June 2024 Backyard Garden Tour | Shady areas |

The heat is on and summer is in full swing in Zone 9 along the Texas Gulf Coast south of Houston. Gardens are usually peaking now or have already peaked. Join me for my backyard pollinator garden tour looking at the shady and dappled shade areas of the garden.

[@GrandmaSandy]

Thanks so much, my dear friend for another great video and thanks for another great garden tour as always beautifully done by you love all the beautiful birdfeeders all the beautiful flowers and bloom. Thanks so much for sharing my.

[@ButterfliesNBirds]

Thank you so much for joining me! Your comments are always so uplifting! 🥰

[@HoustonKeith72]

I just love the coleus.

[@ButterfliesNBirds]

Coleus does so well for us in the Houston area in a shade garden. And now there are varieties of Coleus that do well in sun. Although I haven't put a coleus in full sun down here (8+ hours), I have seen them do well in part sun areas in my garden. And I love all the colors, leaf textures, sizes, etc.!

[@nicholasryan5401]

Beautiful plants in your shady areas, they are the bees knees. Its amazing the garden you have created in such a short time for pollinators. In our shady areas we have hostas, brunneras, astilbes, foxgloves, dicentra bleeding hearts, astrantias and heucheras. We have not seen many butterflies in our area in rural Ireland this year, maybe they will come later in the season.

[@ButterfliesNBirds]

I love the plants you listed in the shady areas of your garden! 😍 I wasn't familiar with astrantias, so I had to look those up! Very pretty. 😊

[@meganramsey2228]

Be careful with that Rue! I had a reaction to it by brushing my arm on it and skin being exposed to UV light. It didn't itch me, but it left me with red marks all over my arm and I still have scars! Crazy! That's a pretty milkweed!

[@ButterfliesNBirds]

I am really careful with it - I don't touch it. Thank you for sharing what it did to you ... I will be even more careful!!! 👍

[@maraleelachovsky4702]

What caterpillar eats dill? Love your videos.

[@ButterfliesNBirds]

Thank you! 🥰 The Eastern Black Swallowtail butterfly lays eggs on dill, and the caterpillars love it.