July Garden Tour. Hydrangeas, yarrow, hibiscus and more!

[@barbthreinen2628]

Beautiful! Love the window shed in the back round.

[@letsgrow260]

@@barbthreinen2628 …my greenhouse???!! Hahaha…. Thank you for your sweet comment ❤️

[@famoutax]

I love your gardens, I started out with day lilies too as it was cheap and split them so many times. It is just not easy to kill them 😂. I’m in look out for that gorgeous spirea. Sending much love your way.

[@letsgrow260]

@@famoutax what a sweet comment! You can get that candy corn spirea online from a number of places. That’s where I got mine. It was little but healthy! 😁. Thank you so much for such an encouraging comment❤️

[@patbryan602]

That's a genius tip for the stella d'oro hedge! They are so tough and low maintenance that a lot of people around my area use day lilies to grow in culvert ditches across their road frontage along their front lawns...I guess to prevent walking or parking too close and falling in to the ditch. Sheering them off and having them quickly come back is a great method to easily maintain appearance. Your hedge looks magnificant in bloom and still nice as fresh, mounded greenery. I have discovered an extremely quick and immediate way to eradicate weeds by sprinkling 10% vinegar concentrate on them. It will kill all vegetation so no good for lawns but great on mulched lawn replacement areas. By staying just a few inches away from other plants in garden beds, gravel areas, paver walkways, etc. it works wonders. After a few hours (especially in the sun) or a day, the weed is brown and can be pulled up easily or left to become mulch. It will of course hurt worms and soil microbes. I use a small watering can with a long, narrow, curved spout to spot soak at the stem and usually the root is killed, as well. 10% vinegar is often called "cleaning vinegar". Amazon has it and also stronger concentrations which can be diluted with water to take it down to 10%. It's expensive on Amazon. I use Allen's Cleaning Vinegar which is much less expensive and can be found at Home Depot or hardware stores. Your Yarrow got me wanting one for my garden and I recently found a fairly new hybrid dwarf variety which only matures to 10 inches tall and wide but has full size bloom heads. There are 4 colors in the Yarrow Milly Rock series. I'm going to try taking stem cuttings to see if I can root some more plants from it. My Opalescence is just starting to bloom, but my other two varieties (in same spot) still don't have buds. yet.

[@letsgrow260]

@@patbryan602 thank you so much❤️ I have some regular vinegar on hand. I may mix me up a 10% solution and try it! I never had yarrow before this spring and I LOVE IT! I had no idea it would bloom so long. And the aged blooms don’t look bad at all. I definitely want more of it. The dwarf variety would be so nice to have. Perfect for front of a border 😃

[@patbryan602]

@@letsgrow260 Regular, grocery store vinegar is 5% strength. I've tried it but without much success.

[@letsgrow260]

@@patbryan602… oh darn! Gotcha 👍 So… I ordered a bottle of 75% strength off Amazon. It makes several gallons once diluted. I will dilute it! Thanks so much for letting me know❤️

[@patbryan602]

Vinegar Follow Up: The strongest I've worked with is 45% and when a drop gets on the skin it really starts to burn withing seconds and immediate rinsing is necessary to stop the pain. It doesn't seem to damage the skin but a warning to use caution is warranted. I would advise goggles when pouring and diluting. It doesn't exude strong fumes but I made the mistake of sniffing the open bottle and it gave quite a jolt! I have also applied it with a handheld pump sprayer with a mist nozzle which works well on larger areas and uses up less of the solution than pouring from a watering can, but spot hitting small areas or individual weeds works well with the spout can. I have found that diluting it to 10% strength works effectively. Maybe a little stronger for tap root weeds to get the root killed, too.

[@letsgrow260]

@@patbryan602 I really have a problem with pokeweed. It has a huge rhizome so I would probably need a high concentration to kill it. I read the reviews on Amazon and a woman showed a picture of her finger after some got in her rubber glove. Her skin was raw and red…. Looked horrible! I plan on mainly using it under a fence where lots of pokeweed and amaranth grows and I can’t mow it…And spot treatments. Thank you for that follow up.❤️