behind you in Raleigh. I am just staring to set out some annuals. Only catmint, Walkers Low, is blooming now along with a few snapdragon among my perennials.

I just love and enjoy both of you so much! I keep learning every video! 😊

The December event really took a toll on our garden BUT the Defoliated Oakland Holly trees are starting to leaf out, the distylium are leafing out, Lorapetulum are still iffy. I would 99% of bulb/rhizome type plants all come back as did 5 out of 6 hydrengeas. The one that didn't survive was in a pot. Our Carolina Sapphire trees are greening back up slowly too. Our garden is zone 7 East TN Knoxville area.

My coneflowers, black eyed Susans, goldenrod, nodding onion, aster, butterfly weed and milkweed are in their second season and growing like crazy. All 5 of the tiny shrubs and trees (button bush, Carolina all-spice, mock orange, fringe tree, smoke tree) planted last year survived the December freeze. 👍🏼 Very happy. Knoxville, TN. 7a.

Here in Se MI everything started to wake up when we had the week of 80s but has since been cool with many frosty mornings. So everything is like in limbo just completely stopped in there tracks from when it was warm. Especially the trees they just barely started to push the leaves and have been stuck like that for a while now. It’s been weird seeing them like that for so long

My Delores did not take the cold well and I even covered them. I have one little off shoot that I’m going to dig up and move to another area. It will be next to a fence so perhaps a bit more protected. My salvias are blooming well as is my red riding hood Penstemon. It’s seems to be a more coral red and I love that.

Lovely video J&S! Please could you teach us how long we can cut perennial plants (how many times) before we leave them to flower for the season? Thank you.

My peonies are doing great this year. I planted a ‘Coral Sunset’ one last autumn and it has the most beautiful shrimp-colored bloom. It bloomed about a week.

The only pansies that are hanging on are the purple & yellow. Blooming away over ugly foliage & fairly stunted. Still chilly so I'll tolerate them a bit longer. I like that Mock orange! Love the Peony Stephany, I have some "people" plants too. No Peonies yet. My Blue Eye grass is stunning right now too

The view of you standin front of your shed...absolutely stunning! The pop of color stands out, especially the light to lime green!. Me peonies are coming up beautifully and my Helleborus is in full bloom along eith my 3 Bleeding Heart bushes. I look forward to them blooming every year. It my first sign of spring in my garden in 5 b/6a.

Nice spring garden developments. I moved from Raleigh to Pensacola FL in May 2019 to zone 9A so I now do more tropical gardening but still enjoy seeing your place and sometimes miss some of the plants you can grow in that zone and the 4 seasons and fall colors

Yay! The video I've been looking forward to seeing

SO MUCH FUN to come back to a beautiful garden after being away, huh??? YAAAY !!! Jelly that everything in your region is coloring up! We get two days of sun here in the Cleveland, OH area, then 3, 4, 5 days of clouds and rain. Yes the grass looks nice and green, but it's hard gettin' out!! 😒

Everything is so beautiful

Looking good!

I got a discounted peony in fall of 2020. There were no blooms in 2021, which I expected, the foliage looked good though. It had two blooms in spring 2022. I was looking forward to this year, and nothing, but the foliage looks great, very bushy and healthy. I think it just isn't getting quite enough sun for blooming. I guess it needs to be moved, but that is going to be like starting all over.

Great video! Today I cleaned up my banana tree and put red mulch around the area. 👍

Definitely lookin' good!

In central Illinois. The daffodils have all finished blooming, my creeping phlox is gorgeous right now and my Solomon’s seal is looking great. Like Steph, it’s one of my favorite plants. Everything else is starting to get buds and slowly waking up.

Enjoyed all the plants ! Great video.

Would you ever do a cutting of that mock orange for somebody local?

Super garden❤❤❤

7b north Atlanta suburb. Encore azaleas took a hit, bloomed a little, but will need a hard prune because they look leggy. Old mophead azalea leafing out vigorously from the bottom; no blooms. Courtyard elevated potted heuchera was the star of the show this spring and is still blooming! My potted violas did well, too, on same courtyard. Maybe the flagstones provided some warmth?

My garden now has tulips blooming along with fawn lilies and epimediums. So colorful! Still cool here on east Vancouver island, south of Nanaimo, BC, Canada. Our place is two blocks from the ocean. Close to your zone 7b.

Your garden is lovely! Thanks for showing us all that is blooming and growing. Stephany, love the peony and the story behind it! (I collect vintage/antique Singer sewing machines, and when my son came to visit recently, he brought me a machine he had picked up at an estate sale. Love our boys!) My garden is being planted basically from ground zero, and I have always wanted peonies. What is blooming in my garden? Red buckeye is still blooming. I have a mystery plant that I think will turn out to be an ilicium, but am looking every day to see what kind of flower it makes to help me identify it (hoping it is a native). I was so diligent last year about not getting poison ivy (we had a half acre of it), but this year I got into it big time, although it was only the vine I was trying to cut off of a tree, and I just forgot that it was poison ivy. Well, It's all over me now! Not fun! Headed today to the nursery to pick out yaupon holly, inkberry holly, and carissa holly to replace the foundation plants lost in the December deep freeze. Thank you again for the wonderful videos and information!

Zone5b WI here. Hosta are up about 1". 🥰

Hi Jim. Your garden looks super lush & colorful! Everyone can relate to Steph’s story… especially these big box stores throwing out plants all the time. It’s kind of sad but I ended up getting a creeping phlox last Spring that Home Depot was discarding & you should see it in my garden today.

Loving the mock orange! Interesting color on your columbine too. Currently still enjoying our ninebark blooms (& pink fruit). They look fantastic this spring (I think they liked the cold blast!). Other favorites this week include white salvia greggii & marley’s pink weeping styrax.

Great video! That fig looks so healthy. Mine (Little Miss Figgy) is leafing from the bottom with very few buds on old wood. The only plant that isn’t coming back is a white butterfly bush. It was new to the garden last year. Zone 7b ATL

I live just east of Raleigh! So good to listen to someone who knows the area. I want to plant a couple of things in an area under some trees. How do I do that or what do I use to tackle roots I run into?

So glad you mentioned the hydrangea status. Mine are all coming from the bottom as well (the old wood blooming). So glad to know it is zone wide.

Lovely video as always! Nice color on your potted peach tree. Do you know the variety?

Hi Jim! Love your video as always! In the next one for conifers, I was wondering if you could touch upon how to prune conifers since I’m struggling with my golden mop cypress way overgrowing the small garden bed. 😊

I’m in zone 9b Central Valley. I just purchased some hostas and learned last night earwigs will devour hostas ..please give advice on how to keep them alive…I did spray the inside and outside of the hostas and put bio advanced tree shrub around the base of the hostas.

The phenomenon of a bit of a weird winter and early spring begs a question I have. I have a Scarlet Fire kousa dogwood sapling that I planted a little over a year ago. It is a grafted tree, and it has not leafed out but there are leaves very near the graft union (just below graft) just above ground level). 8:45 The topmost branch trips are still pliable and greenish-white underneath. Do you think it’s still living? Thanks!

Thanks Jim. Can you please recommend which shrubs or trees I can grow along a wall which gets sun all day, what I am concerned about is finding trees, shrubs that do not havev invasive roots to the foundation of our home.

The mock orange is a beautiful plant but i've read it can grow very big. Can it be pruned to a desired, more manageable height and width, like 4'x5'? Thanks, love your videos.

Jim, I live in VA and have called nurseries from Richmond to Roanoke. None have this mock orange. I am willing to drive to NC for it. Where did you purchase yours????

I don’t know, Jim. The fig I attempted to move had roots unlike other woody shrubs. It was kind of a beast to move, and it didn’t survive.

Did you have any Lady’s Mantle? I think I lost all of mine in southwestern Indiana 😢

7b north Atlanta. My 25yr old camellia japonica looks dead, but there are a few tiny leaves peeping out from the interior. It’s right at the front of the house. Save or replace?

At the 15:28 mark, what is that plant right in front of you with the reddish/orange tinge to it?

Everything seems to be blooming between 2-4 weeks early. Im starting to worry there will be nothing left to bloom later in the season. Black eyed Susan are starting to bloom even

Is the Bignonia as hard to keep under control as Carolina jessamine? I’ve been battling mine for years and the shoots it sends out in every direction under the soil are so frustrating that I’m ready to dig it up. Could this be a possible replacement along my fence? Or will it react similarly to the jessamine?

In regards to Vaccineum Rosa's Blush, the state botanical garden in Athens Georgia used a complexion pink tulip ( in a pink- white variety blend) that was a perfect echo for It. I believe it might be the pink tulip in ColorBlends' 'Miss Confection' tulip blend. I would like to know exactly which pink tulip is represented in that particular blend. Does anyone know?

Jim I've seen a lot of a plant with the pieris type flower in the woods on hikes in upstate SC/NC... Know what it might be?

I have blue-eyed grass everywhere. Is it a native plant of the south? (I'm SC 8a) I love it too. I also have the yellow version growing everywhere, and then occasionally, I see white ones. They all are just growing naturally, I haven't planted any of it.

How cold did it get there in December?

I'm in the UK and my nandina has dropped it's leaves after the cold will it come back to life?

Is there a trick to keeping the Leucothe alive? I planted 2 in partial to mostly shade in zone 8b last spring and within a month one completely died and the other died within 3 months. I made sure to water them, especially after the first died. I like them but am hesitant to replant them since I don't know what happened - so I cant correct the issue.

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Still missing two hastas 🤷🏻‍♀️

I forgot the name of your weeping redbud.

Take this as constructive criticism. Although you are very knowledgable with you plants in your area being a nursery owner, you seem not to have a very visual garden design that emphasizes the plants in your garden. If you don't acquire a design in your space plants look thrown together, chaotic to the eye and never fully appreciated for its special beauty. If space is a concern choose the plants you love the most and down size. Tips from a garden designer.

Wish you would start saying what is and isn't native. Maybe you don't think it matters.