Free ways I'm making my garden better
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Жыл бұрынIn spring, I shop. In fall I make the most of everything my garden can offer for free. This means dividing and moving plants to create new gardens, extend existing ones or just improve the gardens I have.
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My name is Erin and I love sharing inspiration and information with real-life gardeners. I live and garden in southeastern Wisconsin, zone 5b.
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@MelodyHopkins Жыл бұрын
I love your practical approach. So many of us can't buy hundreds of different plants as other garden KZfaqrs are able to do.
@sweetpeasandyarrowaranchdi8327 Жыл бұрын
Watch Gardener's World to learn how to seed and propagate every plant their ever was.
@katiesoderling3596 Жыл бұрын
@@sweetpeasandyarrowaranchdi8327 Love Gardener’s World!
@anniecampbell8554 Жыл бұрын
So agree - love the ideas from other channels but for those of us who aren’t gardeners sponsored by major brands we must learn to do it the old fashioned way (and, frankly, the more sustainable way).
@GardeningSpirit Жыл бұрын
Congrats on 100K Erin! Your gardens look fantastic!
@alw5101 Жыл бұрын
YESSSSSSSSSSSS Erin CONGRATULATIONS ON 100K‼️✨🤍
@helenjackson2971 Жыл бұрын
Just a bit of plant trivia: Hakone is a lovely resort town on a lake at the foot of Mt Fuji, hence the origin name of the grass also called Japanese Forest Grass.
@alw5101 Жыл бұрын
I love the look of that grass it one that I do not yet have in my garden! ✨🤍
@mt2766 Жыл бұрын
Yes, FWIW, it’s pronounced HAH-ko-neh (vs. HAK-an-uh). 🙂
@nwketchy5074 Жыл бұрын
Bunnies ate my hakone grass I’ve had for 10 years!
@helenjackson2971 Жыл бұрын
@@mt2766 Arigato, yes, it makes me a little crazy because it is so often mispronounced I’m so many different ways!
@donnasantamaria8317 Жыл бұрын
@@nwketchy5074 Aww, I'm so sorry to hear this. I was planning on planting some Hakone grass but we have bunnies too. Thank you for sharing.
@anitahadley2871 Жыл бұрын
This is real life gardening. Spreading the love in your own garden is the best!
@Sullivan_Owen Жыл бұрын
I think somebody, maybe Monty Don said that landscaping is planting it and never touching it again while gardening is the seasonal work of planting, growing, dividing, moving, sharing and enjoying. As I move on to my last 1/3 of my renovations, dividing and replanting has been so helpful in stretching the initial plant budget! And congratulations on 100K, please share when you get your Play button xo, SO
@emilygrant9606 Жыл бұрын
I like to walk around my parents’ garden with a shovel. My dad is happy that the plants will get to live on in my garden, and I get a nice memory of my mom.
@gailwhite822 Жыл бұрын
I had that same idea of dividing plants & moving them around to new areas. I found a bunch of slate in my yard too so I’m making a path to get the wheelbarrow through the side of my yard. Love free stuff!
@garykandmimisgarden1662 Жыл бұрын
Love your channel. Specially love this video. It's so refreshing to see someone multiplying their own plants in an established garden. Gardening books will tell you that you are bringing rhythm into your garden by repetition. Another option is to beg (borrow or steal) plant divisions from friends, relatives, or neighbors. The advantage of doing this is that the plant will forever remind you of the person you got it from.
@sitaylor2946 Жыл бұрын
My god. The way that shovel went right into the ground. Your soil is gorgeous
@shannonshunk8897 Жыл бұрын
Love your sweatshirt. Thanks for representing MI. I live in Southeast MI, in a suburb of Detroit. Mackinaw is a state treasure. Great channel, keep up the work. 🌻
@ladikmk Жыл бұрын
That’s really the best part of gardening - being able to divide and fill in more areas. Also, being able to share them with others makes me happy too. Thanks for sharing Erin! Enjoy that sunshine. My lawnmower is calling me lol.
@gwenatilano9481 Жыл бұрын
Time in the garden is never wasted. 😎
@beverleysimmons7885 Жыл бұрын
Oh gosh. Someone finally on my page. Took me 13 years to finish a garden. Just kept waiting for the plants to become mature enough to divide. Bought exactly 7 plants for it that were structure plants. Thanks for the tour. Love your gardens 💝🇨🇦
@allysonh6410 Жыл бұрын
That's Awesome!!!
@JeriLandersofHopalongHollow Жыл бұрын
Love spending $0 on extending the gardens! One Autumn Joy Sedum has been multiplied to hundreds of plants over the years; by division and transplanting to other garden areas. Daisy, Bee balm, Rudbeckia and Coneflowers have been great for using this method of getting free plants by "moving the furniture" around, so to speak.
@sbarton291 Жыл бұрын
Love watching your videos as well. Hope you got all your seeds corralled! :)
@JeriLandersofHopalongHollow Жыл бұрын
@@sbarton291 I Did!
@greenthumbelina7331 Жыл бұрын
Erin, half the fun of gardening is being able to divide and move our plants to fill in areas that need a little extra something here and there. I love seeing all that you do in your lovely garden areas. Have a great week! ~Margie🤗💐🐝🦋🍁
@Rougebasque Жыл бұрын
Never sick of hearing about geranium macrorrhizum My favorite ground cover. It's lovely paired with hakonechloa.
@juliaveenstraartist Жыл бұрын
Erin this was an amazing video. I am doing a “secret garden” in a side yard for my grandchildren to enjoy. My goal is FREE! This video was inspiring!
@betsymaltby6788 Жыл бұрын
Absolutely the best part of gardening, splitting up the perennials and either moving them to other locations or finding a friend who can use them. I love to see the plant divisions I gave my friends thriving in their gardens! Too late to divide now, but my Hakonechloa grass is so ready to be divided...will be one of the first jobs in the Spring.
@theosrubegoldberg9660 Жыл бұрын
I love collecting seeds every year as a free way to expand the garden. That's how I started with dahlias. I don't have named varieties, which are very beautiful, but there is the added anticipation of seeing the new offspring.
@altheab.8907 Жыл бұрын
Free is always a good thing in the garden, Erin. Big improvements….no cost. 😊💖🦋🕊
@donnasantamaria8317 Жыл бұрын
Samantha and Benjamin have their very own 100 acre wood to explore. So glad you are leaving it. It was fun learning about the history behind it and the friendship ties to your family. That was an amazing harvest from only 2 plants!!!
@alcg3981 Жыл бұрын
Yep, I'm sure she had some glitch. I remember that GA video by Laura!😬🤩
@Tobhiyah Жыл бұрын
What a fantastic opening drone shot! So cool to see an overview of you in the garden, putting it in perspective
@hobbitlady7568 Жыл бұрын
You’re the best, Erin.
@christinenovack6048 Жыл бұрын
I love, love love that big root geranium! I work as a gardener at a private estate & have "spread my love" of it freely around the property. I love it as much as you do Erin! I call it a great "doer"! ❤
@melissahuber9741 Жыл бұрын
I love this video so much! First of all that first shot with a drone was so cool - - great job! I totally agree with you that it is so fulfilling to shop your own garden! And really can be even better than buying new plants. And as you said it's good for the plants that get divided. Now I need to do this in my own garden!
@kimu6093 Жыл бұрын
i've been sitting here watching your video and this is the first time that I have been inspired to tackle my flower beds since the hot summer heat started. I live in Southern California (i know, I know). I have a lot of transplant too but have been purposely putting off even thinking about this. You have jumpstarted my transplanting heart. Thanks
@katefrancis7476 Жыл бұрын
Oh god! Creeping Jenny is like a rampant STD in my garden. Your garden is sooooo beautiful!
@TheImpatientGardener Жыл бұрын
That might be my favorite description ever of that plant.
@MelodyHopkins Жыл бұрын
I've never seen anyone else mention this about silver falls dichondra, but it acts the same in my zone 8b garden. However, it only gets about 2 inches tall and I have it contained so it can't creep into areas I don't want it.
@lisawintergerst4979 Жыл бұрын
Nice sweatshirt from a Michigan gal! Love a Rum Runner with a floater on the patio to start the visit off right! Love your channel.
@edwinreyes3998 Жыл бұрын
Watching this before work!!! Absolutely LOVE THIS ♥️
@camicri4263 Жыл бұрын
It's nice to have plants that you can divide and move around! Free is awesome! Thanks Erin!🤗 Congratulations on reaching 100k subscribers!🎉🎈
@brandoncorley3142 Жыл бұрын
That’s why I love daylillies! If you have a few you should never need to buy any. Every few years i split them up and spread them around
@daiseegray9110 Жыл бұрын
I love getting new plants for free! I have six mid size oak hydrangeas that I was able to get from their mother plant. Woohoo 🌼🐝
@carriefrost3552 Жыл бұрын
Great video, and so true! Don’t have to look further than your own backyard!
@crystalchunn6925 Жыл бұрын
I agree the moving things around and making what you have stretch is a very fun part of gardening. I’m dividing some things this weekend myself.
@KAnansey Жыл бұрын
I love the various names you've been giving the Geranium in this video! ^^ Free plants are the best!!
@kmarshall53 Жыл бұрын
Love this video! I’m going to be dividing and moving Day Lillies, Black-Eyed Susan’s, and Shasta Daisies in the next few days. Also moving plants into shadier or sunnier spots, as needed. And potting up the Tumeric. This reminded me I need to get a chip drop if I can.
@sylvierossignol9757 Жыл бұрын
This is what I aspire to as I have those exact conditions but I am starting from scratch as the previous owners removed everything except the mature trees. So I did grow some perennials from seed and will do so again for next year. But I kept an eye out for wild plants and moved some black eyed susans to a flower bed. Found some sedums in the shade that were not doing well, moved them to a sunnier spot and all 6 are blooming. I got plants from friends, raided plant sales and bought some from neighbours. It just takes time…and I have 3 kinds of geranium…the more sun they get, the faster they grow! I will try them in my woodland area.
@rbrown2746 Жыл бұрын
I love doing this in my garden too
@franthomas5867 Жыл бұрын
Totally makes sense and thanks for the encouragement to do this! It really is so satisfying to re-create from what one has! Love it!
@mdwalker3034 Жыл бұрын
Congratulations for reaching 100k, Erin! Well deserved, to be sure. You are one of my favorite garden design/plant resources. I am not familiar with the aggressive blue carex you discussed, but am very happy with Carex laxiculmis 'Hobb' Bunny Blue. Slowly clumps, likes part/full shade and tolerates wet soil. Evergreen and deer proof for me in zone 7a. Think you may like this for areas that need silver/blue but play “nice” with other plants. It is hardy to zone 5.
@reggie9334 Жыл бұрын
I love rearranging, dividing my garden beds. It is fun 👍
@alw5101 Жыл бұрын
I agree it’s the smart way of growing your garden!✨🤍
@JennJenn9 Жыл бұрын
I just divided my Tradescantia Virginiana - I love it and such an easy, no fuss plant!
@bktcz Жыл бұрын
Great video Erin! So much inspiration!!!!
@lorrainecourtney4589 Жыл бұрын
Absolutely...love it !!! 😁
@rustystork7477 Жыл бұрын
‘The gardening part of gardening’ ❤❤❤
@jasminelouisefarrall Жыл бұрын
Fantastic ❤
@jamaica5930 Жыл бұрын
Love your off the cuff enthusiasm 👍
@mimlauj6869 Жыл бұрын
I love it! My garden is still young, but I can't wait to be able to do this too
@sueprovostwilliams3824 Жыл бұрын
Love it. It is definitely the most satisfying!
@tarawatterson4188 Жыл бұрын
Awesome drone shot!! Cheers Erin, love this one
@scallywags12 Жыл бұрын
I do that too, divide and move. Most satisfying! Thanks for sharing!
@iloilolandscapeanddesign Жыл бұрын
Great ideas❤️❤️❤️
@denisedelgado3350 Жыл бұрын
Smart! 🌿
@TracyIsInTx Жыл бұрын
🌻🍁 great tips. Thank you
@michelebushnik2874 Жыл бұрын
Great ideas here Erin! Thank you so much for sharing!
@susanschellberg4509 Жыл бұрын
Great tips.
@jondebbiegraff6492 Жыл бұрын
Great video. This is exactly the mode I've been in with dividing and moving plants...it is super satisfying to give some breathing room to an overgrown area and fill in empty spaces with free plants!
@StayPositive050 Жыл бұрын
Hechla what? Please add names of plants to descriptions. Big help for beginners.
@angelwolfe6728 Жыл бұрын
So thrilled to see that you did the same move as I did when I divided up a few big hostas over the weekend 😅 shovel in place & one good foot stomp! Yes! 🙌
@rickyt3961 Жыл бұрын
excellent!! 👍🏾
@maggiecudic2744 Жыл бұрын
Your conclusion is so well said, always feel that way in the fall! Good job.
@ritalamers1876 Жыл бұрын
100k!!! Woo-hoo! Congrats to you both! 🌹🌸🌺🌷🌻🌼💐
@New-Hat-Gardening Жыл бұрын
This time of year I start consolidating plants. Especially my planters.
@dignit1620 Жыл бұрын
I also love the practical approach! Thanks for the timely reminder!
@Pervydachny Жыл бұрын
Hello! Thank you for your helpful tips. I like your video. Good luck to you👍🌻💙
@Kate98755 Жыл бұрын
i tried propagating my autumn joy sedum a few weeks ago, super easy on, so next spring i’m propagating them for sure
@mandaa4 Жыл бұрын
I wanted to mention beautiful camera work here too.. the lighting is perfection
@PershijsmachnijKherson Жыл бұрын
Hello, тhanks for sharing this video! Always believe in yourself and keep doing what you love, good luck!
@grownbydesign Жыл бұрын
Thanks for a great video! I agree, I love to make use of what I already have in both my garden and my clients gardens. I find that when I’m not happy with a space if I go in and take out some plants that I don’t like/aren’t doing well it completely changes the space. And the best part - it’s free!
@Kate98755 Жыл бұрын
i’m so into dividing and propagation,
@chrispetersen6402 Жыл бұрын
I’ve been editing things in and out. Feels so good!
@breeking3333 Жыл бұрын
Excellent point at the end about dividing and stretching your plants around. I could not agree more and do a lot of free shopping in my gardens all the time. That’s gardening - seeing how plants grow and moving them to be in an even better spot or create another great plant combination. Keep up the great fun.
@Thepotagerscottage Жыл бұрын
I have just bought hakonechloa macra aurea and I am so excited about growing it in my New Zealand/Asian fusion garden. I can’t wait until it gets as big as your plants so I can divide it and spread it around the pond area. Have you ever tried growing prickly comfrey? It’s a great ground cover in a woodland area.
@okiejes55 Жыл бұрын
I starting dividing this year! Gave several away since I’m running out of space!
@claudiaceleste777 Жыл бұрын
Will never get sick of you talking about geranium macro. I now have I think four or five different varieties of geranium, I utterly adore them. They can be delicate and showy, and I can’t wait until they are my ground cover everywhere. Am going to pop some more astilbes in as I put my first hakone plugs this late winter just gone (in Australia) and I can only dream about how beautiful it’s going to look together ❤
@TheGardeningMe Жыл бұрын
Such a great video! I totally agree...tweaking the garden, moving things around and getting more plants from those you already have is incredibly satisfying. Thoroughly enjoyed this video and it sparked an idea for using Geranium macrorrhizum in an area that we have to clear of invasives and I've been looking for a good placeholder. Thanks so much!!
@ziptiefighter Жыл бұрын
+1 for arborist chips, especially in situ. I've gotten wood chips from four sources, two arborist and two not. I am holding my breath that I didn't get any jumping worm cocoons hitchhiked in with the two non-arborist. Another bonus to wood chips is seeing the variety of mushrooms that spring up.
@karolgordon7596 Жыл бұрын
If only we had those trees. Your gardens are beautiful. I’m in zone 7a and many of your full sun plants would burn up here. I love your cool weather gardens. Adding larger trees is our goal so some day we will have some shade. But I still learn so much from your videos. Thank you for sharing!
@carolhendley760 Жыл бұрын
The driveway shade garden looks fantastic! I have a shade garden down our lane that I need to do the same thing. I use the arborist’s chips a good bit. I noticed that as the chips break down I’m finding that good fungi/bacteria(?) that Charles Dowding talks about, can’t remember the name, but it looks like white cobwebs in the soil.
@upnorth21 Жыл бұрын
So true! I do love the challenge. Working on that today. I've been trying groundcover lamium under my huge Japanese Maple, it can't compete with the fibrous roots. Today I will try Sweet Woodruff (plenty in my garden :) ) and see if that will work.
@lisabetts4237 Жыл бұрын
love it! This is speaking to me, as I went on a spending freeze this year and didn't buy any plants. I also love the idea of not being worried about using too much of one type of plant, especially for such large areas. Having just a few varieties will still have a great impact, perhaps even more, on those less showy areas. I'm going to try to take advantage of my leaves this year to make leaf mould, too. Nothing to lose but a little bit of time, if it doesn't work out.
@corinnefink4340 Жыл бұрын
Absolutely loved this video! I have a small fenced urban garden and I love growing new plants from cuttings as well as splitting up large plants. I also love “shopping “ my garden. I potted up a container for the front door by digging up a couple of small plants, a rosemary in a pot and added store bought pansies in an 8 pack. It looks great and didn’t cost much… yay, love your channel! Happy Canadian Thanksgiving! 😎
@didisinclair3605 Жыл бұрын
Ah, this was just great! I love love love hakanechloa. The voles decimated my little patch two years ago. Gritted my teeth and bought more, after doing a deep treatment for the voles.
@emkn1479 Жыл бұрын
The Japanese forest grass is gorgeous, I just wish it wasn’t so hard to find at nurseries. I got one online and will eventually get more. My current answer is Everillo carex. I’ve been using it just about everywhere (along with others in the “Ever” series) and they’re looking so good while tying my very disparate gardens together a bit. I dug up huge plants and split them in 4 or 6 last year and they’ve quickly settled in. Earns its spot in my garden.
@seeta5409 Жыл бұрын
I have been looking for Japanese forest grass. Please can you tell me where you got yours from
@emkn1479 Жыл бұрын
@@seeta5409 I’m pretty sure I got it from Great Garden Plants but it looks like it’s out of stock ATM. They can notify you when it’s restocked.
@seeta5409 Жыл бұрын
Thank you
@katebarrett1924 Жыл бұрын
Great advice all around! I'm going to start asking around for some hardy geranium!
@TheSouthernersNorthernGarden Жыл бұрын
If I send you a postage prepaid box, will you fill it with hakonechloa and return? Please and thank you. Haha. I have plugs I've still got to get in the ground this week, but yours is so lovely fully grown!
@aliciaconnolly1227 Жыл бұрын
Would love some online sources to get affordable plugs!
@janschlachte9829 Жыл бұрын
I love the drone I guess Mr More Patient was doing those shots
@aalejardin Жыл бұрын
You are inspiring me to dig out and divide a legacy patch of iris and some legacy ajuga that has gone wild. Whatever I don't want I can give away to good friends who are just starting a garden. Win, win all around! I can't wait until the plants I have put in during the last two years are mature enough to provide "free plants." Also inspired by you, I have acquired a number of geranium mac cultivars. Really a great plant. Very helpful to see how you divide them.
@billyjobobb Жыл бұрын
I recently did a trade with a large patch of iris. I didn’t really want 200 of the same yellow iris, but a local Facebook group I traded in groups and got 5 or 6 new colors.
@MsArtistwannabe Жыл бұрын
I love your fancy pants shovel. Is it the ladies shovel?
@alcg3981 Жыл бұрын
I love my Perennial Geranium. I don't know what variety, but it gets dark pink flowers and the stems seem shorter than what you showed. It gets around 6-7" high. A neighbor gave me a planter of it about 18 years ago and I've put 'pullings'😸 in several parts of my small yard. Keeps weeds away very well. So easy to pull up and divide, and it's not invasive due to that fact. I'm in the Paris suburbs and it stays evergreen through cold, snow and winds. Did I mention that I love this plant?
@franthomas5867 Жыл бұрын
Erin you'' probably cringe when I say this but that darn geranium, yes the very same one you have, I too have in and around my circular driveway water feature planting area..... the part that you'll cringe about is that I actually have to weed whack it back from the driveway to tame it.. I mean its a power house for the pollinators when its blooming, but oh my Lord, it would take over the driveway if I let it- zone 8B here.
@debbiehamilton9771 Жыл бұрын
I love your shirt
@laurenwellman2516 Жыл бұрын
Great video Erin. I am moving plants around. I have some monarda, perennial salvia, iris, and nepeta I want to move. Should I cut them back first before digging them up? I’m also a zone 5.
@samanthascott712 Жыл бұрын
Thanks Erin. I really enjoyed this video and I also scooped up a few more 'all gold' on sale to plant at the rear of a shaded slope border at the feet of some Japanese maples to cover some soil and prevent weeds. LOVE this plant. In a few more years I may be looking for places to put all the divisions but it features in several of my favorite plant pairings. Try pairing it with violet impatiens. I appreciate your practical style and pace. I also know when you can grow it on the shores of lake Michigan that I can grow it here next to Erie.
@seeta5409 Жыл бұрын
Please can you let me know where you got the Japanese forest grass from
@samanthascott712 Жыл бұрын
@@seeta5409 this time I got it from my local garden center in Cleveland, Pettitis. I have also purchased 4” pots in spring from bluestone perennials in Ohio and secret garden growers in Oregon. If you can find gallon pots in spring locally it will be better. Plant grasses in spring
@seeta5409 Жыл бұрын
Thank you for your response.
@glaizaroe Жыл бұрын
I ❤ this video! Im really so tired of seeing another content creator doing so many expensive projects all in one season. Good for them but I can't relate anymore lol
@nancysinthegarden3994 Жыл бұрын
Best way to extend your garden, divide the tough plants you can count on to thrive
@rbrown2746 Жыл бұрын
Do you have a video of doing your stone path?
@edwinreyes3998 Жыл бұрын
♥️
@dannakuhr9718 Жыл бұрын
I love getting free plants too!! And free plant advice, many thanks 😊. Where do you suggest I find hakolocloa ( or however you spell that, lol)?
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