10 Tough Foundation Plants

[@denisekennemer1991]

Very helpful summary for foundation plants in a year when we are all replacing shrubs! Thx!

[@8helenjhouston8]

Thank you for this great collection of foundation plants!!! Your knowledge is such a fantastic resource for us beginner gardeners!!!

[@wendypemberton3198]

Wealth of knowledge! One of the best landscaping channels. Thanks Jim!

[@lisawalters5482]

Your channel is really a library of plant reference. Lots of work and I love it! Thank you, Jim for sharing your knowledge. I’m learning so much. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@JimPutnam]

Thanks for watching Lisa

[@thatchicksavage3165]

Thank you!! These are what I've been looking for🤗💜

[@tomahawk1556]

HortTube with Jim offers some of the Really Attractive Low Maintenance Shrubs for our Front Yard with the Proper Names & Zone Requirements! Thank You So Much for the Efforts & for Sharing! Stay Safe & Stay Humble! 🕯🌷🌿🌍

[@Tofog22000]

Great topic for a video! I've often wondered and debated what to use for foundation planting!

[@lanipowell7287]

I watch your videos then watch them again, taking notes. I've learned so much. Thank you!

[@PleasantPrickles]

Beautiful choices, but I just read that ticks hang out on barberry because they are thorny, and the deer won’t eat them. I’d avoid those in spaces where people will be. 🌱🌱🌱

[@jojohnston4113]

It's been a really tough dry summer here. We've lost several shrubs and struggling to keep others watered. Plan to replace them if we ever get rain so this list is helpful!

[@JimPutnam]

It is super dry here. I plan on talking about it in tomorrow's video

[@anitahadley2871]

HortTube with Jim Putnam glad to hear that because here in GA everything looks awful. My poor hydrangeas!

[@nagrabagra4924]

@@JimPutnam SOOO glad your going to cover this, here in Western North Carolina the drought is taking a toll on my bushes and plants too. I'm watering and mulching like crazy!!

[@meluvhimcrazy]

Beautiful choices!! Everyone!!!

[@feleciawallace8420]

I live in Marietta GA - zone 8A - love your list of choices, yes i'll check them out tomorrow at HD … its time to plant a few shrubs

[@LDSKIPPER1911]

For what it’s worth, Marietta Ga is 7A.

[@boienglishbulldog3092]

Great video 👍🏽thanks

[@nancyyonce2906]

THANK YOU SO MUCH I AM GOING TO TRY SOME OF THESE !!

[@annenorthup348]

Should you leave leaves in your garden bed filled with perennials and shrubs? What if it is a shade garden with large trees? My landscape team believes you should clean it all up but when they use a strong blower that blows away all the pine needle mulch. It is a large garden and remulching is expensive.

[@bellaqueen913]

Hello, thanks for posting!! What are the shrubs called that are in frame right beyond the Scentamazing Gardenia at 3:39? They're lined up in a row on the right going toward a little shed.

[@tamarabradshaw4799]

Isn’t there a threat of deer ticks and Lyme disease associated with Barberry shrubs?

[@laurahorace9939]

I do love the Sunshine

[@gregboshell4532]

Can you do a video on propagate nandenias

[@wt30001]

I appreciate your videos

[@pedroevelyn7795]

learning so much. Thanks

[@relaxingwildsounds4178]

So beautiful✨

[@pretty95138]

Thanks..I enjoyed this video and plan to plant sunshine lig and orange rocket berry in my front yard..next to each other..is orange rocket berry Evergreen and perennial in zone 9b? I am in san jose CA.

[@carefreedelight2355]

Can you tell me what the very large paint is behind you which has a pinkish foliage.

[@cindybriggs2328]

I’d be interested in the mature size of these choices. I have some of them but some I’m not familiar with.

[@JimPutnam]

I have individual videos for all of them on my channel.

[@debbiesineath1952]

Thank you for a lot of information!

[@iowagreen8932]

Thank you for the great ideas! Zone 5 here.

[@ClineFamilyof5]

Is the purple daydream also a southern living plant? (No link) Thanks for throwing in a few zone 10 plants...sometimes I feel like we get forgotten down in South Florida 😅

[@thereselavecchia6950]

I planted siberian cypress (Microbiota decussata) in full afternoon sun this spring. Because I love them so much and they were a bit expensive, I have been watching them closely, maybe too closely. I have a tiny tiny bit of browning on the underside and wonder if anyone can tell me how much of this would be considered normal?

[@Mooseclip]

I am in zone 10b 33 feranhert to 116f max which foundation plants should use please help anyone reply

[@landviewbclandscaping2986]

great work............... tky

[@paulahaynes6131]

Can’t wait for zone 6.

[@bluewaves3]

Thanks for the information!

[@user-uw8fb8ny8b]

Love your videos!! Thanks for sharing. Do you have any videos on the different kinds of grasses? Like jet streams or maiden grasses, Mexican Feathergrass etc I’m looking for some kind of upright tall grass. Looking for a grass that does not look like a big burst ball. They’re pretty but just not in a space that I need it. I need a tall slender looking grass that does not spread. Is there anything like that? Thanks again for your help:-)

[@cjane8538]

Beautiful plants. How close to a concrete foundation can you plant them?

[@mccullardanielle]

Great information! Thank you for sharing this!

[@themontephone875]

! Hey! You’re reaching 100k 😃

[@Gigi-fv9ky]

Jim, as you are categorizing, will you consider deer resistance as a category? Deer are far and away my biggest gardening challenge.

[@Iris-gy2mi]

I struggle with this. I've bought so many plants that are "deer resistant" as deer food essentially.

[@tamarabradshaw4799]

If deer are hungry enough they will eat practically anything. They love rose of sharon, hydrangeas, roses, azaleas, hostas and most perennial and annual flowers except Marigolds and Zinnias. We have many very hungry deer in our wooded neighborhood but they haven’t touched my boxwoods at all👍. I just purchased some Holly that they’ve ignored and I’m searching gardening centers for tough and leathery or sharp and spiky shrubs. They eat evergreens in the winter. A Glossy Abelia tag said “deer resistant” but they nibbled almost all the blooms off. The don’t like Lavender or herbs in that family. I was very upset about the deer destroying my perennial garden but now that I’ve taken a deep breath and gotten over it I’m actually enjoying the search for things those buggers (I really do love the wildlife here) do not like at all. I’m learning a lot and going with the flow on this new journey. Hope this was a little helpful.

[@rustysoilgardener1017]

Anything in the mint family is usually a safe bet. The mint family is vast. A couple good ones that come to mind are lavender and sage. They are high in the chemical camphor which is also a turn off to insects as well. It’s doesn’t make for a tasty snack. Note that lavender and other small new plants can be enticing still but after the first year it should be potent enough to detour them.

[@jasongross4241]

Great point,rabbits are mine

[@jeffzimmerman25]

Great video idea. Look forward to the others you mentioned.

[@JimPutnam]

Thanks for watching

[@marilynmontes8560]

Would definitely want to see foundation planting for zone 9b

[@julieh7009]

Great info! Thanks!

[@James1toknow]

Will any of these do well in Michigan?

[@は私です彼の名前]

What zone and soil type are you in?

[@jing1528]

Thank you!.. some of those mentioned we have it here in Texas!👍🏼

[@JimPutnam]

Yes, several of them are very heat tolerant.

[@JustinSmith-hr6qg]

Would any of these be better than the others in a full sun (blazing summer) area? Hickory, NC.

[@3pumpkins170]

I would love to have the Firechief Arborvitae, but I'm in zone 9 🙁

[@JimPutnam]

It's a good one for sure. Thanks for watching

[@doriskawas8721]

Thank you so helpful! Can you do a winter plants for interest and color one day. Appreciate it😊

[@FixItYerself]

thanks

[@JimPutnam]

Thank you

[@chrisknutson3180]

Jim where can I get these plants? My local nursery has none!

[@christinevans1712]

Most of my plant projects happen on the Northside of my home. I was wondering if you could create a series for Shade tolerant Foundation Plants?

[@sophiestewart3289]

yes, please! this is my front yard and I want to balance impact with low maintenance so I can focus on the back of the house where the fun happens!

[@sumi646]

Thank you

[@jamesrobbins7976]

These are some great idea plants. Thanks Jim. Hope you make it to Winston-Salem area one day.

[@MinhNguyen-mo5fp]

Nice 👍🏻

[@grantbayley100]

wow thank you

[@BermudaBrian]

Sub'd. Great info and knowledge

[@themidger1]

Are any of the non invasive nandinas taller growing? I don’t like them as small balls and prefer the bamboo-like leggy habit of the classic domestica but none of the newer nandinas get that big

[@JimPutnam]

Obsession can reach around 4 feet in height

[@nagrabagra4924]

TY for mentioning that word 'non invasive' and Nandina in the same breath. My aunt had planted some in the yard before she died, and when we bought the house I noticed all these little red leafed shoots EVERYWHERE in the yard. I'd walk around and pull them up, then I realized that they matched the leaves on the Nandinas in the front yard, so I dug them out and threw them away. I tried to find out if they were invasive but could never find any info on them. From then on I've avoided Nandinas altogether.

[@JimPutnam]

Yes, definitely a big change in the new varieties.

[@RyanH0809]

Second what Jim Says. There are so many wonderful, non-invasive (and compact) varieties out now a days. Obsession, Flirt, Blush Pink, Sienna Sunrise and even the tried and true Gulf Stream Nandina, which has been out for a long time. Definitely don't miss out on Nandina!

[@nagrabagra4924]

@@RyanH0809 LOL! Okay, I'll take your word for it! I'll write the names down that you mention here and take the list with me just in case I run across any of these during one of my garden center shopping excursions! TY!

[@fordguyfordguy]

my sunshine lugustrum's look ratty and sparse - I don't think they like South Carolina heat.

[@kelliemoudry5136]

Great video! I’m in zone 8, are all of these good for the west side of my home?

[@besselfunctions]

Berberis thunbergii "Japanese Barberry" is an awful choice as it is an non-native invasive plant that birds will spread and displace native plants, forming dense thorny thickets.

[@rickster348]

- does any of these work in northern Ohio?

[@JimPutnam]

Definitely the Fire Chief, the Barberry and the Pancake Arborvitae

[@rickster348]

@@JimPutnam - ok, Thanks!

[@cathybrown7559]

Jim, how can I find someone who landscapes in Birmingham Alabama. I don’t have a lot of money and my land is nothing but chirt. At my age I just can’t dig a hole with a pick, it takes me 2 days. Any suggestions?

[@nancybennett9265]

I am of an age where I can't dig in my garden like I used to do. One thing that has helped me is using a bulb auger. It really loosens up the soil then I can shovel the loosened soil. I got the auger bit for less than 10.00.

[@marthamydear7499]

Nancy Bennett Thanks for the tip, Nancy! I bought a Gardenia bush and some butterfly weed plants. Wasn’t looking forward to digging the holes (heavy clay-like soil).

[@nancybennett9265]

@@marthamydear7499 I sure hope it helps you. I bought the bulb auger bit for 7.00 on EBay. My husband had the cordless drill. It helps me tremendously. Hope you plants do well!