A Rose Wall & New Proven Winners Shrubs for 2025 | The Southerner's Northern Garden

[@debrabray8855]

My goodness, Matthew! I surely hope that this is your forever home. I can just imagine what a beautiful estate it will be in a few years. It would be really hard to move away from. Beautiful ❤

[@terrihart2133]

It is amazing to me, how much you have accomplished in your entire yard this past year. You are so diligent and precise too. It is looking great. Congratulations and thank you for sharing.

[@mycraftroom6872]

Everything looks amazing! Can’t wait to see the rose wall grow.

[@bonniemontroy4040]

💡you are a light and I so enjoy your garden videos😊

[@judymckerrow6720]

I can’t wait to see your garden in ALL of its glory ! 💐💚🙃

[@peggy-ann1961]

Matthew you have worked so hard and it shows your property is a showpiece! 🇨🇦👏🇨🇦

[@cathyhatfield5340]

Looking good! The rose wall is going to be amazing when it gets bigger and I can’t wait!👍😎❤️

[@sandyg8794]

Hi Matthew! Your gardens are coming along very nicely. Adding the new shrubs and annuals made it look so good. The new shrubs are really nice. The rose wall will be so pretty, and the roses in the cut flower garden and flower beds are looking good. I'm always amazed how much you accomplish between, and on, videos. I always look forward to your next video. Thank you so much for sharing!

[@grisespino5342]

It’s coming along so well. I’m glad to hear you’ll be taking some trips. Sorry you lost your maple tree. How about a Seven Son Temple of Bloom tree? Or a Forest Pansy Redbud

[@daiseegray9110]

OMG that redbud! Gorgeous! Your garden is looking fabulous! 🌼🐝

[@TheSouthernersNorthernGarden]

It is a stunner for sure!

[@erikas974]

Mathew that Carolina Sweetheart takes my breath away. Not sure if it is available in Australia but I want one😊. Will go and look for it. Stunning. Your roses are incredible too. 🍂🍃🌹💐 everything is so nice. Thank you for the tour.

[@heathermurray1109]

I love seeing all the progress you've made, Matthew! Your gardens are going to be glorious!

[@newt52864]

I have a ghost honeysuckle, you won"t be disappointed 🤩🤩🤩

[@PeggyMills]

I have 4 Neatball boxwoods, Matthew. They look exactly like yours, small and cute.

[@kathystarnes6744]

Love all the colors and foliage. It’s going to be spectacular when everything begins to fill in. 💚💚💚

[@Blake.Cooper]

I love Great Garden Plants! I have been VERY impressed with their selection and how the plants arrive at my home. I order from them multiple times a season and stagger my deliveries. So helpful!

[@TheSouthernersNorthernGarden]

They have some great stuff! I’ve never received anything from them damaged or in poor condition either.

[@gaylewatkins4685]

Hello Matthew 😊 Thank you for the tour. Your landscape design is amazing. I'm looking forward to following along as your gardens grow and mature. Everything you are doing is truly phenomenal. Take Care and Happy Gardening. 🌿🌹

[@bonsaisn]

Sắp tới khu vườn của bạn rất đẹp, cảm ơn bạn chia sẽ ❤🎉

[@DianeSchicker]

Matthew, this is truly impressive, i cannot believe how much you have done. everything is so exciting and the hydrangea along the fence, the fountain and the climbing rose wall are some of my favorites but, why choose when there is so much beauty. thank you for sharing with us.

[@rhondaschenk5727]

It’s all looking great, Matthew! Thanks for the tour! Can’t wait to watch the progress of the rose wall!

[@nallen1833]

Thank you for showing us your garden and the new plants. I was happy to see your ruby slippers - I recently bought a couple and it was nice to see yours looking so pretty. And if you endorse the plant - I know I made a good choice!😊 Thanks also for being so real - it helps when you talk about spindly plants or plants that don’t make it through the winter. You have accomplished so much in a short period of time- I can’t wait to see how it changes this summer ❤

[@janekozlovsky9383]

Nice work! Have you considered placing a black lace elderberry in place of the Japanese Maple? It can take full sun like a champ and has a similar effect 😊

[@TheSouthernersNorthernGarden]

That’s incredibly too close to the home and sidewalk for a Black Lace Elderberry, but I do love the plant.

[@ibisalvira9725]

The garden is looking beautiful.. Looking forward to all the flowers in there. Glory....

[@jasminelouisefarrall]

Beautiful Mathew 🥰

[@judymckerrow6720]

I have a Poets Wife and she is beautiful! Especially this year with no bug damage ! 💐💚🙃

[@OlysZoo]

That one "weed" you zoomed in on early in your video of the mulch with shinny lance shaped leaves is a coke cherry seedling.

[@judymckerrow6720]

I LOVE watching your garden grow ! 💐💚🙃

[@judymckerrow6720]

Thank you Matthew, Happy Growing ! 💐💚🙃

[@judymckerrow6720]

Even though I’m REALLY wanting to visit my daughter in Va. I can’t leave my gardens during the summer months, for the last several years I can’t count on ANY rain to help take care of my gardens. Rain in my area just seems to go either north of us or south of us it usually never fails everyone around us gets rain but it LOVES to skirt our area. 🥺💐💚🙃

[@mercury_rising]

I’m the same. I don’t have drip so I don’t like to travel during the summer and leave my garden 😊

[@freciemagdirila7075]

I was that way, until I had drip irrigation installed.

[@maureenklusaritz1080]

Your garden is coming along beautifully🌷

[@clemqueens1943]

Matthew, your gardens are coming to fruition so quickly and beautifully. Be kinder to yourself… Spring is a busy time for us gardeners and you have so much. I hope you’re being gratified by the process. We moved from Mason, Ohio back to Michigan along the Detroit River. I must say I have clay soil here but it is nothing like I had in Mason so I know what you’re gardening in. I do miss living there tho especially Jungle Jim’s!

[@TheSouthernersNorthernGarden]

I've been to Jungle Jim's once and it was overwhelming!

[@camicri4263]

Coming along great, Mathew! Blessings!

[@conniek3354]

Its amazing how much you have done! All your gardens are beautiful! You have done a fantastic job with all. Especially liked the wall of roses, love it! ❤ Excited to watch that grow. Are all of them pink or different colors?

[@TheSouthernersNorthernGarden]

They're all the James Galway variety.

[@darlenehiner8719]

Mathew,I took your advice and I bought 6 Heuchera PW. I had to go to 3 garden centers to get all that I needed. Thanks

[@norakins3856]

I have an Illuminati Sparks mock orange too. New to my garden this year- love the scent and the foliage! It’s starting from a 1qt. size so it’ll need some time to settle in but I have high hopes.

[@bmcniven]

I just planted a reminiscent coral rose in a pot. Can’t wait.

[@lisalong5579]

It's coming along so nicely. I have a Ruby Slipper. It's been in the ground for at least 3 seasons now. It's bloomed every year but it never changes color, not the blooms and not the leaves either.

[@TheSouthernersNorthernGarden]

I'd be interested to know where you are located. I planted a Ruby Slipper in my last garden in 2023 and it started changing colors to pink/red relatively quickly in the season.

[@courtneysediblegarden518]

The little mulch weeds look like the crabapple seedlings I get all over my garden

[@TheSouthernersNorthernGarden]

Oh thanks! I'll do some comparisons. Hopefully I can get these under control! :)

[@nancykulp8545]

I was watching another gardeners video and found out about Debra Knapke - "The Garden Sage" - Hartland Gardening channel. She's written books on Annuals for Ohio, Perennials for Ohio, Gardening Month by Month in Ohio, and Herb Gardening for the Midwest, and others. Thought I'd pass this along to you, check her out.

[@jessicacook8186]

Hi! I live close to you and know how challenging our climate is for bigleaf hydrangeas. I'm fairly new to them, on my 2nd year, because I have seen the challenges others have with them. Do you find they do better with age, as their roots establish? I'm sure hoping they do! I'm watching to see how yours do.

[@TheSouthernersNorthernGarden]

They should do a bit better as their root system established. But that’s why I’m trialing them to find which varieties do excellent here.

[@jenniferhooks2454]

The new plantings will be really pretty when they fill in. I am curious how your huechera and big leaf hydrangeas are going to do in the sun.

[@TheSouthernersNorthernGarden]

The heuchera should be fine as many of the new varieties are rated to take more sun. This will be the ultimate test though! The hydrangea macrophylla will be interesting to see how they perform after they are established. I expect some burning this year. As that bed grows up, there will be more shade available. So my goal is to try to get some things established now that can accept more shade later. That way when the trees do grow up I don't have to change the landscape around abruptly.

[@jenniferhooks2454]

@@TheSouthernersNorthernGarden good plan. Also, may you not have any wildlife pests, like deer and rabbits.

[@maureenklusaritz1080]

Hi Matthew, Your gardens are looking beautiful ! I may have asked this question before. I planted 2 Colette roses from heirloom. They don’t be doing much but what should I use for fertilizer. I should say what are you using on new roses? Thank you!

[@TheSouthernersNorthernGarden]

I haven't fertilized my roses except when they were planted, which I did a video on last month. I'm not super loyal to any particular fertilizer brand. Choose whether you want to go organic to build the soil and the plant, or in-organic for a more immediate boost directly to the plant. Then pick whatever is cheapest or you feel is best. Don't fall for the labeling as to whether its for veggies, berries, or roses if cost is a concern. Just like our food, the N-P-K values are what matters. But, if it is in your budget using something that is specifically labeled or formulated for roses will work fine too. Remember that the first year any plant needs to focus more on root growth. You may not have a lot of top growth, but that's okay. Strong roots make healthy and better plants later.

[@cyhomer]

..Matthew..keep an eye on your peter cottontail yarrow. The RABBITS mowed mine to the ground! Imagine that ..a rabbit eating a Peter Cottontail….🙄🤨🤔

[@TheSouthernersNorthernGarden]

Oh no! That is odd! Mine haven’t been bothered yet.

[@dorisr3310]

Are you able to grow smoke bushes? Maybe you could use one of those to replace the Japanese Maple.

[@TheSouthernersNorthernGarden]

There's one in that bed already.

[@shirleyvastine9328]

Question. When you laid the paper and mulch to create a new garden, how thick was your layer of wood chips to kill the grass? Last Friday, we did that around part of flower bed to extend out to a new shrub, and weeds are already growing in the mulched area. 😭

[@TheSouthernersNorthernGarden]

I’d say it’s 3-4 inches thick. If you have weeds, then maybe the paper got torn when you put mulch on it, or you stepped on it and it tore. You have to be much more careful with that method than with cardboard and stay off it and make sure it overlaps, but it does work well if done carefully.

[@judymckerrow6720]

I WISH I could figure out how to START a drip system. I have a relatively unique situation having a water hydrant out in the back of our property so all of my hoses are coming off that water hydrant , it’s mind boggling to me ☹️it use to be a working farm at some point in this property’s life and the hydrant used to be near a barn years ago thats why it’s in the middle of nowhere but my only water source anywhere near my gardens. I try to “ hide “ the hoses as best I can but……they’re always laying out somewhere so I don’t have to continually drag hoses around. Even with a drip system in place there will always be hoses somewhere but figuring out how to start a drip system to the many different areas in my garden 🤪. 💐💚🙃

[@sheilastromberger2275]

My drip system runs off of my hydrant as well, which is also not in very close proximity to gardens. I run one long hose from the hydrant and then use splitters closer to the gardens.

[@eddieboy400]

What do you usually do to try to knock out nut sedge. I’m having the worst time with it popping up - even through landscape fabric, mulch, no matter what I do it’s crazy here.

[@TheSouthernersNorthernGarden]

Nutsedge is difficult to control. There are no organic treatments that I'm aware of. I try to pull it when the ground is wet in my beds, but the issue is if you leave any of the tiny tubers they produce in the ground they just come right back with a vengeance. Pulling it when it's wet helps get all of the tubers. For a non-organic approach, there is an herbicide called Sedgehammer that specifically targets only sedges and works well, but sometimes requires a couple treatments - they're tough plants. Tenacity (with the active ingredient "mesotrione" )also works, but controls a larger variety of weeds and is less targeted. Neither are particularly cheap comparatively as it's a bit of a specialty product.

[@eddieboy400]

@@TheSouthernersNorthernGarden thank you! Appreciate the additional insight. I have been trying to pull the entire weed under wet conditions. But may resort to chemical warfare if necessary!

[@TruthSeekerHuman-je5pd]

Lovely! I hope you do not get voles, moles, gophers, groundhogs -- I constantly fight these rodents. Argh.

[@jackiewhitney5031]

Me, too....they come off the golf course. I always have holes in my mulch and they just love all this rain every other day.

[@doloresramirez3289]

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[@karunald]

I can't find anyone that says what the Patio peach tastes like. I know its purpose is ornamental but still. I don't need bushels of peaches but it would be nice to get a couple here and there that tastes ok?

[@TheSouthernersNorthernGarden]

I've read that they are not great for fresh eating, but could work in cooked dishes.

[@karunald]

@@TheSouthernersNorthernGarden Sad!

[@judymckerrow6720]

Poison ivy and whatever the horrible thick stemmed grass weed is is the bane of my existence! 💐💚🙃 Poison ivy randomly pops up ALL over my gardens ! I have to be extremely careful when weeding and I do get tired of “ suiting “ up to pull it. I’m hoping SOMEDAY we will be able to control it. I’m also hoping that we can find all of it before it puts out seed I THINK the birds are spreading the seed ? 💐💚🙃

[@TheSouthernersNorthernGarden]

We have a lot of poison ivy around the perimeter of the property under the large trees. I need to tackle it at some point, but I feel like it would be a fruitless activity. I'm highly allergic to it too, so it's not at the top of my priority list. haha

[@judymckerrow6720]

@@TheSouthernersNorthernGarden If you can I would get it pulled before it sets seed ? The birds love to spread the seeds around. 🥺💐💚🙃

[@OlysZoo]

Choke Cherry Seedling. My tablet does not allow edits for some reason.

[@TheSouthernersNorthernGarden]

Thanks!

[@sandyduncan914]

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[@jennetteojeda138]

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[@jennetteojeda5792]

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