Gardening for Introverts 🤣🌱- The garden after 6 weeks with no maintenance

[@marshawilliamson8602]

Your elation at Holly’s success in finding her way through the “jungle” is everything. 🌸🐝

[@bethheerten1132]

We enjoyed your trip. Thanks for taking us along.

[@daymoonfarm2903]

As an introvert, I appreciate all your gardening advice!

[@yaindyroque12]

You did it Holly!! That was so sweet. The garden looks amazing even when it’s overgrown 😊

[@trace9657]

I appreciate that you are willing to show imperfections in your garden space. I can think, "well if Jim is debating with his lantana, then I have nothing to be ashamed of.

[@trishferrer8209]

Holly is so precious! ❤❤❤ She did it! Because of your encouragement.

[@vbachman6742]

I can feel the humidity through the camera today. There's nothing like Southern air (floating wayer) after days of rain. West Tennessee had a solid 5 days of rain on the edge of Francine.

[@athena03000]

I love it when the garden looks like the plants are about to take over! Gorgeous. 🌱💐🌾

[@BotanicAlley]

Jim's "overgrown" garden is still in better shape than 95% of most gardener's 😅

[@trishferrer8209]

YES!😂 wayy better than mine. But, to be fair to myself, I'm trying to make my 3.3 acres look like his much smaller lot.

[@BotanicAlley]

@@trishferrer8209 wow, yeah, that's a great size difference! lol

[@upnorth21]

it's great that you can enjoy the love of gardening, have a garden tour and take off and enjoy travel! We appreciate all the content you bring us!

[@rnguyen2516]

Omg Jim you are so funny. When I saw the title I thought you meant low-maintenance gardening for those who don’t like to go outside to garden and see people (that’s me), lol. Holly has some pep in her step!

[@GardeningSpirit]

ha ha ... I can relate!

[@ContactsNfilters]

Right. I just spent over an hour looking for what you just described. 😂 I like being outside until it gets too noisy, bright, or just people-y.

[@rnguyen2516]

@@ContactsNfilters so true 😂! As soon as a passerby or car stops, I know my gardening tasks will have to come to an end that day 😩. I unfortunately live on a main thoroughfare, too (entry/exit out of the neighborhood).

[@TheImpatientGardener]

That coleus (celosia 😉) is stunning!

[@PatriciaNanAnderson]

Jim is definitely not an introvert, so it's nice he thought of us quiet, self-contained types! 🤣

[@thefitzs]

I really enjoyed this one! Holy cow that Alabama Sunset Coleus!! Great balls of fire!!

[@ramgiberson7180]

Hello 🙏. Mr Jim putnam and Stephany .happy gardening. ❤❤.

[@erincolleen7436]

Thanks Jim and Steph! What a difference rain makes. Can’t wait to see you trim the bites. Every time we get a strong wind, branches break on ours. I am thinking about cutting it back hard and letting it start over. 🤷‍♀️

[@heatherw.2751]

You had me cracking up in this video!!! Sweet Holly getting stuck was cute! Welcome home!!! 🙂

[@myredrose45]

I'm working on my introvert garden 😂😂, love you guys so much. Thanks for educating us.

[@gracefulgrowing144]

I'm glad y'all were able to take time away and enjoy your trip and showing us some beautifulplaces.I think your garden looks exceptionally healthy and happy.❤❤

[@staylor6913]

OMG! I want your yard! 😂😂😂

[@frandavis8687]

Thanks for showing your garden in a state of tattiness, as many of our gardens are now after that tough drought followed by 3 days of slow rain we have had in Upstate SC. I can't wait to get out there and tear out the old bedraggled summer garden, mulch the ground, and see the bones again. Your morning looks just like ours here: in a cloud! Imma check my Queen Charlotte and see if it has blooms.

[@susanaustin6353]

Yes. Show us the after of your garden.

[@frazercollins9559]

Jim, maybe the EOC Dogwood is under a little stress because of the pruning from earlier in the year, so it's trying to flower again.

[@tarawatterson4188]

Fireworks row is stunning 😍

[@glendapeters8899]

That agave caught my eye! Just beautiful!

[@awildapproach]

I personally love a full lush garden that is hidden away, as an introvert myself! 😂

[@kimwilliamson7880]

Looks fantastic! You could start a trend.

[@lysianepruitt6429]

My Empress of China dogwood is also reblooming

[@judymckerrow6720]

Thank you Jim and Stephany. 🌺💚🙃

[@marionallen2222]

That’s so funny bc my white vincas decided to come up in the middle of my walkway 🤣🤣🤣

[@jeanninemorgan3526]

Love the Introvert Garden

[@GardeningSpirit]

LOL love the thumbnail! I am so glad to hear that other gardeners do this too. We rented our house & left garden this year for 7 weeks and I always felt that I was alone in being that kind of gardener. I miss my garden yes but I also do enjoy the prospective I gain whilst coming back from such a long absence. But the growth is crazy right!!? PS- You inspired me to go and do the highline in NYC since I live so close.

[@Gardengirl333]

My Ann Magnolia has buds 😮in September, zone 9 Texas. Jim, thanks for sharing your overgrown garden 😊.

[@mitzi605]

Holly was so sweet, so careful with the plants

[@Adina7223]

The dogwood is welcoming you home. Glad you are back home.

[@loriledner6528]

Wow !! What a wonderful welcome home ❤

[@HoosierDaddy_]

Loved the trip. The garden is great. The dogwood thing is strange. Speaking of strange, here in 6a Indy, we have had no rain for 90 days and temps are still stuck at 90 plus at the end of Sept! Yard grass is dead, corn is only 4 feet high. Yet I have Iceland poppies and Columbine blooming??!! I've never seen a stranger year. Thanks to Jim's soil method, I haven't lost anything. No fertilizer, not much supplimental watering and the weirdest things are blooming and reblooming!

[@katiekane5247]

After a few years with the beautiful salmon pink Summer Jewels I'm even more impressed with the red. This is the best time for so many Salvia, it's a hummingbird buffet! I collect seed from the Summer Jewels but a lot comes up by itself. I've got Torenia still popping up too, love my freebies 😊 The stand of self seeded Swamp Sunflower is just starting to open and several varieties of Solidago are still going. You've created an amazing garden!

[@dylan8285]

The dogwood is just extra happy with all the moisture. The eastern snowball shrubs will spit flowers here and there if we have a wet summer

[@jomassey4207]

Love the natural healthy growth that has happened in a short time.😊

[@jennifergreene8891]

Hi Jim and Stephanie. Welcome home 😁😂🤣😂 Just as good as having a guard dog 😂 Sweet Holly 🥰 Did Griffin plow on through? 😊 That Coleus is STUNNING 😍 The garden does look beautiful 😍 Thank you for sharing 😊

[@terrysevold2072]

So Fun 🎉 Thanks for the show and the Laffs!🤣 Welcome Home! Holly was super cute. 🐕❤

[@cece_marie]

Welcome home! 🍂 Had to watch the telecom people try to navigate my yard this week 😬😆

[@cheevue668]

Jim, I really enjoy your good nature! I also love this video bc well, that’s life 😂

[@katherinecornette5315]

So many things to love about your introvert garden! Looking forward to some fall weather. If you decide to dig up the anemones and get rid of them, I’d happily take some and use them in Wake Forest’s historical garden. We are looking for plants that will fill in and choke out weeds.

[@paulalougee3202]

Thankful you are home. Also, thankful for all the beautiful sights and knowledge you shared. Your home garden possibly was just as happy to have a vacation and look a tad wild🤣. As always, looking forward to the next video. Welcome home!

[@josephhollandsworth1255]

All the introvert jokes are very amusing. I'm enjoying this video a lot! I'm sure it's nice to be home though. I always come home and check on my plants, as if they were children left behind on vacation.

[@nicolejenkins-bauer2707]

It’s amazing what water can do! We are having a drought in Ohio and plants are coming to their end for the season.😢

[@myredrose45]

OMG, when you said you can't get out, I thought of Jim's alcatraz. 😂😂😂

[@begrace4862]

My Empress of China dogwood is also strangely re-blooming here in zone 8a Arkansas!

[@FrediOlson]

That was fun! Was someone able to get to the containers to water them? Love that coleus. I have already started to root my cuttings to over winter. VA Z7b. Thanks, Jim!

[@jbstoudenmire191]

I have a Japanese magnolia that started to bloom this week (instead of it’s usual Jan/Feb blooming). Southwest Georgia here.

[@shadedfromreality]

lol! Great title! Your yard still looks amazing!!

[@taylorswf23]

You know what, this makes me actually excited to have a baby this December- the dead of winter. Most of the garden will be dormant and shouldn’t do …. This 😂 during my recovery period.

[@sheryllafferty2255]

Great video! Love the humor too. 😊

[@juliabinford6500]

It seems like every year a different plant will decide to live on the edge, and bloom at the wrong time. A couple of years ago, my hellebores bloomed in October. They went back to usual after that. It keeps life interesting.

[@BarryHull]

Holly made it!! 🙂

[@HoustonKeith72]

I am definitely an introvert. My HOA is always telling me I need to remove plants from blocking my front porch. Hahaha! Not gonna happen. It’s there for a reason. 😊

[@theleefamily6446]

Interesting about the dogwood. We went to Riverbanks zoo in Columbia last week and I noticed a dogwood full of flowers and wondered what was going on with it.

[@MickF04]

I panicked this year because the bumblebees were late in arriving to the garden. Last year, it was mid-May. This year, early July. As such, I didn't prune back our Mystic Spires Blue Salvia because I didn't want to lose the bumblebees. Well, now we're paying the cost with Mystics overrunning the Nandina, Lantana, and butterfly bushes. But we still have the bumblebees! :)

[@rrman2party]

Wondering if when your garden is overgrown like that do you have any concerns about rattlesnakes? Here in Jax, FL zone 9b we seem to get the same rain you do a day or two before it gets to you, and our garden is CRAZY overgrown as well. Haven't seen a rattlesnake on the property in at least 5 years but we know they are here. Made me nervous watching Holly, Stephanie, and you walking around out there today. Did you run an air blower before making the video to chase any snakes out from under the plants? I know this was shot at 7'ish in the am so I am imagining you didn't. What, if any, steps do you take to mitigate snake danger in the garden?

[@jeanniecollier6763]

Durham, NC zone 8A: I have been sick almost the whole year with the exception of 2 weeks which included the day I went to tour your garden. Weeds have taken over and people stop by and ask me about some of the flowers-which happen to be weeds, LOL! I spent a lot of money on plants, yet the weeds have the prettiest flowers. UGH!! My weeping cherry tree lost all its leaves early and it is flowering again. This has definitely been a weird gardening year.

[@MelodyHopkins]

Jim, I planted a small caryopteris (Beyond Midnight) last fall and it bloomed here in 9a in May. Now it is blooming again. This has been a strange growing season.

[@kso808]

I was waiting on a video like this, after your trip! 🤣. Seriously, your yard looks great. I also experienced a lone flower on my new kousa ‘Scarlet Fire’ dogwood several weeks ago. Maybe confused by these recent autumn-like stretches of weather?

[@mperry2906]

Makes me want to plant a few hundred more plants and then leave :-)

[@valhallamcgaughey3720]

You are hilarious! We love seeing your personality. I’m jealous of this garden; we had to leave home for 4 weeks in august and while we were gone there was 0 rainfall AT ALL and temps were up in the hundreds everyday. Everything was dead. (Except the plants I paid my neighbor to water 😊) The spurge even looked dead but it recovered faster than our lawn so now it has taken over.

[@CeresIsABetterPlanetThanPluto]

Lots of the hydrangeas and redbuds around Duke started changing color super early this year because of a random dip into the 50's that happened for a few nights in a row at the end of August -- I wonder if it confused your dogwood into thinking it went through a brief "winter"

[@karlalitakismet]

Would you mind sharing the name of that tall, orange ginger? I’m in 9A and have some space in the back of my garden and I think that would be fabulous there. Thanks for everything you do, love your channel!

[@ordiekelleher2641]

Jim you needed machetes!😊 huggicates!😊

[@thomasnoble1816]

The local deer herd has a regular rotation through our area. Recently, they ate a 7’ tall boneset with multiple 1” stems to the ground overnight.

[@dwohio8283]

I was gone 4 days, came home and picked 30 cucs from my 2 plants. Anyone want cucumbers.😅

[@lrothweiler]

My grandfather was a mail carrier for the US Postal Service from his youth through retirement. I know the federal government has a value limit on gifts mail carriers may accept; you may want to find out what the current limit is, and give your carrier a special gift for his or her efforts while you were away. Thanks for the fun video!

[@stephanycoakley7352]

We, fortunately, cancelled our mail. Phew! Would have definitely been a big pain for our carrier!

[@8helenjhouston8]

The Solidago has become your new Lorapetulum! Maybe the Chinese Dogwood is responding to the pruning that you did earlier in the year?

[@amyjones2490]

My lilac is strangely flowering here in September. Weird weather and the farmers spray is causing our plants to do odd things.

[@nadia_rem8511]

Some of my bulbs are pushing foilage! Im scratching my head trying to recall if they come up this early. I believe its muscari and crocus. 7b/8a MD and we havent had a good rain in a while. I know cause the aphids are all over my lilies and my crepe myrtle. The clip with Holly jumping through the garden was very sweet. I too notice that trees covered with lichen seem to be sick and declining.

[@GerRafferty]

Me a bit of intravert this is great vid jim 😊🤗

[@donnajoy6951]

Still an amazing garden “ no fertilizer” 😊

[@kaychaney6102]

I just love the lushness and so glad you shared it. Question…you’ve said many times there is only one area for your vegetables that need a lot of sun; yet when I research many of your annuals like the summer jewels salvia it says they need full sun, but they are growing beautifully in your front yard. What am I missing?

[@andydzieciaszek586]

Jim, do you think that the prune you did on the Empress of china might have spurred the reflowering?

[@lauriebrown4196]

? Hi! No place like home! The ginger! My question is do you leave it outside all winter? Do you have to cut it back? I have a variegated ginger in a pot on the deck, here in Charlotte. Would love to plant in ground, if it can remain outside?

[@L4sleeko]

LoL, I was wondering about that maintenance . . . 😁 Say, @4:27 I spot Minaret Daylily no?

[@stephanycoakley7352]

yes

[@Mindy-s-channel]

oh my gosh is that the service berry tree you planted 3 years ago? by the porch? It sure grew fast. I'm thinking about getting one for my back yard.

[@theleefamily6446]

I need you guys to come help me in my yard. I’m in the Upstate whenever you’re in the area. I would gladly pay for your expertise!

[@kathrynnorrisctmltbsascp2913]

Talk to us about “soil improvement “. Inquiring minds want to know. 😊

[@terrivance8750]

Jim, Steph, Did ya'all buy the Alabama Sunset coleus as a plant or seed? Thank you. 😊

[@paulap5578]

How about showing us how you cleaned it up.

[@jeromegagnon8335]

Hello Jim You talk about a plant at around 12 minutes and 55 seconds in the video that was givent to you by a botanical garden. I was wondering what it was. In the transprict it’s spelled “Hboa”, and I can’t find anything under that name. Thanks for your help and God bless

[@alanerpington5698]

"Hemiboea" is the correct spelling.

[@HoustonKeith72]

Your veggie garden looks like Peter Rabbit lives there! Haha!

[@HoustonKeith72]

Hey Jim. Question I’ve been losing sleep over. I know you don’t really grow them, but I’ve tried roses this year. Here in Houston 9b the thrips have darn near broken my heart with the damage they’ve caused. I have resisted spraying because I want to create a space friendly for pollinators. I have a lot of pollinator plants also. What’s your opinion on systemics v spraying for a rose bush? Like a drench. Does that help isolate the negative impact? Trying to figure out some way to make it work.

[@tOmMarzig]

The reblooming dogwood is an oddity. Currently my rhododendron are threatening to rebloom 😬. Expected frost is 40 days away.

[@Flower_hoarder]

🌸🥰🌸

[@kaylynnlitersky2342]

Is the dogwood trying to bloom because you pruned it?

[@margaretbirkemose5208]

What do you do with okra?

[@jaqmackie]

😂💚

[@karengilson224]

This was so funny! We live outside of Charleston SC and go away for most of the summer. We have someone who mows the grass and trims the hedge surrounding the yard, but for the most part the garden runs wild. We always joke about what we’re going to see when we get back - some years we have walked into an absolute jungle, with hummingbird moths flying across the path pollinating the gingers. It takes us a while to tame it all down, but it’s really cool to see how quickly nature can take over!

[@ContactsNfilters]

How do i stop city code enforcement from stopping by? 😭

[@قناةطبخالمغربيالاصيل]

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[@slane_design]

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[@sterlgirlceline]

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[@persimmonpuddin]

My gardenias rebloomed recently - never happened before - Charlotte NC