Planting Summer Flowers in Containers

[@alicelaber2068]

I like the pot combos and where they are. This video made me realize I made a miatake a couple of days ago. I needed a home for a few herbs and stuck them in a blueberry pot. I didn't think about the acidity of the soil. I will have to move them to a better home!

[@JenniMBE]

The formal English garden layout sounds brilliant. Maybe with some rambling roses over an arbour? and a nice focal point at the end of the lawn?

[@detectivemikevarnado7515]

Love the blueberry bushes

[@susanparker-heitel702]

I have Friday off and had a sinking feeling that I had worked on my day off. So glad it is Thursday and I have Friday off!

[@donnahurder4665]

When you pot up the blueberry bushes in separate pots, place them in between those seasonal pots! You will always have some interest and movement as you enter the drive.

[@K-Zone]

Those calibraocha or million bells actually are perennial down to zone 8b. My grandma has a plant that's lived for 6+ years, and their winters get down into the low 20s and high teens sometimes. It's amazing to see it bud out in spring every year

[@connieeneix3891]

It’s lovely 🥰. But Brian it’s Thursday 😊. But still happy to watch 😊

[@alysonbaker939]

I’m in west central MN. We are trying blueberries too. We have acid issues too. Love the double potting idea. I’ll share this vid with my husband as he is charge of blueberries. Thank you for another great show.

[@michellewelch6013]

I had such a fun time with my 4 yr old grandson planting the blue berry bush babies that I picked up at the local nursery. Jack, my grandson, has now harvested his first four blueberries! He was thrilled that he could grow his own favorite fruit. Thanks for the inspiration! Now his momma has planted more blue berry bushes to have them all along the fence in their back yard. Thank you, Brian! Youve inspired another generation of gardeners.

[@NextLevelGardening]

Love this!

[@darla123]

So pretty. I rarely see people plant more than Begonias in the summer here in NC, and Violets in the winter. Zone 8a.

[@22trident45]

I like the idea of season alongside the driveway.

[@margaretslade3405]

Pots look wonderful. Love the different alyssum colors, instead of the usual white. Will try and find that next year, your videos are always inspiring. I put a pump dispenser on the top of my flower fertilizer containers from Neptune Harvest. 4 squirts weekly, 8 squirts bimonthly in a watering can. Beats taking off the lid every time I use it.

[@NextLevelGardening]

I love the pump idea!

[@bethsands7665]

Yes...Seasonal interest pots are an awesome idea . I thought the blueberry in the middle was the odd-man-out. ChalobraKia is awesome.

[@stayinclassy4001]

Loved this video!! I cannot wait to see your progress through the seasons. The English cottage garden & the formal English garden & courtyard are going to be absolutely beautiful. I will have to look to see in your other videos how to run the tubing. I have never tried that. I love the choices in flowers you chose, Especially the spill over kind. That always looks stunning. Keep these wonderful videos coming and thank you for all the hard work you do to bring them all to us. God Bless you & your family. 🤗❤️🙏❤️

[@candicecole1097]

A burst of color. The purple catches my eye and leads the view back to the cottage garden. I'm wanting a row of mulch under the pots to set them off.

[@susanhenley8240]

Seasonal pots lining the driveway is very nice. Move the blueberries if you have to.... that said, what about bulbs? Can you get enough variety of flowering bulbs to cover most of the year so you can leave the blueberries? Am glad to see how you used the skinny drip tube in the pots! I've not been happy with the watering heads in many locations in our garden and this could be a good swap.

[@Gkrissy]

Love the pots. You gave me an idea to do that along my walkway with some purple roses.

[@NextLevelGardening]

Wonderful!

[@rossanablackburn4111]

I actually did the same with my blue berries after watching your video. I think is such a great idea and makes my garden look really nice :) I think when I need to transplant I will get bigger pots to keep doing this. Thank you for all the teachings and ideas you give us.

[@debbies2966]

So pretty. I love how you planted the annuals in the blueberry pots.

[@NextLevelGardening]

Thanks! 😊

[@ritalr15]

Love those pots and will ha e to see if our store has them. They will look fabulous with seasonal changes

[@juaba4173]

this is exactly the kind of thing I need to see, I did NOT grow up gardening so this detail is so helpful!! Thanks Brian! Love from Sonoma zone 9b

[@NextLevelGardening]

Glad it was helpful!

[@leslietromski3395]

When you have pots with different light requirements begonias are a great alternative. They will thrive in low light and full sun. I am sure there are other flowering plants that will do the same.

[@christyw2010]

Love FLOWER Friday’s! Mecardonia was new to me! If I EVER get too old to work in my garden, I will be so thankful for your videos! I will watch them and relive my need to plant & grow beauty!

[@kerrycarter9428]

Love the new flowers around the blueberries. I have used those in the past to cascade over the sides of a larger plant as well. Unfortunately the deer like them too. Love your idea to leave them along the driveway and change for the seasons. And I can see you guys having a good old fashioned English garden party in your completed formal garden! Thanks for all you do to teach us, I frequently rewatch certain videos to refresh my memory before I plant something new. Tehachapi mountains, zone 8b.

[@phenixwars1]

I think the seasonal interest pots are a great idea. I love the yellow flowers I'll have to watch again to get the name. Today's video brightened my day as I sit here with asthma from the smoke up here in the northeast. Thanks for the breakdown of the future garden plans. Lots of videos to look forward to 😊

[@ritalr15]

Love how you added color to the growing blueberry plants.

[@tericamcginnis5848]

My vote is for seasonal interest along the driveway. Plus if you end up having to get the bb moved having them in one area might give more options for netting. Enjoy.

[@sanjivanigarden7353]

Beautiful flowers 🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸 nice tips sir❤❤

[@juneritchie2498]

Woo hoo! The pots will be beautiful! And, your plans for the formal English garden sound wonderful.

[@nchestercountynews4955]

maybe the smoke has affected things. And not the Canadian smoke.

[@lindysmallwood2039]

I think it would be beautiful have flowers along the driveway. Thank you for the video. Blessings❤️🌺

[@NextLevelGardening]

You're welcome!

[@RevLetaLee]

Sweet. What I like the most about your work is that you have real long term experience. Being such a beginner (1 year in only pots and 2nd year with raised beds and pots for fruiting trees and bushes for now) I am still learning so much and can only go so far each year. I may be learning from you for years and years. Thanks.

[@NextLevelGardening]

You're welcome

[@lindafreeman1687]

Pots look good. Anxious to see them all filled out. How about a narrow and tall (maybe 2 feet wide and 2 feet tall) raised bed for the blueberries?

[@djeoutdoors]

Love the plants and colors. Looks good 😊

[@craighalle7892]

I really like those little flowers. They are wonderful. I had 3 blueberries potted and they all died after the second year. I did try acidification in the soil and acidic fertilizer, but that did not help. I was away for a few weeks so not watering could have done it. Now the plants are so pricey I don't want to try again until I feel more sure they will grow. Another great video. I am not excited about the English garden, but you could change all that when I see it finished. May the Lord keep blessing you and yours.

[@MiladaKaiser]

I also have alcaline soil. With the help of powder Sulfur and a soil acidifier I changed it successfully and the blueberries produce happily for a few years.

[@grisespino5342]

You may want to consider a "French drain" when doing the work around the house. Give excess rain a way away and put from your hikomes foundation. Pots came out nice.

[@lindag4484]

Maybe rectangular (formal garden) trough planters, in between the blueberry pots, for planting seasonal interest, and allow the blueberries their whole pots as they grow larger. ...a nice, formal-looking driveway border that can have seasonal plantings.

[@nchestercountynews4955]

Isn't it Thursday?

[@jahart358]

Lol . It is here in Ohio 😂

[@GardenKatt]

He did this on friday but put the post out. Give the man a break. He is doing so much at his place it is a wonder he has time to get any videos posted at all. I know I am lucky to get a video out a week or 2.

[@MiladaKaiser]

@@jahart358 CA is always ahead in everything. Ohio !

[@Carol32547]

HAHAHA!!!!

[@JAYNEmM1962]

That's what I said???

[@growagarden54]

The pots look pretty. I had to laugh, when you mentioned forgetting to hook the drip to the main line. It happens :) For a future idea for blueberries along the driveway, maybe build or purchase larger square black pots for them with a perennial ground cover between them.

[@lisakruger5289]

The pots look great and the chicken cottage is really coming along! I can't wait to see how the pots look once the flowers fill out some!

[@BaloosCluesOriginal]

Like your last home, it will look amazing when you are done. I can't wait to see the formal English Garden.

[@NextLevelGardening]

Me too!

[@BaloosCluesOriginal]

By the way, I think keeping the row of pots for seasonal interests, is a great idea.

[@patkrueger7353]

Your gardens are beautiful and when everything 8s done its going to be fabulous! I think thats a great idea for seasonal devor for your pots. You are a great artist

[@sandraoconnor5700]

Beautiful colors and love interchanging them❤❤❤

[@MiladaKaiser]

Brian, you are making really a great progress. But still - so much to do ….Big plans! I guess you have also some non gardening followers, who think, that one day it will be DONE. :)

[@NextLevelGardening]

You are right!

[@MichaelRei99]

@@NextLevelGardeningell at some point you’ll have to say you’ve realized your vision!

[@NextLevelGardening]

I just realize one vision at a time!

[@leighannf.4730]

I added some yellow mecardonia in my porch railing planters this year and they're so cute and hardy!

[@NextLevelGardening]

They are!

[@leighannf.4730]

As far as the blueberries, you could just repot in slightly shorter pots and put one between each of the cream colored ones to give a little varied visual interest/height difference. I love seeing the progress of your property!

[@camicri4263]

Formal English garden, sounds wonderful! For the pots, I don't know if the color is a good fit for the formal English garden area?! 🤗💜🤗

[@teresaseggerman9402]

Trade the places of the garage plants from one side of the door to the other every week or so. Would be the same as rotating a pot so all sides get sun requirements.

[@NextLevelGardening]

I would but that would mean unhooking the drip each time which is a pain

[@caterjunes3426]

I garden almost entirely in containers, and I had a good laugh over your drip error. I can't tell you how many times I've either forgotten to turn on the timer, or open up the emitters, or forgotten to put in the emitters at all! Also, a question: There's a south-facing spot in our front yard on a slight slope where the sun pounds down all day long. The only shade it gets is when the sun goes down. I've mulched the heck out of it because even with drip irrigation, it dries out super fast. Even plants that are supposed to do well in full sun often languish. So, would alyssum do well there? I'm all for self-seeding, and I'd love to see some growing among the coreopsis that I've also been letting self-seed for the past couple of years. Thoughts?

[@davidclair4616]

Omg! You have done such a great job!

[@kristiespaan4938]

Did you toss the pansies? Just shear them back protect from heat and keep them moist. They will be beautiful again this Fall.

[@GardenKatt]

I remember you said you had some mole problems. A guy I know is using some scissor mole traps. They work. Feed the carcasses to the chickens. Free food for birds. Good luck.

[@terrimacaleese2802]

I have had blueberries in pots for about 3 years now. Should I replace some of the soil? They are doing well now that I moved them out of reach of my dog. She “pruned” them pretty hard. 😜

[@karenschwartz5209]

😊 nice! Thank you 😊

[@brianbarker2670]

Just a thought but why don't you occasionally rotate the containers by your garage from side to side so each get a period of sun?

[@terrieholloway9066]

Awesome 😎

[@DDGLJ]

Where does your water come from? Blueberries and an English garden in SoCal must be fairly water intensive compared to the resources.

[@MsMARIASC]

Can you plant strawberries with the blue berries in the containers?

[@juliepizzolato1911]

Do you have a link for that awesome watering can? Loved yet another of your videos❤

[@AngelaMaschki-z7o]

Hello. I am hoping that you can answer a question for me as i have never ever heard or seen this done before. I was watching another youtuber plant her garden and in the hole for her tomato plant she put an egg and smooshed it up and then put in her tomato plant. I think she mentioned something about calcium this method is completely new to me! Thanks,

[@lyndawilliams7873]

I love it

[@moogoomoogoo5990]

So I have been successful in growing blue berry plants in pots. Blue berries develop and the birds get them all. Other than netting are there any strategies? On a related note, when is the best time to trim back some of the growth of these bushes? Right after they are done fruiting?”

[@charlimiali9364]

Things are looking Great 👍 what is the dry fertilizer you used for the flowers in the blueberry pots? In a white bucket?

[@NextLevelGardening]

Crab and lobster shell and kelp meal. I have a discount link in the description

[@charlimiali9364]

@@NextLevelGardening thanks. You’re always so helpful. Appreciate you

[@loriblikre1777]

Oops, I believe it's pronounced cal-ah-bra-koa, not choa. Even tho that's how it's spelled. The transformation and work ur doing is amazing

[@hollyreilly4818]

Done? what do these people mean? Done. 😂

[@cindystimson3632]

Finished. Such as, the flowers will look lovely when you are done (finished). Or, I'm done. (Finished)

[@MiladaKaiser]

@@cindystimson3632 Yes, except - in the gardener’s heart THIS NEVER HAPPENS !!!

[@cindystimson3632]

True

[@dwardodwardo643]

I think you limited the root size of your blueberrys. I think it might be better to match under plantings with plants with similar needs, like strawberries.

[@UVBlackLights]

Great video. question. How long do you run your drip on your containers and garden beds?

[@MiladaKaiser]

It is very individual and has to change with time of the year, weather, rain, kind of flowers….

[@UVBlackLights]

@@MiladaKaiser Yes, I understand that. I believe he is in Diego, which has somewhat of the same weather as I do here, so I was curious how long he runs his drip for around this time, in summer heat.

[@bonnies1405]

How long will you keep the blueberry plants in the containers you used?

[@NextLevelGardening]

Probably a year. Depends how fast the roots fill the pot

[@ChantalL00000]

I noticed your leaky hose link connector at the end of video. Mine is doing the same 😢 any solution short of replacing it (I’ve already replaced mine once)?

[@lispottable]

Do all those annuals like acid soil?

[@NextLevelGardening]

No. The soil in the outer pot is regular

[@michellewelch6013]

If I have something like (eek!) Miracle Grow laying around…. Can I use it up or is it actually harmful to my flower pots?

[@NextLevelGardening]

I would say if you're going to use it that would be the best place

[@roxannegujda3635]

I saw that the best chance for a response is to ask a question within 2 hours of the latest video. I'm at 4 hours after, but my question has to do with tomatoes. We are growing tomatoes on strings and I just broke one of my tomato tops (Sungold). Is it a lost cause?

[@NextLevelGardening]

Well...bad news is... sungold is a cherry tomato so you don't want to string and prune them. Good news is breaking the top off won't hurt a cherry tomato!

[@shellylessard9299]

I miss the jingle song 🤷‍♀️