How To Trim Hellebores & Adding Whimsical Garden Art

[@ashleyeme]

Love it! Here’s some super cute/random info for today: a group of butterflies can be called a “flutter”❣️ But my favorite is a term used for a group of hummingbirds…they’re called a “shimmer” 🥰

[@KarenDGobsmacked]

Learned something new today and butterflies and hummingbirds are my favorites!!

[@cece_marie]

Those butterflies are SO cute!!! Yes a collection of flowers in the negative space is a great idea.... Took an idea from Mimi and placed some stumps and logs in strategic places, instant 'art' and habitat too.

[@GardeningwithCreekside]

I’ve already started looking for them!!!

[@roveenlyoder605]

A group of butterflies is officially called a kaleidoscope.

[@pattieb8214]

I love seeing Brynna in all your episodes. It's so funny sometimes to watch her expressions. I think she's wondering why her Mama is talking to that little black box again. 😄

[@marilynmourdock3688]

And Brynna is there to show us how beautifully she is marked. She is so helpful!

[@juliabinford6500]

Those butterflies are a great addition. My hellebores mirror my own feelings when things get frosty. They fall out when it’s too cold, and perk back up when temps rise.

[@MyBackyardScience]

It looks like you've learned well from your Mom with the whimsical garden art! It really make the area bright and cheerful! I liked that mushroom character by your hellebores, too! 🙂

[@GardeningwithCreekside]

Thank you so much!

[@kaylac3367]

I like the idea of adding flowers to the wall. Then, you have a nice little slab there to add some creativity to. Fun area. 😊

[@GardeningwithCreekside]

Thank you! 😊

[@nancypatterson374]

I love garden art and I am a huge lover of Birds. A garden is more than just trees and flowers. Love the butterflies and seeing Miss Brynna, stay warm everyone in the brutal cold! ❤

[@patriceg1100]

I need to trim my hellebore, but they are covered in snow, buds, old leaves and all!!! Next week!!! Maybe

[@user-cp5ht1th6i]

Those butterflies are so cute I’m thinking how to add to my garden.

[@marthaunderwood1697]

Just sitting here in Alabama watching my bird feeder and looking at your video today. Can't wait to get my plants that I ordered from you. I also remember the days that my family had greenhouses. Good times and good memories!

[@kimgaivin9208]

Couldn’t resist had to go order some butterflies for my garden shed. Hubby is building a trellis for it for me to grow a climbing hydrangea. These should add the perfect touch.

[@GardeningwithCreekside]

That is awesome!

[@lynnthorson1349]

Please consider including long-sleeved T-shirts in your merchandise collection! Love the butterflies!

[@lizkrenzer8592]

Love the butterflies and YES add flowers would complete your design.

[@pcrice-lr2dn]

Can’t wait to get out and do some clean up but tonight Rain ,sleet and snow tomorrow 0 degrees for a low but next week……..In the high 60 after snow here in East Tennessee this week,as they say THIS TOO SHALL PAST. 🤣🤣🤣 I am in love with your butterflies 🦋

[@Teena-yi9xw]

Bright and fun yard art ! Great and whimsical hint of color !

[@christycoalson36]

I love those little butterflies they are so cute 😊 until you find the metal flowers maybe try a potted flowering tree on the concrete pad this spring 🤔 that'd be adorable 🥰 have a wonderful day everybody

[@linakhoury6623]

Hi Jenny 🌺. Very cool video . Your trim for hellebores looks amazing and these butterflies added beautty to the wall and to this area. I lovet . The art yard collection in your mothe's garden are so beautiful . Have agreat day. 🌺🌻🌺

[@JuneSaunders-hr4sh]

Flowers would be great! I have metal flowers, and the butterflies would be a great addition to my garden! Great idea.

[@sallythompson2635]

A group of butterflies is called a Kaleidoscope 😊

[@salimorton641]

Those butterflies are so fun! I like the idea of flowers too. I think I am a big fan of Brenna. She is so attractive and keeping an eye out for anything that might attack you. She is looking up and around constantly. Protecting her person! ❤😊

[@DebzZi]

Ive got 2 big rusted metal gecko's on the wall to my side garden....love them. A trio of nice sized metal daisies would look stunning!

[@HandcraftedintheFoothills]

I got one of those waste bins for Christmas 😊

[@janeparker7150]

I love the butterflies and flowers would be perfect.🌺🌺

[@patrickboylan5514]

A group of butterflies is called a kaleidoscope ❤

[@noradunlap7539]

Thanks for the great information on trimming the hellebores! Love the Butterflies! Blessings!💙💙🙏🙏

[@barbarabranstetter1784]

Love the butterflies on the shed Jenny! 💚

[@user-yp2tl8rc7t]

I agree Jenny with the big flowers on the other side of the butterflies.

[@PeggyMills]

Thank you, Jenny. I did not know to do this to my hellebores. Love the butterflies. I think yes to the rusty flowers. You need a bench below them on the pad. I love yard art too , especially rusty things like lanterns and milk cans.

[@maureengee364]

Nice clean up and cute butterflies. Yep - 29 Celsius and windchill of - 40 this morning. 🥶🥶🥶 We’re supposed to warm up next week. Thank you so very much for sharing this with us.🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦

[@stacey8923]

Thank you for sharing this. Right after your video, I went and trimmed mine up. I love seeing these special flowers all through the coldest days of winter. I’m in zone 7B.

[@GardeningwithCreekside]

Glad it was helpful!

[@QueenAyeee]

Those butterflies are adorable. The tree leaves can go.I like my flower beds free of them. Have a nice day Jenny.

[@GardeningwithCreekside]

Thank you! You too!

[@marilynbaldwin2934]

Jenny you are such a joy to watch so happy in everything you do! Im dreaming of planting and what i want to plant ! Tomorrow is Friday another snowstorm coming in Pennsylvania and temperatures in the teens! Its winter after all!!

[@dottiebruce9555]

I love my garden “art”-pieces of old logs full of character, metal sculptures, birdhouses, wind chimes! And.. I just ordered a set of those rusted butterflies to wrap around a tree along the lower garden path! If you ever come to Cashiers, I would love for you to visit my garden. Thanks for all the good information and inspiration!

[@jeanbenton6264]

Your hellebores are beautiful! Love the butterfly art- and learned something new as many of us did- a kaleidoscope - just love that name!!

[@jgwood10]

Jenny I was curious when you said what is a group of butterflies called. Google said it’s called a kaleidoscope. I love that! It sounds amazing. They look so good on the shed.

[@karenmiller5543]

Haha I did the same thing. I was curious too.

[@sharoncoon5439]

Good morning all!

[@dianequist835]

I LOVE that you are putting in the immediate link to tools and items used! Gosh, that's wonderful! Thank you!

[@GardeningwithCreekside]

You are so welcome!

[@blk123]

Love adding the big flowers to the shed. I love whimsy in the garden.

[@amydeeds6248]

I love Unique Stone-when we visit NC in April I plan on stopping by to shop! 😊

[@aliceelbradey6278]

I absolutely love the butterfly’s thanks for sharing ❤❤❤

[@user-on1ez8hi2j]

I have grown hellebores for years. I love the foliage as well as the flowers. I am not sure why you would cut those leaves away, especially the variegated ones! I can see the flowers just fine. Mine have re-seeded under my canopy of trees and make a beautiful ground cover. I am in 8a also.

[@dmbalsam]

In our townhouse garden, I had 2 turtles. They solved my slug problem.😊

[@GardeningwithCreekside]

Lucky you!!!

[@patricialucinda2506]

you can use flood penetrol to keep the rust level at the level it is the day you installed. Excellent product for yard art that you want to "freeze" the level of rust.

[@GardeningwithCreekside]

Thanks for the tip!

[@tinam9844]

Lol Ms. B .... what Mom no pots today😂. Thank you so much Jenny for sharing how you take care of these. I bought a bunch for my shade garden last year, just so I can have some pretty winter colors. I am going to get more now, lol. Love the garden art display, what a great idea!

[@juliafiore120]

Good morning, Jenny☕️Those butterflies are adorable 😍 Up here in Boston it is freezing!🥶 Got my seed catalog from Johnny’s, a cup of coffee and I’m ready to start planning. Unique Stone delivery would be nice!😆. Have a Blessed Day 😊🐶

[@GardeningwithCreekside]

Oh you’re going to have such a fun morning❣️

[@beckyscheller9358]

You could make flowers out of old faucet handles. I agree the pad is begging for chairs and cute sitting area.

[@Cynthia-zz1vi]

Thanks for sharing the seller of butterflies I have an area that I’m thinking I need to purchase some ❤ Rust, the area you cleaned up looks great, the flowers prob are gonna be nice and full so fast

[@cathyhatfield5340]

Love love love the butterflies! 😎❤️❤️❤️

[@GlendasTexasGarden]

Some big, tall sunflowers would look good with those butterflies.

[@StevenScone]

I'm in north Alabama. We have been covered in ice for the last 3 days. I'm hoping I don't have to much damage to my garden. It's supposed to warm up and rain today, then we have 3 more days of cold nights. Most of my plants are cold hardy, so they hopefully they will be good.

[@HandcraftedintheFoothills]

Same boat in East TN

[@helenaddington1672]

Your gardens are beautiful Jenny, but then you are a pro. I love my hellobores, right now they are buried under 7" of snow. Don't to much trust the new zone rating by the USDA. They moved us from a 6b to a 7, and right now we have negative temps. We are in a arctic blast for a week now. While the snow cover does help, these temps will kill most zone 7 plants. The butterflies are so cute.

[@kathy5216]

20” of snow on mine!

[@pattybridges4514]

Love love love your butterflies!

[@peggy-ann1961]

Love the butterflies and yes rusted flowers would be awesome. I just read from a commenter that a group of butterflies is a kaleidoscope. I found out last year a group of ladybugs is called a Loveliness…awesome names eh? ( had to add the eh 😆) ❄️🇨🇦❄️

[@anitanapier8591]

The first thing I thought was you need some metal flowers (Hobby Lobby) in that upper corner for the butterflies to flock to!

[@pamulapowell3951]

Love the Butterflys 🦋🦋

[@kathy5216]

Thanks! I had no idea I had to cut those leaves since they are still green! I have 3 or 4 of them now!

[@alisonmills5877]

We got 8 in of snow in Hinsdale NH and then 9 degree temps. Love those butterflies you put up.

[@fraukeg.facchini2691]

Yes, try to find some flowers for that corner, that would be perfect!

[@annelarson160]

How fun is this! A group of butterflies is called a KALEIDOSCOPE! Love how you created a fun background for your future garden shed! Also, am a long time fan of Felco pruners! I love the #7--right handed with a rotating handle that helps increase my mechanical advantage with my arthritic hand! Thanks for keeping it interesting over the winter! :)

[@peggy-ann1961]

Wow, what an awesome name for such a group! Thank you for that! Did you know a group of ladybugs was called a Lovliness? How cool! 🇨🇦❄️🇨🇦

[@leanngarner8520]

Love the butterflies! I think large flowers would be great too. I wish I could grow Hellebores here in zone 9b. It is too hot and humid in the summer for them. At least that is my experience. But I can admire yours!

[@raine2011]

Oh my.... i just visited their web site. You're not kidding, They look like they have some beautiful pieces. Good thing I'm in Indiana.😅

[@TonyaA7]

Those are so cute. I need to get me some garden art. Jenny that would be super cute the butterflies going to flowers. Temps dropped to 20 here in South Louisiana and my Dahlia plants got fried,so I'm gonna go trim that back either today or tomorrow... Some other plants that got hit im just gonna leave them alone til spring.

[@eddye7764]

When this video started I was wondering what the little shed in the background was used for! Those butterflies are so cute! And I was thinking the same thing about adding tall flowers in the back space!! Great minds!! 😃

[@alice_rabbit8345]

I have 3 hellebores, I may have to add another one or two!

[@Shari-lq8rb]

In Texas zone 8a - we have received artic blast weather. Hope my Oak leaf hydrangeas make it. Appreciate your commentary on hellebores and how to attach butterflies to wood.

[@taylorswf23]

My oak leaf came through last year’s -4 beautifully.

[@zeniazenia2787]

Lent starts February 14. Ash Wednesday

[@BirdieSeven]

With age(just turned 65), I look for ANY way to make gardening more comfortable. A good little helper when sitting on the ground clipping such as monkey grass or hellebores, is to have the lid of my lined trash can, next to me to put clippings into, instead of having to raise all the way to the top of the can to drop them in. When the lid is full, I can stand up and empty it into the lined trash can. It really does save my shoulders.

[@amandagoodrich1035]

It's been single digits with a wind chill of negative double digits for the last week. It just warmed up to 21 degrees today, and I felt so warm i took off my coat to walk from my car into work this morning lol. cold is so relative. 30 degrees in fall feels so much colder than 30 degrees in late winter/early spring.

[@ALBERTSINCLAIR-p8i]

The door needs some color. I’m partial to yellow, but the color of your roof would be nice love the butterflies and good luck finding the flowers!

[@alison41380]

My tool belt was delivered yesterday that I ordered from y'all. I'm happy to have one now. I always have several tools on me and my phone when I need to document plants, etc. And I may or may not have lost a pair of Felco's in 2022 while gardening because I laid them down or set them somewhere and never found them. Yikes. Haha. I have since replaced them.

[@GardeningwithCreekside]

So glad it arrived safely! And let’s be honest, we ALL have lost garden tools before 😉

[@bettyharvath5217]

Watching from Delaware.

[@GardeningwithCreekside]

Morning!

[@lonaphillips9617]

I would like some real taller potted evergreens on the blank space left. Maybe in various heights!

[@GardeningwithCreekside]

I like that idea!!!!!!

[@kathibrowneyes6222]

Try the websight called RUSTY BIRDS. its in WASHINGTON state. Lots of different yard art, maybe something will be just right for you. ❤

[@GardeningwithCreekside]

What a great website! This could be a dangerous recommendation😉

[@Missgardenista]

You should put a sign call “ the. Garden shed!” Lol!!

[@ronhewitt8678]

A group of butterflies is called a FLIGHT OR FLUTTER.

[@GardeningwithCreekside]

Thank you❣️

[@gillianmuspic2337]

it is a flutter or a kaleidoscope of butterflies

[@ptwnleo]

A group of butterflies is called a Kaleidoscope

[@njyo8135]

I'm so glad I saw that video because I had no idea to cut off leaves! I just did and now my Lenten Rose's can shine their beauty!! Do you cut back snapdragons!

[@waureenkyriacou5056]

so , I checked for you , and a bunch of butterflies can be called a "swarm or a rabble " but my favorite is a " Kaleidoscope " because of all the colours

[@tomcassidy3377]

A group of butterflies can be called a swarm but that seems boring. They can also be called a flutter of butterflies or if they are particularly colorful, a kaleidoscope. I think these both much more fitting descriptions.

[@jenniferwolford4646]

I wonder if you'll get rust drip lines going down your wall after a time? Maybe, if you just barely screwed them in a little to hold them, but not against the wall? Then they are juat floating and not as much of a risk of the rust staining your wall?? They are so darn cute!!

[@GlendasTexasGarden]

I love your little stone mushroom in the garden, do ya'll sale those online?

[@GardeningwithCreekside]

We sure do! We just recently added a few pieces of Unique Stone to the webiste with more coming soon! bit.ly/3HsfSqb

[@barbarasellitti4406]

So you pretty much removed all the leaves from the hellebore & just kept the new growth? These are new plants for me, didn’t know I should trim them. Here in Virginia Beach I have a few that I see blooms on all year! Love the garden art & I agree with putting big flowers on the wall 👍

[@GardeningwithCreekside]

That is correct!

[@terrivance8750]

Jenny, Right (camera view) of the 1st Hellebore you trimmed--is that a Spike Moss or an Autumn fern? Is the large fern behind you a Christmas fern?

[@GardeningwithCreekside]

Spikemoss for the first and ‘Brilliance’ autumn fern for the second

[@barbaracarlson1331]

Love that toadstool in the garden. Do you sell those?

[@dianequist835]

A kaleidoscope (large number of butterflies)

[@jordanyeager9220]

I was the one who asked about the shed lol. ASK JENNY: Zone 8a milton, Florida. We had a 14-degree night, my hostas & amaryllis foliage have melted. the hostas will recover, but the amaryllis? (All in-ground) should I cut their melted foliage to the ground?

[@kathysmith3729]

What is the large fern in the background? Also could you show how you prune/maintain the anise shrub in the future? If you’ve already done one could you please let me know which episode. Thank you!

[@GardeningwithCreekside]

Those are 'Brilliance' autumn ferns, and I talk about pruning Floriday Sunshines in this video kzbin.info/www/bejne/d37WfqZqjbp-eLMsi=DJQR-HtYqWc_uHwu

[@laurenwellman2516]

Good morning Jenny. Great info. I tend to leave my hellebore leaves on because they are mostly under snow right now here in western MA 😂. I know you don’t have that issue, and I would probably do what you do too if I lived in NC ☺️. Have you had luck transplanting and moving hellebores? Any tips or tricks? I want to move some of mine to a different part of my garden ❤❤

[@GardeningwithCreekside]

They transplant beautifully!!! Just sign the whole thing up and move to where you want them. I would wait until they finish blooming.

[@laurenwellman2516]

@@GardeningwithCreekside thank you!

[@jenniferstover1812]

Hi Jenny, I was curious if you would suggest any protection for rose trees during the winter for 6b and 7a zones,? Thanks for all that you teach us!

[@jenniferwolford4646]

I did this once in the winter, and the fresh foliage wilted horribly and didn't recover well. Now I just trim after the bloom in the spring.

[@jenniferwolford4646]

I do live in Northern Utah, though. Colder zone and much more snow.

[@kaylynnlitersky2342]

A group of butterflies is called a flutter

[@GardeningwithCreekside]

Thank you❣️

[@Teriberi12345]

A group of butterflies is called a kaleidoscope. How pretty is that?

[@sherryschaefer966]

Google says a bunch of butterflies is officially called a kaleidoscope.

[@sharonecker1267]

I’m in WA state and the deer just love my hellebores so I just removed the plants, the flowers never got to completely open.

[@sherrikeir-lg7zt]

Great info....but, do you trim the ones that are naturalizing in the woods?

[@GardeningwithCreekside]

I personally don’t (it’s a time issue for me), but you certainly can!

[@brendapreston2417]

Jenny what type of fern was that where you trimmed your first Hibo

[@karencarlyle9158]

Brynna calls the a kaleidoscope

[@rhelton7720]

I find it so hard mentally to trim my hellebores. It's so hard to get things to grow in my yard with my white clay base and lots of shade that anything green is a blessing! I'm in NC and will my hellebores be better off if I trim them up or can I just leave them?