A spring garden stroll 🌿 April 28, 2024 🌿 Mother Nature has been busy!

[@carolkelly638]

“We don’t need perfection to have beauty” love that comment not only in flowers but in life!

[@Kate98755]

completely agree…because imperfection is beauty, maturity allows us to understand this.

[@kimbailey742]

I needed this reminder!

[@janetplanet09]

The gardeners credo!

[@5262janna]

Love these walks. It makes me feel normal to have weeding to do, dieback to cut, and pure joy for every bloom no matter how small. Thank you.

[@Gardenabundance]

Hey! In Iowa here. So our garden timing is pretty similar. Absolutely love your videos, such an inspiration! Thank you for doing what you do and taking the time to share it with us.❤💕❤️💕 you are truly appreciated

[@JennJenn9]

“And my heart with pleasure fills, as it dances with the daffodils” 😊

[@carolynmareck1182]

“Sometimes crazy, sometimes normal”…love it, Erin!!

[@jenperry427]

Erin, because of you I decide to try and save two bananas last year, a large one and a quite small one. I almost internally combusted getting the big one out of it's container on my own, but we all survived, including the container. I kept reminding myself it was expensive to replace if I WWE'd it onto the concrete. But I was 100% done after that, so I just cut the roots and leaves off of everything and tossed them into a dark corner of my unheated upstairs (very old farmhouse) and wished them luck. Went up last week to get them and they were both growing new leaves all on their own. Now they're in pots in the seedling room and growing happily. Thanks for helping me have my own Banana AdventureTime 🍌

[@TheImpatientGardener]

Yay! Love to hear it!

[@shanamatteucci3980]

Our garden is 30 years so lots of bottomless pots sit around allowing above ground planting. the roots really find an anchored home in the ground in spite that we cannot DIG a hole! Gardening is so theraputic! Love your videos.

[@SmallHoldingAtHillhigh]

Yeah! Appreciate your ramblings in/through the garden!

[@janetplanet09]

Chicago Lakeview gardener here: my Limelights are leafy, my daffodils are done, the hostas are completely leafing out. This is the craziest spring. Most years I’m waiting for the snow to melt.

[@dorisr3310]

I loved this. It’s great to see a gardener’s thought process, what works and what not so much.

[@terrikim4992]

This is what my friends and I do. Just walk around each other’s yards.

[@SunshineKK99]

You always talk about plants I've never even heard of. I love that! Thank you.

[@shelleymolinaro5866]

Thanks for the walking tour. I have a woodland garden and I need to stop thinking it looks bad until everything leafs out. According to the robins , it is perfection. I loved seeing your woodland garden as it emerges. Thanks Erin!!!

[@noravidal3072]

Growing in pots. It's very convenient for me. I rent my property and find it easy-to-use pot's for all my flowers and vegetables.

[@lorihanby6733]

I love these strolls with you. I’m amazed at how much you accomplish in your garden by yourself. It would be wonderful to have so many beautiful plants like the blue bells and ferns just come up on their own each year. A rare thing in our dry Utah climate. Looking forward to the banana plant!! 😊❤

[@diannpavelka4505]

Don't be so hard on yourself. You have amazing gardens and we all love to see them. Smile, your gardens are beautiful!!!

[@debs-more-plants]

Nice stroll! Enjoy your breakfast!

[@katiedc8239]

Your gardens are so lovely and so natural looking. And I said it last week, will say it again, I really, really am enjoying these casual weekly strolls. Thanks for all you do!

[@karenbergstrand2772]

I laughed out loud at your lily of the valley comment -- I totally agree!

[@suburbangardeningcouple]

Thanks for the shout out on the climbing rose! 😄 Ours is fully leafed out and COVERED in buds!

[@alexandraemanuel2968]

Thank you for sharing as always, your videos always make me feel I'm watching a real life garden. Love the tour.

[@joycemoulis4392]

Love, love, love these garden walks! And I second the thought that "we don't need perfection for beauty"..... it's all beautiful in your garden and in ours. Enjoy it all! 😊 thanks for sharing your garden. Joyce gardening in Overland Park Kansas

[@KarenFisher-yq4if]

I always enjoy your walks through your garden! I love that you like common plants along with the unusual. It makes the garden more interesting and inspiring too. The primulas are so pretty, will have to try those.

[@lynnmacleod1879]

Erin I like these as it is videos....it's easier on you to produce for sure and more reality in our own gardens. Save the fuss for the formal tours....less stress more enjoyment overall.

[@bridgeth7961]

I planted Crown Imperial Fritillaria's 4 years ago. They are blooming for the first time this year. I'm so happy.

[@rozl6178]

I have the lemony lime elderberry too, and it’s a beautiful source of brightness and contrast. Lovely walk today!

[@paulacothren3591]

All Hail The Mighty Banana!!!!

[@terrivance8750]

Erin, Lovin' the weekly garden strolls! This one's especially sweet, 'cause it shows how different the garden looks in the rain. Btw, my Mayapples opened up about a week ago. I adore them, too. I planted them in my Fairy Garden--an apt location. Thank you. 😊

[@lorinsmall5403]

Thanks for talking about the clematis issue again. I love it when someone tells me I'm right 😉😊

[@kathystarnes6744]

Omg girlfriend! You crack me up!😆 love your sense of humor!💚💚

[@Corinne-rc4xm]

Love these videos! I am in the Vancouver area, Canada… the northwest. Rainy as can be! My garden looks like yours sortof albeit much smaller. It’s nice to see a garden I can relate to… not perfect but beautiful in its own way! Thanks for sharing and “keeping it real”! 😎🇨🇦

[@tlovesgreens8244]

I really love your garden because you have such a unique way of planting with beautiful eccentric plants.

[@cindybohl9593]

Love your garden tours! Thanks for keeping it real. None of our gardens are perfect. Yours is lovely Erin! Love all the daffodils and those primroses! Just wow! It’s so fun seeing your garden come to life after a long winter. Keep your oriole feeders up. I am in central Illinois and the orioles have arrived at my house! There were three of them this morning. 🍊🍊🍊

[@marianafranowicz]

😂 thank you for the useful plant info and your lovely humor

[@MinnTee]

I am loving these tours. It is so fun to see how things are growing week to week. Thank you! Beautiful!

[@kturula7017]

I'm envious of your Virginia Bluebells. I planted 4 roots this spring and nothing has come up yet. I think they are so pretty. I do have a patch of Solomon Seal. One plant I did not plant appeared about 4 years ago and now there is a patch of about 15 plants. I'm delighted with it. My daffs are done. I gave up on tulips. The squirrels demolish them. All I have blooming right now is heuchera and brunnera. Primrose would be lovely. I'll have to look for some. My mom used to have them in her garden. What she called them in Ukrainian would translate as "God's little hands". I wonder how that name came about. I enjoy your walk-abouts. It's like visiting a friend in their garden.

[@sassafrasinspired2029]

Love all your gorgeous woodland natives. Your yard is beautiful.

[@cherylt6888]

Watched this before the beast of refresh of clematis planters. Going to watch all previous videos. Hope pancakes were delicious 😊. Always enjoy your videos.

[@mina-ala]

Erin! Fellow wisconsinite here! I had pancakes this morning, too! 😂🥞 Been loving this series! ❤

[@venusgarden959]

Absolutely amazing🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹❤❤❤❤❤❤😮😮😮😮😮😮

[@gwenb4531]

I live just south of you so it is nice to see other gardens near my area. I can relate to the weather and the progress of things growing in my climate. Thanks for taking us along!

[@wildbirdfarm]

It’s so interesting to see your natural, self-planted woodland areas. Being surrounded by farm ground in middle USA, everything planted on our property has been put there by our hands or is clearly a weed.

[@Kate98755]

thanks…I can’t stop thinking about pancakes !

[@emkn1479]

The opening coat zip gave me major Mr. Rogers vibes.

[@gingercashman3289]

Thanks for sharing Erin. Happy Gardening!

[@barbaramccann7944]

Time to brew another cup of tea, yippee! I already enjoyed my blueberry pancake and bacon, yum!

[@lindasomerville4450]

Same here, but cottage cheese pancakes today.

[@beverleysimmons7885]

Lovely video. I did not know about that container tip. Definitely will keep in mind for the new patio addition on the corners. 💝🇨🇦.

[@mariemcgrath8681]

Lovely stroll through your beautiful garden. Love from Australia.

[@stephaniesharkey3538]

Love Bunny Guinness too !

[@upnorth21]

It's so fun to walk around the garden this time of year to see what's coming up. I'm adding more Primula to my garden. So pretty in the spring. Enjoy your pancakes. That's for including us in your Sunday morning. :)

[@karenschwartz5209]

Thanks 😊

[@DouglasDrake-o8e]

I live in south central WI zone 4. Your garden is so far ahead of mine! Lots of rain here too and things are starting to green up and leave out. Enjoyed the walk with you,

[@rhondaschenk5727]

It’s all looking great, Erin! Love your gardens!

[@KathrynHollingsworth-vu3ff]

Thanks for this great video and update on clematis.😊 So comforted that you have the same occasional "duh" moments like me! By and large, it's just livin and learnin! Keep the vids coming.

[@carmenbailey1560]

Everything has away to come all at once., making for a lot of work. Thanks for your updates. 👍❤️🙂

[@lynnpurse]

Wonderful tour, so many great ideas, thank you Erin!

[@kgeeplays]

Funny thing for me about Solomon’s seal. Someone must have shared divisions of it around because all my new neighbours and me have it in their yards. It looks like it has taken over some of them. I don’t like it and I tried to dig mine out, but the crown was so fibrous I could not get a shovel into it - so I covered it with 1/2 a cubic yard of crummy soil from a local landscape supply company and every time I see stalks coming up and I hack at the crown with a shovel. Seems to be working; we’ll see what it does next year!

[@MyFocusVaries]

Beautiful tour. I love primulas. As long as I plant them in the shade, they're perennial for me in 7b Vancouver BC. Otherwise they an annual. It was so lovely to see them as wildflowers in England last spring. Beautiful.

[@AJsGreenThumbLLC]

Absolutely LOVED this upload Erin! I have finally found a neat representation of Virginia blue bells....I potted up a few roots earlier this spring and they are coming along nicely. Now I just need to find a space to plant them. Yours are gorgeous. Yes, I love watching Ms. Guiness; she is a wealth of inspiring ideas--- the bottomless pots is so smart.

[@carolpipher4839]

😅~Beautiful Erin!! Tis the Season! We're all raring to go👍🌱

[@ingehoughton6914]

I so enjoy your garden walks!! Thank you for all of the wonderful info you provide while doing them, too! I had a lovely Lemony Lime Elderberry. Grew in my garden for two years and in the third year, it fell sick to verticillium wilt and I had to dig it out. It was next to a black lace elderberry which is still doing fine. I hope this next one of yours survives! I wish there was something to prevent it. If you know any solutions, I'd love to know. Thanks, Erin!

[@ladikmk]

It's wonderful to see gardens waking up after their long Winter's sleep. I have a huge circle of variegated Solomon's Seal and last year dug out almost all of them to give away. This Spring the entire circle around my Serviceberry is completely filled in again. They were determined to grow apparently. Hope your breakfast pancakes were yummy. Thanks for the Spring walk through your garden Erin.

[@jayneteal-jeffery6283]

I love all the primulas. So pretty. My brunnera has become invasive. Happy Sunday.

[@LeahNess-t7o]

Cup of hot tea and I'm ready for a tour.❤🎉🎉 thank you!😊

[@LeahNess-t7o]

Hope your pancakes were fantastic!!😊

[@TheImpatientGardener]

They were so good. Allison Roman’s buttermilk pancake recipe from the New York Times. So good. 😊

[@LeahNess-t7o]

@TheImpatientGardener oh thanks. I will try them.❤️

[@lgarden7086]

As I was watching this video my Mr was making blueberry pancakes for dinner…yum the smell…now I want him to try this recipe. Come for the garden leave with the pancakes 😊

[@robynwalters6083]

Finally someone who hate rock mulch. I now have to sift large rock chip out of straight dirt….

[@evanorvell8368]

Can you turn the pots on their side and take the bottom (and the weed barrier) out without causing too much damage? Love the garden strolls, and hooray for the banana plant!

[@DarlaPenados-rp1ss]

What a beautiful property you have lot work lol! But worth it

[@hollys8242]

Love the weekly Garden strolls! Thank you!

[@kimberlywilliams3008]

Love the walk about the garden tours. Seeing everything at different stages is really interesting & educational. 😊

[@brookerlay]

Loving the tours Erin! 😊

[@ginnysulya9805]

Hi Erin, I just love to see your beautiful blend of natural woodland plants and things you have planted! I love to walk in the woods at this time of year and enjoy the trillium, both white and red. The wild species tulips, bloodroot, jack in the pulpit, and the big beautiful skunk cabbage! I would love to try to thin our forest area so that it allowed more light in summer and possibly figure out how it could retain more moisture to grow some of these native plants! Do you know of any resources that would be helpful? I am in the Finger Lakes of New York zone 6a.

[@rickyt3961]

thank you!

[@amyc9642]

Love this format!

[@pepperreed.33]

The plant at 21:30 looks like Cardamine bulbosa (Spring Cress), a native plant to the upper Midwest. It also might be C. douglassii (I can't see the leaves clearly). There are a few 'nativars' that are sold retail - 'Fairy Lights' and 'Snow Showers' from Plant Delights, but this looks like it could just be the species. I wish I could grow the native bluebells -- we're too high and dry on the esker. My Dad taught us the way to a girl's heart was through pancakes. I'm glad Mr. Much More Patient went to get that sorted for Sunday morning!

[@penelopestewartartist1914]

Love primulas how wonderful for your woodland garden.

[@ThScarletPimpernel]

So cool to have native skunk cabbage and marsh marigolds !!

[@toddwiese7023]

Fun to watch

[@frasersgirl4383]

So amazingly beautiful…..

[@jimoviegirl]

I love these videos. Hope you enjoyed your pancakes Xx

[@lovelight9164]

I planted one of my clematis in a pot this year because I moved her arch and moved her to a place that I'm not sure she will love and I want the ability to move her back to a sunnier location this fall if she doesn't do much this season.

[@susannahlewis8464]

It's crazy to see the difference in how late everything is in your garden versus mine in Zone 8a NC.

[@brianjohnson1346]

haven't heard the term "chuckablock" in years!!!

[@SMElder-iy6fl]

I long for rain. We've pretty much had 2:37 none for 2 summers, and no snow for 2 winters. I'm already watering.

[@dustyflats3832]

That’s us also in many parts of WI, but we just went up another notch on the drought monitor to abnormally dry 🎉.

[@dustyflats3832]

This is too funny-you have surprise tulips and so do I this year and I never planted them that I recall and They are Yellow! Then you were discussing the dead branch on the pear and we both went “Hmm” at the same time😂. I was wondering if it’s sunscald and would benefit from a scrap of burlap in that area over the winter. I learned the hard way when my Autumn Blaze 20’ maple got a frost crack-it killed it. The bark wasn’t thick enough yet. Since then I trained a sucker out of that same root system and it surpassed a 10’ new maple in one year. I was pretty bummed because as we age it takes a long time to see trees and what we have are all native oak and cedars=boring. Well we didn’t get all the heavy rain north of Madison, but you got it. I’m really happy we pulled out of severe drought and now abnormally dry level. We have Green Grass!🎉. The rain is later than expected and the chickens keep going in and out so I know when it’s pizzling out. Wanted to get much more transplanting done of veg and flowers and will need to wait. So today I will separate doubled tomato seedlings. You haven’t been in severe drought by Milwaukee and I’m not sure if it was the warm winter and/or the rain, but I’m seeing a lot of happy surprises that either wintered over or magically appeared like the tulips or the coneflower and columbine in the veg bed. I had artichokes overwinter!🤩 It almost seems unbelievable and feels this will be a grand year of gardening!👩‍🌾 You sound as discouraged about lily of the valley as I do about plantain hostas-What a weed! That creeping sedum called Steppables that I warned about spreading throughout the grass I recently found it is called stonecrop and they actually SELL the seed for it!🤦‍♀️. I can hear the rain on the metal roof and it’s pure joy! 🥰 Thanks for the rainy Sunday tour! It’s nice to see new plants that can be grown in my area.

[@jillstange6426]

Question for you: I live in Janesville, WI and so far I have found 3 ticks crawling on me this week after I came inside from doing brief jobs. Do you spray yourself for ticks, each and every time that you walk through your garden or work in it? I have gone 25 years straight without seeing a single tick before this week!!! And, yes, we have deer walking through out property, but they always have. Thanks! Love your episodes!!!🥰

[@dustyflats3832]

We’ve been watching for ticks also north of Madison-none yet. With warmer winters we will be seeing other ticks not normally in this state. I’m hoping the roosters help out. All animals and rodents can carry them into the yard. I have so much fencing it looks like a zoo here😂.

[@jillstange6426]

Oh wow! Thanks for the info!

[@pamelawilliamson-in2el]

Enjoying your tours, also enjoy your pancake breakfast 😊...I was wondering about your chive border. Do you deadhead to keep from spreading? Also, is there a particular variety you find better to use for your border than otherwise. I'm thinking of doing a border also. Thank you.

[@Edu_Kate]

I always deadhead my chives. The clump still expands over time. Last year, I divided mine by about half, shared with passersby in the neighborhood and this year it's going strong.

[@dustyflats3832]

I have garlic chives and regular. Love the smell of garlic chives in bloom, but must cut them before seeding. I just weeded them out of the asparagus as the roots are fairly deep and many.

[@patmarchand7363]

Hi you have such beautiful gardens love the wooded areas and you have plants I have never seen or heared of before which is so refreshing ❤🇨🇦

[@roslynholcomb]

Was so happy to see your climbing hydrangeas. I finally bought two. Normally I don’t buy large plants but I took your advice and got the largest they had-#3. Definitely some sticker shock but I know they’ll be so gorgeous climbing my oak trees. Those Virginia bluebells are absolutely gorgeous. Can’t wait to get some. You always have so many good ideas. I’d never heard of Bunny Guinness but removing the bottom of the pot is an absolute genius idea. We’ve struggled with the same issue. Can’t wait to do it this fall. Great video.

[@irma_brenton]

Happy Sunday morning!💘

[@gloriaruiz2332]

🙏🏻

[@RVBadlands2015]

I do that all my pots I cut the bottom out.

[@Spiritledhomestead]

lol new subscriber! I love AH-ha moments😂

[@RichardPallardy]

Love the bluebells. How long do you wait before pulling them to ensure they seed themselves and you have a crop for the next year? Do they regenerate from the roots left behind too?

[@karenschwartz5209]

😊

[@roxanneturpin620]

Inspiring!

[@shellyroman1321]

I love watching your videos! You deal with a lot of the same weather as I do here in MN, and it helps me feel better about the state of our spring... your plants are waking up beautifully!♡

[@Edu_Kate]

I think our relatively mild winter and early spring set we gardeners up. I'm so antsy for garden centers to start stocking annuals (I ordered way too many perennials online over winter). I'm in Minneapolis. At least it's giving me grace to slowly clean up beds in anticipation of the fun work to come.

[@shellyroman1321]

​@Edu_Kate yes, I agree. I am loving the rain today... we need it to get growing!♡

[@dustyflats3832]

WI here and I hope Accuweather’s future forecast is true as I don’t see any freezing temps which would be Really Odd for us. I’m forging ahead with frost clothes at the ready! I need the room in the greenhouse and some of those plants are screaming their shoes are too tight😅. Because of the warmer than usual winter I have discovered so many surprises like artichokes and carnations! I think it’s going to be a great year for garden as the rain is returning. The only thing about the warmer temps is if it fools the fruit and freezes-not good.

[@desireehouse]

I like your garden tour, not too long with enough info to get a feel for it. I’m in northeastern PA, zone 6b. I dug put some Solomon’s seal today since it was getting into the lady’s mantle and a low growing hemlock. Those runners are stout! Garden season is kicking into high gear here!

[@Kate98755]

I adopted a second dog on Friday and took her back this morning, Sunday. She will be someone’s wonderful dog. I had a moment where I thought how great would it be to have two dogs! My border collie/GSP is 2.5 yrs old, she really warmed up to the puppy…but I had to keep the puppy corraled away because she had kennel cough….but our Molly was wanting to play, gave her lots of time to smell another dog. The adoption place said she was a border collie mix…but the app animal indentifier said she’s an English Pointer/Dalmatian mix….that’s an even more bouncy dog, and from the size of her paws she could be bigger than our dog. An adult female range is 44lb-66lbs….and they’re jumpers. 😳so she would probably clear the corral i built that holds my dog out of my planting beds. I slept on the floor with this puppy, I cried as we drove, I couldn’t talk once we got there…I wanted to keep her, but the best thing is to return her so she could find a good forever home. I’d forgotten how tough it is to have a puppy, my 2.5 yr old takes coordination trying to exercise her daily…how was I going to do this? I feel such guilt adopting and then returning her so quick, but I know at my age I’m no longer able to do this…She wasn’t potty trained, i managed in those few hours to have 3 poos and several pees in the yard, she did get out of the shelter for 2 days, saw sunshine….she and her litermates were left by the side of a highway, they’ve all been adopted, so now she’s back alone in the shelter, i’m so sad, can’t stop crying…. Erin your humor is just what I needed this morning. 😢

[@beckyscheller9358]

Always love a tour❤

[@YarrowPressburg]

Hi, l’ve have heard shoving a pressure washer into the pot to force the soil out works,never tried it. Thanks for your showing all the the troubleshooting.