Picture Perfect Garden Planning: 5 Tips for Photos, Video & Empty Spaces

[@sharonbannister6564]

So helpful! I just love your relaxed commentary! I’m in California 9b and even though the details are very different, your approach to gardening is very helpful and encouraging.

[@GardenSanity]

Thank you so much Sharon! 😊 I really appreciate your feedback - it means a lot! Do your perennials have much of a dormant season in 9b?

[@sharonbannister6564]

@@GardenSanity your question gave me pause. I’ve really only started using perennials, thanks to all the gardening videos I’ve been watching I’m trying new things.

[@GardenSanity]

@@sharonbannister6564 That's the smartest way to do begin -- try one or two new plants and see how they do before spending a lot of money and equally important: before spending a lot of effort! 🙂🧡

[@perennial-garden]

Thanks for the tour and advice :) Greetings from Denmark.

[@GardenSanity]

You’re welcome! So glad you commented because I clicked over to see your channel and instantly subscribed! I look forward to enjoying your videos and learning about your beautiful gardens! 👍😀

[@perennial-garden]

@@GardenSanity And our zones are kinda close to each other 🥰 -- so I bet we have lots in common!

[@GardenSanity]

@@perennial-garden It is really neat to learn what a small world gardening can be when zones and climates are taken into consideration! But I bet you don't have mosquitoes, right? 🦟🤣

[@perennial-garden]

hahaha. No, thankfully we do not! @@GardenSanity

[@d.wilbur5164]

What a great and timely video of garden planning! Everything looks beautiful. Happy Sunday, Laura!! - Doleen

[@GardenSanity]

Thank you Doleen! 😊 I hope you’re enjoying cooler temps since the hot Summer! 🧡🍃

[@QueenGail]

This is a great idea to keep me from pulling up the new plants I’ve planted and not remembering what or where it is 😅 Blessings 💜💚

[@GardenSanity]

Anything to make gardening easier, Gail! 😀

[@suzetteccc]

I love your style of videos - anyone who has a sense of humour while gardening is a must watch. I loved the comment that ten years later you are still learning. I've been in my garden in Vancouver, Canada (Z7), for 12 years and I'm still watching instructional videos - and learning. This is a great one. Love the tips. You know how young people don't want you to swipe in their photos? Well, anyone can swipe away in mine. It's all gardens (mainly mine obvs) but that's pretty much it. I probably need to get out more. Thanks for sharing. I'm off to another of your videos!

[@GardenSanity]

My photos are similar: garden photos and our two cats! 🤣 But taking all those photos always helps us see how much progress we’ve made! 👍 I’m glad you like my sense of humour in the garden, which I think is essential for any gardener to be able to laugh at things! 😀 I’m still learning too, even after 30 years of gardening! There’s always garden surprises! ❤️

[@Carl-iw9sy]

Great tips about taking photos and videos. I am now paying for cloud space due to the amount of images and videos 😅 I also have a Blue Star juniper in a well drained area with good organic soil in full sun and just like yours mine loses small branches like yours does. This year I added drip irrigation and looks like it helped a little. We'll see how it performs next year.

[@GardenSanity]

Thanks so much Carl! You made me laugh out loud about cloud space 😂 but it sure does help! Thank you for sharing about your own Blue Star Juniper. I definitely think that the three I showed in this video have received too much water. I have three others that are in full sun in different garden beds and they don't receive as much water and are thriving. So my guess is they need less water than I've been giving them meanwhile the Little Lime Hydrangeas needed a bit more. I'm glad your drip irrigation is helping! 👍It's so tricky figuring out how much water individual plants need versus how the soil drains versus never knowing what Mother Nature is planning. But that's what keeps us gardening, right? It's a puzzle, a challenge, and when we get it right -- oooh is that a nice feeling! 😃

[@willaerley7140]

I just carved out my new front bed and made sure the tulips got their first picture. Everyone thinks the bed looks like a burial grave, but that’s only because I ran out of mulch. 😂 I don’t know if I would save the Blue Star Junipers. Once they get scraggly, I’ve never been able to make an evergreen look good.

[@GardenSanity]

😂 I’m laughing so hard at the burial grave description! 🤣 I’d love to grow tulips, but alas…rabbits. As for mulch, I usually under order or under purchase what I need. Except once when I had too much, which was a bit nutty trying to use it all. 🙃 I love my other Blue Stars that look great, so these are making me sad. But maybe they just need to be put out of their misery quietly. 🤔🤫🫣

[@willaerley7140]

@@GardenSanity Maybe, do tulips in pots? 🌷

[@GardenSanity]

I keep thinking of trying daffodils in pots, never thought about tulips. Hmmmm… what kind(s) of tulips did you plant? 🌷

[@willaerley7140]

@@GardenSanity It’s the Impression mix. Various shades of pink and red. Supposedly, they come back every year, but we’ll see. 🤞🏻

[@GardenSanity]

@willaerley7140 Tulips usually aren’t as good the second year if they do come back - but I hope you get a fabulous show next Spring! 💐

[@linhmoberly4493]

Beautiful garden. ❤. So many ideas and infos in this video. Very inspirational… Thanks Laura.

[@GardenSanity]

You're welcome Linh! Always glad to share ideas and inspiration as we wind down the garden and look forward to the Winter season filled with dreaming about gardening! 🍂🌻🧡

[@joshuagorman6222]

A row of pink or blue skullcap up the driveway would look great!

[@GardenSanity]

Thanks for the great suggestion Joshua! 👍My fear is that skullcap spreads by rhizomes. I had a really bad experience with a variety of Japanese Anemone (that I loved) spreading all over one of my backyard garden beds -- overtaking everything. I've been working on pulling every single new sprout out -- and will probably be doing this forever. 🤣 Whenever I see "spreads by rhizomes" in a plant description, I begin shaking! 😆 What's your experience with skullcap and how fast/slow they spread?

[@meep2576]

Love the red twigs for winter

[@GardenSanity]

Me too! I look forward to them every year! ❤