Creating Pockets of Beauty In A Suburban Garden. July Garden Tour 2024.

In this video I tour the garden of my friend, and gardener Maureen of Parsons Peonies. Maureen has been creating gardens in her suburban garden for several years. All of her gardens are DIY by Maureen, and her husband Jim. As things mature, you can find pockets of beauty everywhere. She has an eye for container planting combinations, as well as for plant combinations in her garden flower beds. Come along and tour Maureen's beautiful garden with me. Thanks for watching- Steph 🌱 (Gardening in Massachusetts zone 6b). #gardening #gardentour #landscape #design #plants
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Maureen's Instagram: Parsons Peonies: instagram.com/parsonspeonies/ Amazon link to white arbor as seen in video: amzn.to/3XNp55T In this video I tour the garden of my friend, and gardener Maureen of Parsons Peonies. Maureen has been creating gardens in her suburban garden for several years. All of her gardens are DIY by Maureen, and her husband Jim. As things mature, you can find pockets of beauty everywhere. She has an eye for container planting combinations, as well as for plant combinations in her garden flower beds. Come along and tour Maureen's beautiful garden with me. Thanks for watching- Steph 🌱 (Gardening in Massachusetts zone 6b)

[@christileach4644]

Maureen - thank you for sharing your garden with us! ❤ Steph - thank you for taking us along! ❤️ xo

[@HookedandRooted]

You are so welcome Christi! Thank you so much for watching 💚

[@Parsonspeonies]

Thank you, Christi! Garden tours are always so much fun! Glad you enjoyed it!

[@nekovero93]

With so much garden videos on YT i can only watch gardens that are really impressive. This is one of them. You guys kept it moving, no unnecessary chatting or focusing on one plant. Garden is so beautiful!!!❤

[@HookedandRooted]

Thank you so much 🥰

[@Parsonspeonies]

Thanks so much for your kind comment. I’m glad you liked it! Steph does a wonderful job!

[@PrettyLittleGarden2930]

Maureen has a beautiful garden. I can hear in her voice the passion that she has for gardening. I loved those large ruffled petunias!😍

[@HookedandRooted]

She is wonderful! and I agree, her garden is beautiful. I think we all need to grow these gorgeous super sized ruffly petunias next year 💚

[@Parsonspeonies]

@@HookedandRootedWe need to do a superbissima grow along !

[@Parsonspeonies]

You are so kind, thank you! I love that we can all share in our passion for gardening together here on social media! The superbissima petunias are a favorite, for sure!!

[@PrettyLittleGarden2930]

@@Parsonspeonies yes!😂

[@Parsonspeonies]

Hello friends! I’m so appreciative of all of the sweet comments on this video! Thank you for taking the tour along with us. I see many specific questions, which I will certainly answer! I have a family commitment all day today, so it will most likely be later tonight or tomorrow! Special thank you to Steph, who does an incredible job putting all of her garden videos together. She certainly has a special talent, and I’m so happy our passion for gardening has brought us together as great friends!💜🌸💜🌸

[@kaya1460]

Beautiful garden! Thank you for sharing. Please do list the name of the phlox seeds in your garage container when you have time, love those and so many other things in your garden 😊

[@Parsonspeonies]

@@kaya1460Thank you so much! The purple phlox by my garage are called Blueberry Swirl and I ordered them from Select Seed!

[@jomassey4207]

It's so satisfying to know other gardeners who love to sow seed and take cuttings. The sign of a true gardener. The small "blue berry" dianthus plant would be so worth propagating, even to plant a drift in one of your front borders. Maybe some taller perenials around your hostas might help with the scorching. Penstamons and coneflowers would add a bit of shade. Jo. Love to see your garden again soon.

[@darleneoldakowski4966]

Beautiful. Can you tell me where you got your birdbath? It's gorgeous.

[@Parsonspeonies]

@@darleneoldakowski4966 Hi Darlene! I got the bird bath at a local nursery in Rhode Island. I don’t know the specific name of it, but it’s made by Campania International. Hope this helps!

[@jolielutrario6930]

Love this suburban garden tour. The colors and textures of her perennials and annuals blend so well together. Thank you for bringing us along, Steph!

[@HookedandRooted]

Glad you enjoyed it Jolie! Thank you so much for watching 💚

[@Parsonspeonies]

Thank you, Jolie!

[@lorithompson4240]

I'm so glad she shared her garden. Absolutely beautiful!!

[@msmaddox2918]

I love Maureen's garden, Steph! She has such a beautiful garden! When I saw the white arbor, I instantly knew it was her garden. 🥰

[@Parsonspeonies]

Thanks Mary!! I hope your summer is going well!!!

[@Linda_Reed]

Oh I love the idea of the silk flowers in the hanging baskets on the front door and garden gate! How clever the way maureen matched the flowers to her planters. Maureen, you have a beautiful garden. Thank you for letting Steph share it with us.

[@HookedandRooted]

Hi Linda! I thought that was so smart!! Her hanging door and gate baskets are beautiful! 💚

[@Parsonspeonies]

Thank you Linda! It’s just an easy way to add a little extra to that spot! I usually try to switch the flowers out for spring/summer, fall, and Christmas.

[@barbarawilliams834]

probably my favorite garden tour this season!! full of varying colors and textures but not jammed pack so you can enjoy the individuality and the big picture ❤❤

[@Parsonspeonies]

That comment was so sweet Barbara, and made my day! Thank you! Steph does a great job capturing all the little details that make our gardens so beautiful! I feel lucky to have had her do a video!

[@QueenAnnesLace13]

I really enjoyed this garden tour. Thank you Steph for convincing Maureen to show us her garden. I hope we get to visit again.

[@HookedandRooted]

Thank you so much! I was so glad she was up to it also! She has already agreed to let me come over to do a tour again later this season 💚

[@Parsonspeonies]

Thank you! Yes, we are planning another one!

[@Darceys_Flowers]

Such a beautiful garden Maureen! I love how you just go through weeding and deadheading as we tour. That's what we gardeners do, always cleaning up. Thanks for filming maureen's garden for us 😊

[@Parsonspeonies]

Haha! You are so right Darcey! For so long I hated to have people tour my garden if it wasn’t “perfectly weeded.” As my garden has grown, it is virtually impossible to keep up with the weeds! This particular day we didn’t plan a garden tour, it just organically happened. So I was definitely trying to weed a bit here and there as we walked along!😂

[@juliestitt3343]

Maureen, your gardens are stunning!! Wow! Thanks for sharing them with us. I believe those squiggly lines on the leaves you pulled off are leaf minors. It's a little worm that burrows through the leaves. Get rid of them! 😝 Thanks, Steph, for introducing Maureen and her garden to us. The tour was very inspirational!

[@barbb.9489]

Steph, this was such a nice garden tour at Maureen's. So beautiful; she has a great eye for color combinations. Thanks to Maureen for sharing her garden.

[@HookedandRooted]

Hi Barb! Thank you so much. Maureen has a beautiful garden, and you are right, a great eye for plant combinations. I'm so grateful for our friendship, and her willingness to share her garden with all of us 💚

[@Parsonspeonies]

@@HookedandRooted💜💜

[@Parsonspeonies]

Hi Barb! Thank you for the kind comment! Thank you for “coming along” the tour with us! Steph does an amazing job in all of her videos, and I’m so thankful she chose to feature mine!

[@aliceelbradey6278]

Such a beautiful garden thanks for sharing ❤❤❤❤❤

[@Parsonspeonies]

Thank you!

[@mariacosta6086]

Maureen has a beautiful garden. Such beautiful plants . Thank you for taking us along.❤❤❤

[@Parsonspeonies]

Thank you, Maria! Happy gardening!

[@Cmash5195]

Maureen, you have a beautiful garden. Thanks for allowing Steph to share it with us. We can hear the passion for gardening in both your voices.

[@Parsonspeonies]

You are so kind! Steph and I are lucky enough to live about 20min apart, so we get together somewhat regularly, and we find ourselves chatting for literally hours about gardening. It’s so fun to have a friend with similar interests!

[@dianericci325]

Your gardens are just stunning Maureen. Would love to learn more about that trailing flocks from proven winners, and that it grows like that in the shade is amazing. 👍

[@HookedandRooted]

Hi Diane! Maybe Maureen can chime in here for us and let us know the variety of trailing phlox she has on her front porch pots by proven winners. I know the trailing variety in her large garage planter, she started from seed as a good alternative, and its beautiful. That variety she purchased from select seeds, and its called "Blueberry Swirl" www.selectseeds.com/products/phlox-blueberry-swirl-seeds Hope this helps, and thank you so much for watching!

[@Parsonspeonies]

Hi Diane! I appreciate your comment, thank you so much! The PW variety is called Intensia Blueberry phlox. My front door pots get morning sun, until about 12-1pm I think, so I was also impressed these phlox did so well in only part sun. In my area I can’t always get my hands on this particular Proven Winners annual, so I went online and was so happy to find similar seeds from Select Seed. They were almost a match visually, and they turned out to be great performers as well! Good luck!

[@caroldavis3497]

Wow Maureen's flowers are just beautiful, love those ruffled petunias !!

[@HookedandRooted]

They are gorgeous Carol! 🌱

[@smilygirlhappy23]

Beautiful garden Maureen! You have such an eye for pairing different plant textures. Thank you and Steph for sharing! I definitely got a lot of inspiration for my own garden!

[@Parsonspeonies]

That’s awesome!! Thanks so much!

[@BeginAgainatHome]

Wow, this garden is absolutely gorgeous! I am just starting with a blank slate, and I'm excited to see what is possible with years of love and hard work. 😍

[@Parsonspeonies]

Thank you, Jenn! Good luck with your new garden! How exciting!

[@nancylafferty8362]

Really love her garden! Thank you!

[@bonnielamb2170]

Such a beautiful garden ❤️. Thank you Maureen and Steph 😊

[@diannedolha2318]

Wonderful plantings and cohesive garden. I especially love the black window box with the Midnight petunia and the chartreuse verbena. Thanks for sharing.

[@user-pt6lh4oo3g]

Flower Garden beautiful.. 😭🥰👍🌷😘🌹💐😁

[@kkcarricaburu6042]

That window box is stunning🌿

[@sarahmarti141]

Maureen has an incredible eye for color and texture. Garden envy!

[@taragoodloe4122]

What a beautiful garden tour. Thanks so much Steph!

[@user-me3wt1rw9f]

Thank you for the lovely garden tour. Everything is gorgeous. The arbour walk is my favourite. Vera in Northern Ireland

[@janethayes1908]

I love all the purple and yellow combinations!! My personal favorite!! Plus the purple fountain grass…the best planter staple!!

[@Parsonspeonies]

Yes!! Love the purple fountain grass as a thriller!

[@cindyhewatt3406]

Ohhhh this garden is so pretty, she has some stunning containers as well, thank you for sharing it with us, it’s definitely eye candy for me! ❤

[@SumaiyaS]

Marueen has a gorgeous selection of plants. Especially all of her pots and the way she chose her plants complimenting each other. its just wow. thanks do much for taking us along.

[@Parsonspeonies]

Thanks so much!

[@jennyharmony1371]

LOVED Maureens Garden!!!

[@Parsonspeonies]

Thank you, Jenny!💜

[@ileyburkett7814]

WOW! Gorgeous gardens. Love the window box

[@Parsonspeonies]

Thanks so much!

[@jaisarowe5285]

Hey Steph! 👋🏼 Thanks for taking us along on this tour. Love to see what other gardeners are nurturing in their gardens and seeing how their garden designs come together! Always a great inspiration. Thanks Maureen…your gardens are beautiful! 🌼🪴🌸

[@gertrudette]

Yes I love those ruffles on the patunias

[@brad823]

I was SO happy to hear that I'm not the ONLY one that cuts the Hosta blooms. I get crap for that all the time. Thank you.

[@HookedandRooted]

You're certainly not alone on that one! I know many gardeners who do. I leave mine up about a week or so, and as soon as they start to look a bit faded, I cut them off.

[@lindaga820]

I agree the aralia and the haconechloa look beautiful beautiful together !! Maureen your whole property is beautiful.

[@jjjohnston545]

This is a beautiful garden and I love her plant choices.

[@helenpecoraro9096]

Just beautiful💕💕💕 thank you for sharing❤️

[@HookedandRooted]

You are so welcome! Thank you so much for watching Helen!

[@pegquilty592]

Just beautiful Maureen, thanks for sharing with us!! 💖

[@Parsonspeonies]

Thanks so much, Peg!

[@janicesimmons4634]

Thank you ladies. Maureen your garden is beautiful. Enjoyed the tour!

[@Parsonspeonies]

Thanks so much, Janice!💚🌸

[@user-et8wz4dh7w]

Maureen’s garden is beautiful! Various colors go together so well. I live in zone 9 so have different growing, hardiness for plants. Very hot, humid. Thanks for sharing!

[@Gardenmimi1950]

Beautiful garden tour. Thanks ladies

[@user-cp5ht1th6i]

Amazing garden tour thank you Maureen for showing us your garden. I love the play on color and texture I find myself working on this in my garden. Beautiful!

[@juliecahill7550]

Thank you for sharing this lovely garden tour.😊

[@PeggyMills]

I believe the damage to the leaves are caused by leaf miners. Lovely garden.

[@pattyvalinote4612]

Beautiful garden! Lots of different types of annuals and flowering shrubs 🪴👒🪴

[@Murphyetal]

Wow, what a gorgeous garden! Lots of thought and work has gone into it! Thanks to both of you for sharing!

[@Penny21691]

Thanks Steph and Maureen! I absolutely loved the tour.

[@immitzime]

Beautiful! I'm in NC 7b and we've had no measurable rain in over a month and the heat index is 100, so everything is struggling. A pleasure to see a garden thriving.

[@HookedandRooted]

Hi there! I'm so sorry, its a tough time out in the garden when that happens. We are approaching our second heatwave in the coming week. All we can do is make sure that both we, and our gardens are hydrated.💚

[@mistysmith6152]

Great makeover, I redid my front garden with mulch also. I had old overgrown evergreen shrubs that have been dying off one by one over the past 10yrs so I decided to take all but 2 on each corner of my house. Lined my garden bed with cardboard, paver edging and filled the bed with raw tree mulch. I decided to modernize with multiple sized planters and pots with perennials and annuals for color.

[@Parsonspeonies]

Sounds like a great makeover! Happy Gardening!

[@nasus74]

Gorgeous garden! Your hard work shows in plenitude! 💐

[@Duckoff7777]

I love her garden and her voice/accent 💕💕💕

[@TashasTattoos]

I love your color pallete. Im imagining that apricot rose getting big and next to all those deep purples in the folage & flowers around it. Gorgeous

[@Parsonspeonies]

Thanks Tasha! I had actually just cut that apricot rose way back, so it does get a bit bigger! Lots of pest damage this season, unfortunately.🥲

[@Peoniesandpinks]

Love Maureen’s garden

[@HookedandRooted]

It's so pretty! 💚

[@rosemarythyme6351]

What a lovely garden! Love your color palette and textures. Even if there wasn't narrative throughout the garden tour, I noticed your attention to garden design principals. Well done!

[@jasminelouisefarrall]

Gorgeous garden 🪴 thank you so much for sharing with us 🪴🌺🪴

[@leshamonk9311]

Just beautiful.

[@pj3341]

Enjoyed this tour! The garden is stunning.

[@marigoldsky3799]

So very pretty, thank you for sharing your beautiful garden and yard with us!! I’ll for sure subscribe to Maureen’s channel!!! ☀️☀️☀️

[@kimmykat6887]

Such a beautiful garden! 😍

[@carolynmareck1182]

Beautiful garden design!!

[@gayepepper8645]

It’s so nice to see gardens from different areas of the country. I’m in Southwest Georgia. Thanks for the tour

[@lisarokusek8107]

Love this garden ❤ Thanks for sharing

[@michellebackus6424]

So gorgeous! Thank you for sharing your garden friend🌸 I'm taking notes for my pots next year and some of her great color combos💜 Thanks Steph and Maureen!!!

[@Parsonspeonies]

Thanks friend!!

[@smarthome4734]

so beautiful!!

[@patriceeverett117]

Very beautiful garden!!!

[@lindakay8171]

Thanks for the garden tour Steph and Maureen everything is beautiful. I also use the Dollar Tree waste baskets which are great for plants just emerging in the Spring and to help block areas from the squirrels digging up things.

[@HookedandRooted]

Hi Linda! Thank you so much! I agree those dollar tree waste baskets are so helpful in the garden!

[@Parsonspeonies]

They are the best!!

[@linakhoury6623]

Hi Stef🌺. Your friend's garden looks so pretty and I love how she arranged the plants in the garden and in the containers. Have a great day .🌺🌻🌺

[@ruby319able]

I love the pathways

[@jessieslay7422]

Wow..really pretty . Loved all the containers and door wreath. You definitely have a talent.

[@theleefamily6446]

It's lovely. ❤

[@bunnyluv2535]

Love the different colors of leaves/textures… glad I’m not the only one that prefers purples. Very pretty, I’m jealous I have an acre, but 1/3 of it at least is woods.

[@HookedandRooted]

Hi there! I agree Maureen's color combinations are just stunning! Yes most of us have acreage we can't use as they are either wooded, or wetlands. What Maureen did here, is so attainable for most of us gardeners. Small pockets of gardens all around, over time we have built a beautiful space all around our home 💚

[@Parsonspeonies]

Love purples!! I appreciate your kind comment!💜

[@Parsonspeonies]

@@HookedandRootedThanks Steph!💜

[@mariemcgrath8681]

Very creative gardener.

[@eschaefer6512]

Really, really lovely garden.❤

[@amydutiel3990]

Those squiggly lines are leaf miners. Bonide sells a granular systemic treatment that works well as a treatment. Lovely garden!❤

[@ruby319able]

Beautiful ❤

[@GardenMoxie]

Maureen has such a gorgeous garden. I love following her on Instagram. We need to get her to start a KZbin channel. Her garden is stunning. Great video Steph. Thanks for the tour.

[@Parsonspeonies]

You are so sweet, Sue! Thank you! And I feel the same about YOUR garden!!💚

[@GardenMoxie]

@@Parsonspeonies Thanks so much Maureen.

[@gloriaruiz2332]

So so pretty ❤🙏🏻

[@michellefrance1165]

Beautiful garden and containers so pretty ❤❤❤

[@HookedandRooted]

Thank you so much Michelle 🥰

[@Mariefrancegrsce]

Wow 👌👏beautiful

[@joettedignanweir6893]

Thank you for sharing this beautiful garden with us. It’s always interesting to see how plants are used, and how they do, in other people’s gardens. Your Bronze Fennel is beautiful and looks well behaved. I was given a start of it many years and grew it for the swallowtail butterflies. I loved how the airy fronds contrasted with other perennials in the bed. Alas, in my Northeast Ohio garden, it reseeded everywhere and had to go.

[@Danielle.Skelton]

Beautiful garden 🤍

[@meldog7925]

Beautiful garden ❤

[@kimtoledo6211]

You Ladies are so inspiring. Thank You Beloved.

[@lauriediekrager8332]

I have fixed my Dogwood's black spots by spritzing Mir.acid water on the leaves. The last few years it has helped.

[@Parsonspeonies]

That’s a great tip, Laurie! Thanks for sharing. Definitely plan to look into it!

[@deniseb7013]

Beautiful 🌹

[@beckyk2581]

Beautiful garden! P.S. I'm from the Chicagoland area, and I enjoy hearing your Northeastern accents! It's subtle, but I can hear it. So fun to hear different accents. Love it!

[@zhalehghasabimilani7712]

Beautiful garden 😍

[@Parsonspeonies]

Thank you!

[@christinenagel8300]

So pretty!! Thanks Maureen for sharing!!!

[@gertrudette]

I have those on my day lilies and I was told it's a Leaf borer that makes those squiggly lines.

[@lwilliams4198]

Beautiful garden.

[@Parsonspeonies]

Thank you!

[@annann-fn2zi]

Maureen”s garden is gorgeous. Would be helpful to know the age of the plants. It’ll give newbies like me an idea of how long such a lovely garden would take to grow

[@HookedandRooted]

Hi there! I will see if Maureen chimes in here with how old most of her planting beds are? I know that as gardeners we are forever adding plants and moving things around, but in general, with perennials there's the saying of: The first year they sleep, the second year they creep, the third year they leap! So usually around 3 years they are a good size plant if they are healthy and in the plants preferred growing environment (light conditions/water conditions). I hope this helps 😊🌱

[@Parsonspeonies]

Hello! All of my flowers have been in my garden for various amounts of time. If there is anything specific you’d like to know about, definitely ask! As Steph said, usually by year 3 things really start to put on a show, and really fill out. If you have the patience, you will be able to split a lot of your own plants to create new ones, and kind of “shop” in your own garden. I have lived in my house for 20years, so it’s been a long, slow process. Hope that helps!

[@jacquiedavis4918]

Wow!

[@graciemae9309]

Thanks for sharing your garden, it’s absolutely beautiful. I have petunias that look the same that I purchased from Burpee seeds.

[@LifeHomeandGardenwithAnaRica]

Such a beautiful suburban garden. Thanks for showing it with us.

[@JRP58]

What a stunning garden! Thank you for sharing it with us.

[@mercury_rising]

I love the window box! 😊

[@shervin6711]

Beautiful gardens! Thank you for sharing! Lovely ideas!

[@JoyfulJerseyGardening]

Such a beautiful space Maureen! Your fenced in garden area is just so charming. Thank so much for sharing.