Your garden is looking so amazing! I feel like we have similar issues. I've been using a scuffle garden hoe to remove weeds. It's a back and forth motion to remove weeds. It has really saved my knees and back for weeding. You could also use it to shave down areas. I have a lot of drainage / runoff areas too. Amazon has one similar to mine and it's not too expensive. I'm always worried about poison ivy too!

Looks wonderful

Your hard work pays off, and hard it was with all the trash you had to remove! I wonder if the house was equally trashed and wether you DIY that also? The garden is coming into its own, it's beautiful and dreamy, you have a good eye for design and combinations 💚

👍 Was just putting down mulch today too...not that today is necessarily when you did it! One maybe worthwhile consideration... I think you are thinking it's too shady for the variegated hydrangea to bloom where the are... If you replace with Encore azaleas I think it might be the same problem. My understanding, and I could be wrong of course, was that encores need/like more sun than other evergreen azaleas. So it may be that it's the same issue...? IDK check me but that's what I remember. Super shade tolerant and deer unfriendly... Maybe Calycanthus Athens (?) Ok I will go and MMOB now. I hope whatever you do works like a charm. 👍👍👍

Also I saw in a video that someone had created on moss area using a mixture that included buttermilk along with other items but I can't remember the list of the items. If this appeals to you, I'm sure you could easily find the recipe.

I love the variegated hydrangeas, one of my favs. As a green stem starts growing from it, trim it off or the plant will star converting to total green. I found this out by experience so I asked the nursery and was told to maintain the variegated branchs to keep it variegated or it would eventually turn back to total green. Just thought I would mention it in case you wanted to keep the variegated look. I do love watching your gardens, they are really shaping up nicely and looking so good!! You have landscape it beautifully.

Your garden looks amazing. I can't wait until you are done with this part.😊

Looking good! Not easy work! Those ajuga will definitely spread. Mulch always makes things look tidy. I’m not 100% certain but it looked like some of the weeds you were pulling from the grey stones area were poison ivy. Be careful. I got some on my lower left leg about a month ago & it was miserable! Have a great week! 😊♥️

That looks so pretty you do a good job in your yard it is so pretty

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Your garden is looking beautiful. You are really getting a good workout carrying all the bags of mulch and clearing all the weeds. Love watching❤.

All your hard work & lifting mulch bags, My husband told me if I work in the garden, I won't get osteoporosis. Whitney, I got that TALL BLUE Diamond Lake Hosta today, same as your garden. They have like 8 tall hostas. So I'll probably divide in half. I couldn't believe it was $20 I got 30% off. $14, so I was happy. I also love your veragated Hydrangea. I've never seen that around. Your hosta garden looks so nice. 😊

Girl❤ that is looking fantastic! 😍

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Its looking good! I think the hardest part is waiting for the plants to mature. Nothing like a good rain after planting, rain is the best remedy to set plants on their way. everything is really coming together. love it! Genie :)

Good choice with the darker heucheras, it looks better now

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The secret garden is looking great!

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Looking great. Put you a piece of lattice on top of your structure

Agree fully with the lungwort, Heuchera, Ajuga, and oak leaf group. Great together and colorful and bloom at different times 👍 Heuchera and lungwort make good ground covers. It was strange when the cicadas suddenly stopped... actually kinda scary! To me. Garden on! Looking forward to seeing more!

So beautiful ❤. Did you make the round pavers? What container did you use please. Thanks.

I love the border pavers

Looking good. Tomorrow I'm going to pick up a yellow Bleeding Heart found on marketplace. Whitney, you can also divide your 2 Lungworts for the other side. I had 2 fuller ones & divided into 6 plants. They will grow fuller the following year. This fall I'm going to divide more, they are really full now. Don't worry about them looking thin, they really get FULL next year. 😅

Its lookin good. I love your calmness. Im hoping my cucumber/jalapeno pepper garden will be ok. Hurricane debby screwed everything up down here in tampa for me. I think im able to save 4 cucumber plants and 6 jalapeno pepper plants. eeeeppp darn it.

Whitney, (if it were me) I would move one of the lungwort to the other side, place one of the hostas you got next to it, or near it on each side and maybe line the section of the path with the liriope where you took the lungwort out (mirror it like the side you just planted..). So you would then have lungwort, Hosta, ajuga, blackpearl, ajuga, blackpearl, ajuga, blackpearl, Hosta, lungwort and a section of liriope lining the path on each side, with the oakleaf in the back & in the middle of it all. That could work for the rest of the season & then you would have some time to look at it and think about it for a cpl of months & if you don’t like it, change it up in the spring. 🤷🏼‍♀️ I bet you could even tuck in the green corabells near the black pearl ones to make them pop. Like 1 on each side.. plant a purple clematis to climb the wishing well.. whatever you decide and plant I know it’s going to be beautiful 😊♥️ sorry you keep getting rained out while filming!

Hi Miss T. I love your ideas and have one small suggestion you might consider. How about a wider path to accommodate a wagon etc, so you aren’t carrying bags of mulch. Save your back. Just a thought.

Am i hearing grasshoppers or katydids? 😂 Im hard of hearing. But i hear something. I really like your choice of plants and giggled when you said you bought more. Thats a win always 😂❤

Squiggles is so cute!!!!

Looks beautiful and green!! I absolutely love all your ferns. I planted 2 Christmas fern bulbs in spring and still nothing so idk what I did wrong but really would like to have some in my garden. Thank u

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Love this path ❤. Thanks for sharing.

I really appreciate your honest presentation of your garden. A garden is a work of love, but it is work and often it doesn’t go as planned. But it still brings joy and happiness.

Looking so good Whitney! Your hard work is really paying off❤. I love the view of looking down the long stairway and seeing the shrub at the bottom and the paths branching off, makes you want to get down there to see what you’ll find around the 2 corners and behind the shrub…very interesting. Next tour would you please show a view of where you are walking so we can get a view of the pathways, it would be so helpful, I got dizzy looking at just ground but it doesn’t take much to get dizzy 😂 Thanks so much Whitney, wish I had 1/4 of your energy🤦‍♀️!! Take care, Brenda🇨🇦ZN4

And... That garden is so ambitious! You may overwhelm the deer someday soon. They'll be like...'we cannot keep up with the planting happening here'...' better leave this ladies plants alone.... she's making too much work for us' I hope

Lol.thank you!! I do appreciate the tour. And I have eaten fried day lily buds...not bad, but need a lot of salt and pepper. Oy! Deer. So sorry.

What a great video Whitney! You’ve done so much work back there AND managed to grow some veggies too! It’s not easy. What you are trying to accomplish is hard work esp when you are doing it by yourself. Keep up the great work! I’m totally here for it! I really enjoy your channel. & today- I was out in my yard trying to get some gardening done & the deer 🦌 ate a bunch of my hostas, my strawberries, my sunflowers, and some of my hollyhocks!! Frustrating!!! 😊♥️

Your garden is beautiful. Nice vegetable harvest. 🌸❤

My garden in the back is a mess. I guess bcoz of the heat & humidity, we couldn't really do much. Did some weeding past week coz it was cool & rained. Oh your tomatoes 🍅 with cracks, I had same. SO I cut up wasted part & put in Freezer to use in cooking. Not wasting them.

Nice harvest!

You worked so hard and it shows! Cosy and beautiful garden 🤩 One thing though: could you move the camera a bit slower, please? 😵‍💫It would be more peaceful to watch 💚

Do you have any azaleas or camellias? Do they grow in your zone? It seems to be a perfect garden for some.