My seed source was probably a bird, I think it is wild marjoram as it definitely an aggresive grower which is fine by me. I have both white and purple and since neither was purchased I can't help you. I do know that both West Coast Seeds and Vessey's sell marjoram but you would have to contact them to make sure the flowers are purple. Sorry I can't be more helpful.

You are very welcome, and thank you so much for letting me know you liked the bouquet💐💐💐

It sure has, I find it a relaxing thing to do at this time of year because I know I have months to change my mind.🎃🎄🌱🌻

That is so kind of you to say, I reallyappreciate your letting me know this.😊

I loved using Parsley umbels this year. I used them a lot. They are such an easy care flower that they will always be in my repertoire. They are the flower of parsley which is a biennial, which means the parsley blooms in its second year. The flowers look like the Dara flower, but much smaller and completely green. I am excited to trial Gladioulus Evergreen next year. What a statement making green flower it should be. I've trialed Queeny Lime zinnia and wasn't impressed - but that's just me, I don't grow any zinnias, they bloom at the same time as my dahlias and I prefer dahlias. I won't trial Bells of Ireland as everyone seems to think that even though they are gorgeous, they are a lot of trouble to grow and I like to keep my life as easy as possible. I hope that was helpful🙂

@@EvelynM-vlogs yes, thank you. I didnt even think of umbel flowers but that is perfect.

@@denvertom7627 Glad to have helped.

Excellent👍

@gardengirl7446 hi, sorry for mumbling the name. It's "Phaedra Gardeness," and she is an Australian KZbinr. Thanks for asking!

Thanks so much, and thank you for commenting😊

Nope, not possible to hog the channel😊

It was so exciting when I had the eureka moment on figuring out how to do it. And you are very welcome.

I did not know that squirrels went for pumpkins. What type of squirrels are in your area?

@@EvelynM-vlogs - I have all of the above; :) Black, Grey, Red and Blond ones. I also have chipmunks. They chewed holes in the pumpkins to get to the seeds. Some of my pumpkins could be used as birdhouses with perfect round holes. This is the first time that I have seen the critters do this to my pumpkins. I was curing them outside before bring them indoors.

@@canadian-gardening-6A That's too bad. We don't have chipmunks and there is one - just one - tan coloured squirrel that we see infrequently. It forgot a bunch of hazelnuts one year it had buried in one of my garden beds and I ended up with a half dozen trees growing. I gave a few away and kept a couple in pots. I don't know why but they don't bloom.

@@EvelynM-vlogs - I think I am the only one with an open grocery store 24/7. We also have bird feeders. The bunnies decided to come to my yard and have their babies. Two families this year. Four babies each. We tried electric fencing - kept some of the critters out, but not the bunnies. Next year - I have to figure out how to work with nature so we both can share my yard. :)

@@EvelynM-vlogs - I did a search on Hazelnuts here what it said: "Hazelnut trees typically start producing nuts when they are around 3 to 5 years old. However, the quantity of nuts produced will increase as the tree matures, often peaking around 8 to 10 years of age."

Thanks so much. I only wish I ended up with more than one pumpkin. There is always the proverbial next year.🎃🍂

I don't over winter any plants, I tried for a few years with a lemon tree, but I am just not excited about winter plant care. I am also not a fan of indoor plants, I just like being outside, which in our climate is possible all year round. I especially like the beach hikes with the dogs now that it is not so hot.

No frost warnings here for the next 10 days, but then, that can change quickly. Hopefully it won't. We've been loving tomato soup with tomatoes from our garden, and as a side dish, feta cheese on zucchini slices - yum.

Oh how sad, you must have been devastated. You will love Labyrinth.

@@EvelynM-vlogs thanks. They multiply quick enough and I didn’t have many expensive ones. Lost my CAL but still have two CAL rose varieties. Labyrinth is in everyone’s must-have list

@@mhubertcfi I love Cafe au Lait Rose.

I had thought of that but we are such a wet climate in the spring that I think it would make it more difficult for people to deal with the pots in their cars (too much water in and around the wrap). I also thought of adding wrap and taking it off on the wet days but that would be just too much added work. I was given a bunch of pots with foil on them from a neighbour a few years back and I still have not used them because of the rain. Next year Easter is on April 20th, which is generally a drier period, so I might try it then - weather determined.

They are perfect containers for starting tubers. Because they are square, roots don't go round and round, which is another added bonus which, if memory serves me right, I don't think I mentioned in the video. I will never go back to regular pots to start the tubers.

Oh, how awful getting gall, I would have cried too. Yellow sunflowers with either deep red or purple dahlias are by far the most popular at my flower wagon as well. I will need to plant a higher percentage of the yellow suns next year. For the first two years of my flower sales, I only grew dinnerplates and only sold them as single stems, people just love them. I decided to add more flowers to extend the season and to make bouquets.

Breakout looks like another good Cafe au Lait replacement, and no surprise, when I just googled Rip City, I loved it! Thanks for commenting🌺🍂🙂

Which Cornet? I only grow Cornel Bronze and I love that one, but I have not grown any of the other Cornels.

Thanks so much, I'm glad you enjoyed my video. You will love Labyrinth as much as you love Cafe au Lait Rose, I promise.

I have not grown Peaches n Cream, Linda's Baby, Beatrice, Cornel Red, Gypsy Night, or Boom Boom White, but I believe Boom Boom White is very similar to my Petra's Wedding, which I love. Also, you are very welcome, and thanks for commenting!

My Arabian Night also slowed way down in the heat, Cornel Bronze trundled along but is doing so much better right now, I dropped Kelvin Floodlight this year as it is very similar to Wandas Capella - just not as full in the petals, Wizard of Oz did well but now that it i's fall it has lost its pink and is only white. Linda's Baby I have not grown, I just looked it up, it seems similar to Sweet Fabienne, which did great in the heat but has really slowed down now. With my dahlias in my front garden, as a visual billboard to the street, I don't think I can use shade cloth, it would defeat the purpose of having all the dahlias in the front, too bad. Thanks for commenting!

I did not remember that their flowers where white. I stopped growing them years ago as they bolt long before they create the broc or caul. I may have to try growing a couple next fall. Thanks for that tip!

Do you think it’s called Niagara Falls because that’s Canadian colors?

@@tammygillettVictoryGarden Hi,, it's actually called "Yarra Falls", sorry, sometimes my articulation is poor.

Dahlias are only true to form if you purchase the tubers. Seeds never look like the mother plant as they are a creation of mixed pollination. I, living in Canada, can't sell to you in the states without a proper export license, so you will have to buy from within the states. I did a quick check, Bear Creek Farms, in NY has them. I am sure other places do as well. Thanks for commenting, I appreciate it!

Karma yin Yang is good too​@@EvelynM-vlogs

@@angelabromley3712 Hah, at first I thought you where talking about the phylosophy of Karma Yin Yan, of which when I googled it means "The Chinese philosophical symbol of Yin and Yang illustrates all things are held in balance. The process of balancing is what we call Karma." Then I saw that it was the name of a dahlia, so I opened that up. It looks so much like Yarra Falls, but is shorter with a smaller flower head, interesting.

Thanks😊

You are very welcome.

To dig dahlias up for personal enjoyment is a lot of work. Selling tubers in the spring sure makes up for the extra work. Bonus, for me, those home growers that leave them in the ground, every few years loose them all and need to buy more🙂 Two things will kill them in the ground, if the soil freezes down to the tuber level, and if it gets too wet - which is what people here have a problem with. We almost never have a ground freeze that deep. Our soil doesn't even freeze very often. Some larger growers in the states will mulch over top of their dahlias for a layer of insulation. If my glads don't come back, that will be it for me growing them, although I am digging and storing them.

That's a great idea. I have that sedum, but I never knew what it was called - it was given to me. I never thought of using it in pots with other plants. I have pots of just sedum, and yes, that one is prolific, so easy to propagate and use in salable pots.

You are very welcome. Added bonus, the leaves you strip off of the stems can be dried for winter culinary use.

That's good to know. I have two dried heads that I didn't know what to do with. I don't use dried flowers as decor, we have slowly been renovating our whole house and the reno dust in anything dried would be yuck. I will plant them in a pot instead. A couple of days after this video I realized I didn't want to buy a few retail - too expensive - and I didn't want to buy another wholesale amount either, so thanks for letting me know how prolific the alliums are. It makes sense since garlic and chives are super prolific.

@commonlaw5400 - how long does it take before the seeds starts flowering? Thank you! I heard somewhere - where someone removes Alliums seed heads, because they already have enough Alliums. I wish I had that issue. :)

- sorry I found it ; 2-3 years. Thank you!

It would really depend on the perennial. For example, the Astilbe fronds are so important to me in October, so they are a two season perennial. When the alliums die back, I plant my cosmos for a late summer filler. The Camelia blooms where no cut flower will bloom - in a lot of shade. The peonies create a statement flower when their are no others. If I chose to designate a fridge, I can expand their season by three more weeks and when they start blooming like crazy, I might - or not. The snowberries have usable foliage from spring through fall, and a small pink flower in summer. Daisies often have a second flush. The red rhododendron grows as tall as my house and if it was mine, I would limb it up like my pink one (which doesn't have good vase life) and plant Camelia beneath it. My hydrangeas are in pots and are not taking up valuable garden space. Yarrow also puts out a second flush, and if I had enough, the dried heads would also be great in fall bouquets. The marjoram takes up such a small space and we use it for culinary purposes as well. This is why these are my perennials. The other thing about perennials is how much less labour they take, if all I had was annuals, it would be all encompassing time wise. Also, while I mentioned that the peonies are now too big to grow cut flowers around them for next year, I will be planting successions of lettuce in their shade. The strawberries are getting pulled and the anemones and ranuncs will grow in their place. I told Ezri and Lela you said hi, they looked up briefly and then put their heads back down. It's a cold, wet, and foggy morning.

@@EvelynM-vlogs - Thank you! I grow mostly perennials and a few annuals for a pop of extra colour. ;) I don't sell my flowers. Just curious.

@@canadian-gardening-6A I didn't grow any annual flowers before I started selling them. It was food crops and perennials only. It has been a bit of adjustment not having as much food growing, but then, I always grew too much for us.

It's funny, I was asked by a friend a couple of weeks ago how many perennials verses annuals I use and I didn't know. That's what spawned this video. I do like the drumstick alliums, but my space is so small I have to be very selective about what I grow, especially now that the peonies are in their leap stage. I have never had an Astilbe do a second flush of flowers, but your location might be the difference. Or it might be that it was not an established plant when it put out the couple of blooms and now is ready to do more before the winter chill sets in. Some dahlias do better in the fall, I can't remember if Cafe au Lait is one of them. I do start mine in my seed room Feb. 1st-ish, so they are ready and raring to grow when planted out May 1st-ish, already pinched and above the soil surface. Thanks for letting me know that you think this is one of my best videos, I was worried it was too long.

I do subtle surveys without asking. For example, today I have an abundance of deep red dahlias so the two I put out first is deep red dahlias with white sunflowers and deep red dahlias with gold sunflowers. Seeing which is purchased first is a type of survey. I did this with the snaps, the ranuncs, etc. To date, my observations on colour choices is there are no winners except for the deep red dahlias, those always go first. One of the reasons I did the farmer's market the previous two years was to see how people respond to each bouquet, AND to each flower in each bouquet, and of course, to let them know where my flower stand was located.

@@EvelynM-vlogs - Thank You!

@@canadian-gardening-6A You are very welcome

After the first killing frost which is anywhere from mid October to December 1st. I will harvest hard and have enough flowers for probably two days after. Last year, for some reason the Kenora MacB dinnerplate dahlia was unaffected by the frost. Surrounded by dead plants, it kept blooming happily away.

@@EvelynM-vlogs - Thank you Evelyn! That's pretty good. I thought you would run out of flowers before the first frost.

@@canadian-gardening-6A I do run out of most flowers but the dahlias keep going strong and October/November is when the dried poppy pods and Astilbe come into play, Mixed in with the dahlias and laurel leaves the bouqets are still fresh but with a strong autumnal aesthetic. I will be going over that in next weeks video and I hope to do an October bouquet recipe video as well.

I don't think you will regret trying them, I love them.🙂 I don't start my snaps in the fall for three reasons. First we are very wet in the winter as we live in a temperate rainforest climate. 2nd, we don't get very cold and our ground is hardly ever frozen, making planting at any time easy. 3rd, I do direct composting in the winter in my cut flower beds. I use the double dig method and bury all my large plant waste, as well as anything else I have. I take the dogs for beach hikes so in the winter I always have seaweed to add to the mix. What I do, is start them in my seed room Feb. 1st and plant them out about a month later. They stay small for a couple of months while their root systems develop and then they grow like crazy.

@@EvelynM-vlogs Wow thank you so much for such valuable information. The temperature has dropped dramatically here since yesterday. There was even some snow further up the road on Yr Wyddfa (Snowdon). I am thinking I should take most of my tender plants into the greenhouse tomorrow. There is such a lot to learn with gardening, the propagating and sowing of seeds isn't easy by no means! I also live a five minute drive from the sea. I feed my plants seaweed liquid. I think I'll save half of the seeds and sow them in February like you do. Wish me luck! (thanks again, much appreciated)

@@neryshaynes9149 SNOW - yikes! I'm still in shorts, although the temps are comfortable now. I like the idea of planting some now and some in February, that will give you a good idea of what works best. Sometimes it's so location specific. I have friends not that far from me, but their elevation is higher and their first killing frost is sooner than mine sometimes by several weeks.

@@EvelynM-vlogs Strange weather we're having over here atm. It was back to wearing a t.shirt again today! You are most certainly right regarding location specific. Going to sow some more Snapdragons in the greenhouse tomorrow. Thank you so much for your replies, they are much appreciated. 🙂.

@@neryshaynes9149 You are very welcome.

That's awesome to know that it is as nice in real life as it is in a photo! The other Chantilly's look beautiful as well. I'll wait and see how I like the open faced snaps before ordering any others. Thanks for the info, it's always great to hear what other's grow and what they like.

the only glads I have are a deep red, and I do pair my yellow suns with deep red dahlias, so I understand what you are doing, but the deep snaps got lost in my dahlias, that was one of the problems. What size are your suns? I don't like the blue bachelor's buttons but I love the black button ones. I googled the Chantilly Italian Ice Mixed, they are gorgeous, the bronze in the mix looks similar to the ones I ordered. I've also pinned the seed company to look at later. Thanks.

@@EvelynM-vlogs I use about 2"- 3" sunflowers. I plant them really close together to get smaller heads. I also grow the smaller dahlias, which could be why the snapdragons don't get lost.

@@ilenehales7849 I thought your suns must be on the smaller side. For me, with such a small growing area, larger flowers mean I can make impactful bouquets with less flowers. That said, I still love my tiny bachelor's buttons and cosmos because they add the "bounce".

THANK YOU, that was really bugging me that I couldn't remember. Silly thing to be bugged about, but yay, no more. I get them from Johnny's, I was going to leave a link and totally forgot, so now I will in a pinned comment. Thanks for reminding me and thanks again for the Mikey info🙂🙃

The ocean is warmer too, back in the 90s it was all the talk when the first big red jellyfish showed up in the harbour on Cortes Island. Now they are everywhere. As far as the flower farming goes, it keeps it interesting. Always lots to think about and adjust to.

Except that some of them do better than the heat lovers when the fall weather arrives, and since our first killing frost can be late in the season - once not til Dec 1st, I can still use the heat haters, just not in the heat of the summer. One thing that was not the greatest was the reduced number of blooms I had this year due to the heat, the front garden just wasn't the plethora of colour as it has been every other year. What bloomed got cut every morning.

We are getting that same heat blast, although our temps will only get up to 28c, which is 82.5f. The humidity is high, humidity is 82% during the night so everything outside is very wet in the morning. Def let me know how the dahlias do.

What's really gorgeous is if you split the two bouquet photos in half and put them together. I just did that for fun and love it.

I'm so very glad you liked them. I am partial to the yellow and purple with the sunflowers as well. I've repeated that look many times. Also, happy to help with new ideas, that's the goal🙂💐