Garden Gab-Mid October

TODAY’S VIDEO:
Welcome to this episode of Garden Gab, where we talk about the garden in the garden Today we will answer questions from the videos produced
Oct. 3rd thru Oct. 10th 2024. While we are doing that we will be sharing viewer submission photos of their gardens!
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ABOUT ME: Hello, my name is Michelle and I own a garden center and floral store called The Landscape Connection. I am a volunteer master Gardener with the University of Illinois Extension. I am also a home gardener and a retired landscape designer and installer. If you like our videos please subscribe, like, share, and leave your comments and questions.
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[@annakozlowski4837]

As usual a delight with a cup of coffee on a Saturday morning what a great and loving community❤

[@gardeningTLC]

The best!

[@melindaowens1144]

What beautiful garden photos sent in by your viewers! Very inspiring!

[@gardeningTLC]

They are!

[@reneeswallow2023]

Aaahhh! Thank you for sharing my garden photo! You have helped me learn so much about how to garden successfully. Thank you for sharing your passion and knowledge! Blessings!

[@gardeningTLC]

You are so welcome!

[@tanis1111]

Thank you for answering my question Michelle I was so surprised to hear my name. I saw all the videos you talked about with the cardboard gardening and everything looks so good. What a great start for next year. I love your channel and share it all the time. Keep up the great work its such fun! Much love.

[@gardeningTLC]

You are so welcome!

[@kimchartier7689]

great photo shares everyone !

[@cf-bloom3112]

Thanks Michelle!, it's like a badge of honor to get mentioned/pics...looking forward to your projects/plans. ❤

[@gardeningTLC]

You are so welcome!

[@Jennifer-y1f]

I love your personality ❤

[@rosemarythyme6351]

Wow, fantastic viewer garden pics and questions! I forgot to mention that I garden in a new microclimate of zone 5 in Gaylord, MN. I used to be zone 4b. I sent in the collage of my front garden with the Ivy Heart with pink Impatiens. 💗💚💗Christine N.

[@gardeningTLC]

Wonderful!

[@CB-du6zf]

The weeping Norway spruce with the upturned arms can be redirected but securing weights to the branches to train it to grow downward. I too wouldn’t prune it. Good luck! Michelle I sooo enjoy your channel. I’ve learned so much from you. Great music too.

[@gardeningTLC]

Oh great advice

[@ScaredOfPlasticBags]

Thank you so much for the advice!! ❤ I'm going to hang rocks in macrame hangings to weigh down both tall branches. I'll have to keep them there for over a year I'm guessing. Brilliant.

[@ScaredOfPlasticBags]

​@@gardeningTLCThanks for including my photo in your video. Weighing down the branches is a brilliant idea and I'm totally getting on a ladder tomorrow to get it done. ❤

[@jennifergreene8891]

That barn and story 😍 to be able to find all the historic pieces and tools etc. What a wonderful place. And that Weeping Norway Spruce is so amazing and gorgeous 😍😊

[@lindahall1971]

❤ Ty Michelle ❤

[@darlas4019]

Fantastic photos and always enjoy your energy and personality Michelle! ❤❤❤

[@globexgurl2907]

Always a great time hanging out with you, thanks Michelle!

[@gardeningTLC]

Any time!

[@RHFactorat]

Interesting to see how plants are faring in different places. You always make it easier to construe.

[@terrypauloregon]

The spirit bear ranch picture is beautiful. I just recently traveled through that area. It’s absolutely beautiful and I love the flowers in this foreground.

[@bonniecarlstrom6014]

I sooooo enjoy these presentatios!! 🇺🇸🙏 Remember to VOTE your faith in 16 days. 🙏🇺🇸. ❤USA

[@cf-bloom3112]

Not the platform for politics...its gardening...dont care if it's religiously natured, or yours, mine, our love of the USA...I believe this channel is about an encompassing love of gardening...

[@andreaa3385]

Love seeing all the different garden pictures! So pretty! Thank you!

[@gardeningTLC]

You are so welcome!

[@marilynmourdock3688]

I was so ready to ease up on garden maintenance, but we haven't had any rain in about 5 weeks since hurricane helene dumped 5 inches on us, and fall moisture is crucial. Still planting clearance plants though. Love garden gab!

[@GardenGirlOR]

You have so much knowledge and I appreciate it so much. About 18:31, you asked what the plant was on the left. I believe you mean the Red Banana. I used to have them and their very interesting plants. My neighbor from Hawaii would ask for leaves to cook with. They send out pups during the summer and a few times, I had a flower and bananas. The bananas never matured enough to eat.

[@gardeningTLC]

Cool

[@angieketcher5917]

I can't wait until I see your store decorated....

[@janettefisher256]

I’m already , ready for spring to see what you plant around your home 🏡

[@patriciakumar115]

Another fantastic Garden Gab! Thank you, Michelle.

[@gardeningTLC]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@jennifergreene8891]

Thank you Michelle for sharing all your knowledge with us 😊 And all the BEAUTIFUL photos... 😍

[@gardeningTLC]

Thanks for watching!

[@delossmcwilliams4458]

Wow! Michelle, thank you for your knowledge and enthusiasm for gardening, when will you write a book? Why? Because so many gardening books are so, well, didactic which makes for dry reading. Why does a gardener, beginner to master, love to garden in the first place? What are people searching for? (Other than having a photo of their garden featured on Garden Gab!😊). Anyway, perhaps the newsletter may provide the readers with an opportunity to explore this more esoteric aspect of gardening. Thank you for showing my humble photo from Spirit Bear Ranch, what an honor! DeLoss

[@michellerose6721]

I love the character/night tree! It would be a great conversation piece, so unusual. I might hang a face on it for Halloween!

[@dustyflats3832]

Yes to more color! We had only brown oak leaves and cedars-ehh! I’ve since added Blaze maples and redbuds (Flamethrower 🤩🥳). I have to check the name again on our maples as they are fire red-wonder if it’s the PH doing that? All I know is it’s really WOW when the evening sun hits it!🎉 We have to put wire cages around young trees as bucks rub horns around here. 😂😂😂I just made this comment and you mentioned this same problem from a viewer😂😂😂. I am so going to get some areas card boarded and barked for future planting. I planted the blackeyed Susan vine and it didn’t take off till almost frost and Always was crawling on the ground. I planted them in several different light situations and they didn’t like full sun, but definitely like growing into pole beans, maybe because it told them they were to climb not crawl😂. It just wouldn’t take off and I started them inside. I’m in WI and the viewer pic was from IA and they must have a bit longer growing season. I’m finding that we need a longer season with many flowers in Z5a. You have SO much to do and still find time to entertain and educate us🎉. It’s no wonder it took so long to get to the shed😂. All nice pics and ideas-Thank You!

[@Jpatmeadowbrook]

I ordered that book from my library😊

[@josweatt898]

Excellent Michelle and all the viewer photos too! Love your haircut. Went to my first floral Christmas Open House today with a friend! MS Z8.

[@gardeningTLC]

Wow. That is early. I resist as long as possible. We flip the store the last week in October

[@dustyflats3832]

@@gardeningTLCI prefer to see Christmas stuff later as many are too early and it takes the fizz out of the season for me.

[@dustyflats3832]

@@gardeningTLCI prefer to see Christmas stuff later as many are too early and it takes the fizz out of the season for me.

[@Jpatmeadowbrook]

You keep knocking on wood to keep those deer away. I have a herd hat comes from the adjacent open space(220 ac.). I use espoma starter fertilizer in my planter’s with elephant ears or growth. Good gab!

[@gardeningTLC]

Thanks

[@cf-bloom3112]

Also wanted to suggest getting a handheld sprayer for the she-shed, it will come in handy with other projects too...bah-leave- me!!!....you thought the battery operated clippers were handy...!😂...perhaps mentioning it could get you a sponser, or a freebie....... ;) ,idk, companies get influencers to feature products..

[@terrypauloregon]

There are two bushes in the left fore ground. First is a type of barberry and next to it very close is a Albelia. No tag on those. So I don’t know the variety. I can take a close up if you’d like.

[@gardeningTLC]

That is ok. Thanks

[@kellywilliams5112]

I have done nothing this year but battle pests, I lost $150 in plants in the spring, then again over the growing season, first it was pill bugs, then grubs and voles, then moles and squirrels and now I have a family of pack rats and rabbits, who are eating my newly planted hydrangea's,. I've spent a fortune on pest controls instead of plants, I'm not sure why this year pests have been so bad.... But I can't wait for the hard freeze, I'm disgusted and over it for this year.. lol

[@rosemarythyme6351]

Wow, I'd be done, too, Kelly! We put chicken wire around our new shrubs to protect them from critters, especially rabbits. I hear you can plant perennials and shrubs in chicken wire baskets underground for voles, gophers, etc.

[@kellywilliams5112]

@@rosemarythyme6351 I bought some of that wire mesh that goes around root balls before you plant from Amazon that has helped immensely with the root eaters, and Seven got rid of the bugs... but I had 5 squirrels that just had litters of 4 and now I have 25 squirrels that are just bulldozing threw everything including wire cages, leaving it exposed to the pack rats and rabbits, I really don't want to use poisons or traps.. but my flower gardens are being annihilated.. hopefully a winter of controls will give me better luck next spring.. 😔

[@gardeningTLC]

Oh my girls.....i feel for you

[@dustyflats3832]

Well…when we bought this place we had a field of gophers. We soon learned they couldn’t resist celery leaf on a rat trap and caught 50 the first year. I use Milky Spore on the yard (worked for about 10 years) and that took care of moles and Juicy Fruit gum in their tunnels-it works. We’ve only briefly seen One woodchuck and it’s gone somewhere. We have to fence EVERYTHING or we would have nothing. It’s horrible to have to view the landscape through 7’ fencing, but necessary and it’s not easy to work around as the deer use our property as a run to water. After over a decade and my whole life I have never had VOLES 🤬 till this year-they are the worst! They have voracious appetites especially for spring bulbs. Where they ever came from-they can Go Back! The trouble with them is there is too much to eat that they don’t look at peanut butter on traps. It worked in the spring as we caught Two in one rat trap at once and maybe because not much was growing yet. When you go out to the garden and see certain plants shaved down you know you have voles and their holes and above ground tunnels in snow. Maybe I can get rid of them this winter. Can’t use poison as it’s the veg garden and I don’t like using that anyway. And I agree with the high animal pressure this year and couldn’t understand it because we had a huge amount of rain all summer and it was worse than drought last year. I just need to get creative with fencing and choose larger sections to quarantine the landscape areas so I can work easier and enjoy the view better. 😂the ferrel cats didn’t like the poultry wire along property line as they bounced off it 😂😂. -It’s a battle!

[@merrytrujillo3229]

Great episode! Do you by chance know of a landscape architect in Dallas? I'm losing my front yard to shade. I'm not afraid of doing the work, I just don't have the eye for it. Thanks again!

[@gardeningTLC]

Not that I know of. Sorry

[@lindahall1971]

I emailed you some info on crocks❤

[@gardeningTLC]

I will check it out. Thank you

[@cf-bloom3112]

Im sorry, my comment was directed elsewhere not you Michelle...

[@janeevans1116]

I call it a banana 🍌🍌 tree

[@cf-bloom3112]

I dont think voting or any mentioning of your faith, whether its religious, or loving our country has ANYTHING to do with gardening....its not the platform i've subscribed to....

[@dustyflats3832]

We are all wishing our life away right now wishing it was OVER! Thankfully Michelle has the commercials turned off that I wasn’t Blasted by the ad nauseum topic. I’m literally stressing and sick of it and can’t escape it-nobody can.