August Garden Tour 🌱🌻💕 | Cut Flower Victory at Last

[@tracythomas343]

I’m such a huge fan of coleus. The variation colors is just so stunning. I love the one you have behind your couch. ❤️🪴

[@HelloGarden]

Me too! It’s such a good addition to summer containers.

[@jennifergreene8891]

Hi Kate 👋 Everything looks beautiful 😍 I love it all!! That Coleus is STUNNING!! Thank you my friend for another great garden tour. 💜🙏💜

[@HelloGarden]

Well thank YOU for being here! 💜

[@judymckerrow6720]

Thank you Kate. 😊🌺💚🙃

[@HelloGarden]

You are so welcome!🤗

[@kfetter9046]

One of my favorite CA native grasses is Calamagrostis foliosa, aka, Leafy Reed Grass. Just saying the name sounds like a spell from Harry Potter, LOL! I tried to grow dahlias for the first time this year, and I regret not pinching them back when I had the chance. They are sooo tall and lanky now, and I know I am only going to get a few flowers. But they are special because they are from my mother's garden. Next year I will definitely pinch them! Your snaps are beautiful! I was given a couple of freebies from a local nursery a couple of years ago because they thought they were dying, and were going to toss them. Believe it or not, they are very tall and still blooming, and I am collecting their seeds. I love Fall, and it has really been in the air here for a couple of weeks. The warmth of the sun is no longer searing, there is a cooler breeze, hints of red are developing in the leaves of my persimmon tree and blueberry bushes, and it just feels calmer. 😄💐

[@HelloGarden]

I love all of this… and plant names are totally Harry Potter spells. 🤣enjoy those dahlias and also don’t be afraid to cut deep when making a bouquet! It’ll help.

[@BradPaulson-o8c]

Hello Kate from zone 4a, thanks for showing the beautiful "Honorine Jobert Japanese Anemone" I just love whispy plants. Gonna give it a try. 🥰

[@HelloGarden]

Oh yay!!! They are so gorgeous and super hardy in my climate… which is everything I want in a plant.

[@Cynthia-zz1vi]

Such beauties love your color choices too

[@HelloGarden]

Thank you so much! 💞

[@julesdavis1845]

Love it. Thanks.

[@HelloGarden]

Thank you for being here! ☺️

[@annsfrench]

I like erigeron too! 😊 It does get a bit out of contol in my zone 10a garden but it pulls out easily.

[@HelloGarden]

Oh I can totally see it doing that in warmer climates. Up here it is self seeding a bit but nothing too crazy. And I kinda love that it’s making its way around. 😊

[@darlenethompson1438]

Coleus is beautiful ❤

[@HelloGarden]

I’m super impressed with it.

[@DiMarie-6b]

Enjoying watching this tour tonight sipping on my Hello Garden chamomile tea! ~ Di

[@HelloGarden]

Awww… Di, this made me so happy. I hope you’re loving the tea! Big hugs!

[@suekrebs3497]

Thank you for the beautiful tour! I also grow lots of snapdragons from seed. Costa Apricot blooms non stop. Potomac Appleblossom is also a favorite. I grow the Madame Butterfly mix as well as Bronze with white, Ivory and Cherry Rose. A pink that I love is Bridal pink from Johnny's. I also pinched all the tops, put them in potting soil, so lots of snapdragons for me. Enjoy your holiday weekend! I am excited because I'm going with my sister to a beautiful family garden center on a dairy farm later this morning. It is beautifully landscaped with flower beds around the barn and silos. It is Eberts Greenhouse in Ixonia, Wisconsin.

[@HelloGarden]

Well I passed on Bridal Pink but I might have to revisit it! How do your Costa’s look from a form perspective? Similar to mine? Oh! And have so much fun on your sister date. I just love that. 💕

[@suekrebs3497]

​@HelloGarden Yes, my Costa Apricot looks like yours. They add a punch of color, but I haven't cut them for arrangements this year.

[@Pipscape]

Here in California we use rice straw on veggie beds and boxes. It is the best thing for moisture retention, weed suppression, and mostly breaks down in a single year, depending on application thickness. In spring I stir it into the top few inches or remove it to the compost pile when I'm ready for planting. Straw (not hay) also prevents compaction and nutrient loss in raised beds from heavy winter rains. Straw is also great in pots as a mulch to prevent compaction from hose watering or water loss in our high temp summers. I use it on the strawberry and blueberry bed, and on planting spaces waiting for the right timing for planting. Keeps the weeds down. Your dahlia beds and all of the cut flower garden, really, would love to have this protection. And it will helps suppress weeds. 😁

[@HelloGarden]

You are echoing everything I’ve read! I actually have two more bales of straw that I was thinking of applying to the cut flower garden. I also noticed that it’s keeping the soil super cool which might be amazing for starting my winter crops even when it’s in the 70’s and 80’s this week. Love all this knowledge you’re sharing here!

[@Pipscape]

@@HelloGarden Love the community of gardeners you have here. I may live closer to Janey from DPWR, but I grew up in the PNW and still visit family in the San Juans regularly. 🥰 Had to learn a new way to garden down here, but straw bales have made me and my master gardener friends better, more successful, linger season, and happier gardeners for the last 15 years. 💪🏻🎉

[@SHarri-mu1mi]

The Elma Fudd reference made me 😆. Hopefully you’ll be more successful than he was in the bunny battles. Love your glads…such beautiful hues. And your planters are all gorgeous. I am going to need the source for the very cute shoes!

[@HelloGarden]

Awww… thank you! They are Troentorp clogs. 💕

[@franosullivan-o7u]

Hi Kate, been suscribed to ur channel since i first seen u on DWR wit janey. Absolutely love ur channel but wat makes it is not only ur gardening know how but ur personality surpasses all. Your enthusiasm, joy and lovliness whilst giving expert advice makes ur channel such a happy place so thankyou so much also for ur great sense of fun in every vlog. Thanks from the sunny south east... Eire ❤

[@HelloGarden]

Oh my gosh. Well thank you for being here and supporting me from the beginning! I always hope to inspire joyful reconnection to the garden and so it gives me so much joy to know that’s happening. Big hugs to you!

[@pcrice-lr2dn]

Everything is wonderful,I am a big fan of snapdragons,I think it is a childhood thing ,and dahlias too ,I always find humor in the fact that every one is so into dahlias when my daddy’s aunt was planting them 70 some years ago . She lived up in the mountains and planted them above a stone wall,row after row,coming up that gravel road and coming around the bend that was the first thing you saw before you saw her big old white farm house,a memory I will never forget. Your pots are doing great,you can just pop that petunia out. I love the straw idea ,not sure I can find it without the seed heads here but I will check it out. That planter behind your outdoor setting was a genius idea ,sun coleus do so good,I start out pinching mine several times and some look like bushes. Today we will have a 100 degree heat index,thankfully starting this weekend our temperatures go down most of next week in the upper 70’s. I can hear the angels singing 🎶 or that could be me ,I will be so happy. This has been a Hot Dry summer,…..I am over it . Happy Labor Day weekend 🎈

[@HelloGarden]

How you described your daddy’s aunt’s garden… it is totally a core memory and I could almost see it. 😍 And you all are giving me permission to rip out that scraggly petunia and do something else! Oh. And the straw is called Gardenstraw and one bag went a looooong way. It covered all of my raised bed area up top!

[@dellablair5854]

I really like the difference between the Costas and the potomacs, they would be beautiful in a flower arrangement because of the growth difference.

[@HelloGarden]

This is such a good point and one I hadn’t thought of! So thank you, friend. 😊

[@jasminelouisefarrall]

Everything is looking absolutely amazing Late 🥰🥰

[@HelloGarden]

It’s crazy how far it’s come. Thanks for being along for the ride!

[@sherylchapman4168]

Your dahlias are beginning to bloom! They are gorgeous! I am so happy for you! I love those snapdragons, too!

[@HelloGarden]

Thank you so much! This year has been such a journey and I’m so proud of how far this garden has come. And honestly, the support of everyone here has been absolutely instrumental in my progress. 🥰

[@amyjones2490]

What a fun episode. Sadly I lost control of my cut flower garden, yet again. Weeds overtook it. I don’t have a good place to store dahlia tubers so I grow from seed. It’s fun to be surprised by what colors I get and I can save seeds for the next season.

[@HelloGarden]

Oh girl. I have been there. And you are 💯 not alone! I love that you are also just going with the flow and growing dahlias your own way. It’s perfect.

[@rhondaschenk5727]

Thanks for the tour Kate! It’s all looking great really! I most love the Honorine Jobert Anemone! Thanks!

[@HelloGarden]

A fellow Honorine Jobert fan… she’s so good. 💕

[@kadydidsgarden]

So many lovely and magical things in your garden right now. ❤️ Cheers to all that August brought to us and cheers to the upcoming restful season! (P.S. My garden says “hi” back!) 🥰

[@HelloGarden]

It has come so far and I think it’s a testament to moving forward one tiny step at a time. Cheers to you, friend! Wishing you a lovely weekend with the fam!

[@kadydidsgarden]

@@HelloGarden Thank you so much! Hope you have a lovely weekend as well!

[@pattyvalinote4612]

Good morning Kate! Love your garden tours! The containers look so pretty and yes very fall like 🍂🧡🍂I do know what you mean about the season changing, I feel it too!

[@HelloGarden]

Good morning, Patty! Thank you for coming along, as always. And the change is totally here. It’s almost like I can see the sun hitting lower in the skyline… and I’m not mad about it.

[@kfaulknerstudio]

I need that Otto’s Thrill dahlia and the lavender snapdragons 😍

[@HelloGarden]

Well I won’t stop ya! 🤣 Both are spectacular. 💕

[@judyluce3141]

I need some of the little bunny grasses, adding that to my list for spring shopping❤❤

[@HelloGarden]

They’re so dang cute! I’m pretty obsessed with them this season.

[@judymckerrow6720]

I guess I don’t really look at my plants enough. 🥺🌺💚🙃

[@HelloGarden]

I maybe look at my plants too much. 🤣

[@kellymcdonald9396]

Gorgeous tour. If you love Otto’s Thrill, have you ever seen Breakout? She’s a beaut!

[@HelloGarden]

I have! Does it have a bit of yellow in it?

[@kellymcdonald9396]

@@HelloGarden it does. Yellow isn’t my thing, but it’s mostly this creamy color with blush. The yellow just makes it look like it’s glowing.

[@denisewade6439]

Kate, I’ve been trying different types of mulch in my veggie garden the last few years. I’ve tried pine straw needles and straw. I found both of these at Tractor supply, but I’m not happy with either. They don’t break down and they aren’t small like yours. Could please give a link where you found your straw! Oh! And oh my gosh I just ordered 10 dahlias from Eden Brothers. Strawberry fields and old roses? I hope and pray they’re spectacular next year!, I’m so excited every time you post! Love, love your gardens and your many unique gardens. You give me soooo much inspiration and courage to think outside my garden box!, thank you my friend! ❤️🪴🌸🌺

[@HelloGarden]

This was such a kind compliment… thank you for being here!!! Oh! And I added a link to the straw in the description for you. 😘

[@denisewade6439]

@@HelloGarden thank you! Enjoy your Saturday! Fall is almost upon us! 🐝🍂🍁🌾

[@rewbew9345]

Ha! So you’re going to Let ‘er Buck, huh? We are too. I’m from Pendleton and Round-Up is a couple weeks away.

[@HelloGarden]

Oh I’ve always wanted to go!!! I drove through Pendleton a few years back and visited a custom hat shop. I definitely have a custom Pendleton hat on my wish list.

[@rewbew9345]

@@HelloGarden if you ever want to come for Round-Up, we usually go out of town so you could stay at my house and enjoy the yard! We are less than a mile from ALL the festivities. Or…we could stay and all party!!

[@HelloGarden]

I vote we PARTY! 🎉 🤣

[@jeaniemcdaris8276]

❤

[@HelloGarden]

💕💕💕

[@ladylyonteeth3952]

Hey, Kate! love your garden! Love the pinks! Did I see that limelight hydrangeas in the shade? I would love to out that in my front yard (north), but I’m afraid it’s maybe too shady. Should I plant just one and see if it’s okay? I would love to do a whole row. ❤

[@HelloGarden]

I love to push the envelope with my plants. Those limelight’s get sun until about 2pm and then they dive into shade… so not as much as they might like, but they’re super happy in that spot. However… I started with just one. 😉

[@nancymaier4289]

You have a beautiful garden. I enjoy your content very much. What and where did you get the straw like mulch?

[@HelloGarden]

Thank you so much. So I actually found some on FB marketplace but they also sell it on Amazon and a few other sites. It’s just called “Gardenstraw”.

[@peggy-ann1961]

Lovely tour, and that coleus is amazing! You have a great videographer, is it your partner? Zone 3 Manitoba 🇨🇦👏🌸

[@HelloGarden]

That’s Brian… he’s pretty darn great! 😍

[@lesliebehrens7252]

Fun tour😁My question is about heirloom chrysanthemum. Do they all get that tall? My first year with them. Thanks much. Just found your channel and subscribed. The trip to the big nursery was super cool too.

[@HelloGarden]

This is my first time growing them so it’s going to be a group adventure! Just based on how they’re growing, I’d say they all have a different habit.

[@precursorpress5312]

My petunias started going over super early this year. They were making me sad so I just gave up and ripped all of them out last week.

[@HelloGarden]

Oh I may do the same thing. They just are getting leggy and gross. I need to remember that variety so I don’t purchase it again. The cinnamon ones are doing spectacular!

[@LeisurelyBlooms]

Beautiful 😊 I see the banana leaf plant. How do you over winter them? I got 4 at QFC for 1.00!! Oh and my garden says hello back 😉

[@HelloGarden]

Ooooo… super fun! I’m assuming you are a local NW person. I haven’t quite figured out how I’m going to overwinter mine or even if I want to. If I decide to, I’ll trim it back to about a foot, wrap the whole thing in burlap and move it to the shed or maybe the garage. But I haven’t done it before so we will be on this adventure together!

[@LeisurelyBlooms]

@@HelloGarden sounds like a plan 😉 I’m in Sequim.

[@julesdavis1845]

The saturated colors. Oo la la. Which coleus are they?

[@HelloGarden]

That was a sun Coleus called ‘Ignite Ruby Slippers’. And dang it’s doing well!

[@samaradixon4376]

❤️👍

[@HelloGarden]

🌱💞

[@lisagoggin8021]

Can I move snapdragons that are established…to another spot in my garden?

[@HelloGarden]

I haven’t. The challenges I would anticipate are them being top heavy and it being too hot and causing transplant shock. But if you’re willing to risk it, might be a fun experiment!

[@rebeccavalicoff1581]

I enjoy your tour but wish you would zoom out somewhat so we can see the big picture too!

[@HelloGarden]

We included more zoomed out perspectives in the July garden tour and also an overhead shot of the cut flower garden in the Small Space renovation of the back patio. Hope that will help give a greater sense of the garden for you!

[@wendycole703]

I think your bunny maybe pooped 💩 in your zinnia patch and gave you a new plant lol ❤❤

[@HelloGarden]

Ha ha ha! Well now I have a tomatillo patch. 🤣

[@VennieManhas]

Send me tubers I’m in Victoria BC

[@HelloGarden]

I wish I could send tubers to everyone! Maybe I’ll do another giveaway in yhe spring.