Evaluation Garden Late Summer Tour Episode

[@danc5434]

the sounds of all the bugs 😍

[@dc0145a]

Thoroughly enjoyed this tour. So inspiring.

[@RoyDiblik]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@queen_sophie7515]

I love every single plant in this video!!!! I want each and every one!!!! Thanks for sharing.

[@RoyDiblik]

Thanks for watching!

[@klcpca]

I would love to spend a few... ok.... many!! hours just slowing rambling through your gardens, especially during different times of the year. Each time would be a new experience with what's in bloom! I really enjoy the "haphazard" way things just pop up to surprise the viewer. Love all the creatures hanging out!!!

[@RoyDiblik]

So nice of you...the gardens def get rave reviews from the animal/insect life!

[@p.h.c.1113]

So many different plants, amazing! My main thought is, that I always enjoy learning about plants from you. Last month my daughter and I drove up from Illinois, we enjoyed Northwind so much! After watching so many of your videos I knew I had to visit eventually. My daughter doesn't do any gardening, but she sure enjoyed your display garden in all its summer glory!

[@RoyDiblik]

That is awesome!

[@southjps]

Great stuff Roy! Thank you for sharing. Looking forward to the next path.

[@RoyDiblik]

More to come!

[@maryschneider3348]

Thank you for the video! Love to hear your unique knowledge and experience with plants and how they interact in the garden. You've helped me to look at my gardens through another lense.

[@RoyDiblik]

Thanks for watching!

[@GardenEvolution]

If your looking for other cultivated coneflowers Baja burgundy is amazing! I have orange and it seems to stay squat for me but burgundy is amazing!

[@RoyDiblik]

Thanks for the tip!

[@tracyehrenberg6074]

love the walkabout, looking forward to the next

[@RoyDiblik]

thank you!

[@marthabourassa7909]

Thanks so much for the tour. The only thing I would love to see would be if you could include the common names of the plants in your presentations. The botanical names are complex and, for me, hard to remember.

[@RoyDiblik]

To be honest, I only work with latin names. I know it can be confusing but a simple google search will give you the common names, of which there can be many for a single plant.

[@emkn1479]

That native petunia is so quaint. Who knew? I’d like to track down seeds. There’s no nursery like yours around here unfortunately.

[@cindydamrow1031]

Check out Prairie Moon Nursery(Winona, MN)online for Wild Petunia-Ruellia seeds. I might add that another native, Callihoe bushii or Bush's Poppy Mallow, is another low grower, with a long bloom time.

[@emkn1479]

@@cindydamrow1031 Thanks. I was on their site yesterday and found ruellia along with far too many other things I’d like to grow 🙈

[@bellarosa009]

I've never heard of succisella inflexa. What a name! LOL. It looks like a pinchusion flower, i.e. scabiosa? Also, is the Echinacea Sombrero Adobe Orange a first year plant or did it overwinter for you? I have found that a lot of the new hybrids are not winter hardy in my Zone 5b, NW Illinois garden.

[@RoyDiblik]

Echinacea Sombrero Adobe Orange - this is its fourth year! thanks for watching!

[@Zylork0122]

That hemerocallis looks like Chicago Apache but I don’t think it gets that tall.

[@Olivia54984]

Doesn't bloom that late in WI, either.

[@swingandshout]

Thanks for the tour of your “laboratory”. I knew you were a mad genius. I’ve been rereading your book and was interested in the Cassian Schmidt gravel technique. You said that you had Created a gravel garden in that style. My question is whether you’ve done any videos demonstrating that method and shown the results? Would technique work in a Colorado garden that might get 15” of precipitation?

[@mycomment3509]

He's done a video on this. Just search among the vids. As I remember, he just tells quickly how it works - putting the gravel and letting come through the plants. You'll learn more in listening to the mediterannean conference here Cassian Schmidt argues with Olivier Fillippi (who get's it all wrong) but best are still the German books by C.S.

[@RoyDiblik]

we have one coming out soon on a gravel garden we did at Argonne National Laboratory in Aurora, IL recently. Stay tuned!