Weekly Walkabout & Garden Tour - End of July, Big Blooming Hydrangeas & Phlox 🌸🪴💐

[@BobCoupar]

Glad you are feeling better.

[@Suburbanoasis]

Thanks, I appreciate it!

[@lindamiller394]

I missed hearing from you last week . Glad you are feeling better. Your gardens are so beautiful. Take care.

[@Suburbanoasis]

Thank you so much! I appreciate it. 🤗

[@gloriaboyd5274]

❤

[@lindahall1971]

The white phlox is beautiful 😮

[@LifeHomeandGardenwithAnaRica]

Such a lovely garden tour. Thank you

[@Jimmy-wd5nk]

Beautiful gardens and tour. I love your grandmother's table. I am very much a sentimental and family person. Sometimes, my wife laughs at me. It's so nice to be able to have your grandmother's table in the garden. When you visit the gardens, you'll have wonderful memories. Have a good day! Glad you're doing better.

[@Suburbanoasis]

Thank you so much! It is very much something that brings me good memories of sitting on a deck at my family cabin.

[@pamelacallaway3922]

Your garden is looking fantastic! Those hydrangeas are really gorgeous! You have so much variety and interesting yard decor.

[@Suburbanoasis]

Thank you, Pam!!

[@tamasrobby6872]

You've probably passed a nest and got scolded. Love your petunia colors and repetition is very helpful. Appreciate your mentioning the amount of sun your plants get. We had a wet, cool/cold March and then instant summer with drought since then outside of Philadelphia. I ordered two Pugster butterfly bushes along with Candy Corn spirea for my slopes. Love grasses along with coneflowers. Again thank you for the tour.

[@ElizabethBosticArt]

Your garden is looking beautiful as always! Thank you for the tour! ❤

[@vanessab2726]

Your property is just breathtaking!!! WOW! What a gorgeous garden! It’s just so very beautiful. Thank you for sharing ❤

[@Suburbanoasis]

Thank you!

[@ilonaS1979]

It's nice to relax on the sun loungers by the pool ❤

[@jenmason40]

Don't you just love this time of year with how the garden looks so beautiful? Yours is gorgeous as always. Hope you feel better. Cheers from Toronto, Canada zone 5b

[@Suburbanoasis]

Yes! Thank you, I am starting to feel much better.

[@lytieuanh1993]

Your garden are so beautiful, take care 🌲🌺💐🪴🌲

[@judymckerrow6720]

Thanks Sunshine. Hope you’re feeling much better soon. 🌺💚🙃

[@Suburbanoasis]

I am getting better!!

[@alicehihn3250]

So glad you are feeling better. Garden is beautiful 🌺🌺🌼🌻

[@Suburbanoasis]

Thank you so much 😊

[@dianedalrymple7711]

Soleil, I am so sorry to hear that you were sick. I kept looking for your video as I always do and then wondered if you might be on vacation. I sure hope you feel better. I love all the information you give us on your videos. Your gardens look beautiful 🥰🌸🌺

[@Suburbanoasis]

Thank you Diane! Working on getting back in the swing of things!

[@gmama8662]

I appreciate your artistic eye in your garden. 😊

[@Suburbanoasis]

Thank you! 😊

[@alice_rabbit8345]

Your videos always make me smile!

[@Suburbanoasis]

I'm so glad!

[@micheleboykin627]

Absolutely beautiful. It's an inspiration for me and I decided what I want to do with an old iron pot that belonged to my husband's grandfather that he brought up from Mississippi. Thank you so much for sharing your garden.

[@Suburbanoasis]

That's really cool to hear!

[@connieclay5527]

Oh, I'm sorry to hear you've been under the weather! I was wondering where you were! It's good you're feeling better! So glad to walk around the garden with you again! Here in Minnesota, we have a bumper crop of mosquitoes also! I am wondering what is your favorite hosta variety that gets very large? I am needing to fill a big shade area and am hoping to get a few bigger ones! Thanks for the tour!❤

[@Suburbanoasis]

I hope the bumper crop of mosquitoes gets better soon. I really like the earth angel hosta, but it is a shorter variety than the blue angel. They are both gorgeous!

[@michellefrance1165]

Glad you are feeling better!! Everything looks beautiful and I absolutely love all of your hydrangeas ❤❤❤ yes the mosquitoes have been horrible and the weather has definitely been strange this year. I have been dealing with Covid as well this past week, still trying to get better slowly but surely.

[@Suburbanoasis]

Hope you feel better soon too!!

[@careygreene6730]

Everything looks beautiful as always, the pink phlox are really eye catching. I hope you continue to feel better!

[@Suburbanoasis]

Thank you so much!

[@annamariaheyliger-hector5372]

Welcome back, glad you’re feeling better!❤🌺🪴

[@SharonHenscheid]

Wow your hydrangeas are beautiful 💯

[@duane-gailfuller7067]

Sorry to hear you were sick, it can take a while to get back in the swing of things. So many beautiful plants you showed us, hard to pick a favorite “snapshot”, spectacular wherever you look! Your containers and the different grouping are luscious, the hydrangeas are really stunning and I very much enjoy all the hostas and grasses. My favorite moment was when you showed off your Grandma’s table, that was so touching and beautiful.❤️Thank you for the wonderful tour. Gail

[@Suburbanoasis]

Thanks, Gail! I love that table and it brings me so many good memories of my grandma.

[@patevermann9769]

Your garden looks fabulous

[@veronicabyrd3699]

Your garden looks awesome. I love everything about it. Yes I see your mosquitoes and they looks big! Glad you are feeling better!

[@Suburbanoasis]

Thanks so much, Veronica!

[@vickiesecary7939]

Miss you in your garden working. Your videos have been missed, too! Hope to see more of you in the garden. 🤗🤗

[@marylynnhaynes7558]

I noticed today I have buds all over my pieris. I love it so much.

[@Suburbanoasis]

Beautiful!!

[@VrindaPejavara]

Your containers near the pool are very beautiful.

[@nancykulp8545]

So sorry you've been sick, glad you're beginning to feel better! You have the loveliest garden! Full of color and full of flowers!

[@amywilliams4345]

So glad you're feeling better! Your gardens look lovely, as usual.

[@lovelight9164]

My favorite hydrangea this year is my little lime then my firelight tidbit. Last year I loved my vanilla strawberrys and my bobo's they just dont look as good this year, the westher has just been strange un Indiana this year.

[@Suburbanoasis]

Isn't it strange how different years things can be so different in the same garden? I like it though because it make you appreciate the different plants for what they bring.

[@Jdadkins6198]

So beautiful! You’ve got such an amazing collection of beautiful hydrangeas. I’m struggling so bad with mosquitoes too! It was a rainy spring and early summer which made everything so beautiful but I can’t even enjoy the evenings. It’s really hot during the day here in NE Kansas. So I try going out in evenings to deadhead and pull Japanese beetles off. Ugh, I ended up with tons of bites. One I think is getting infected. I try using organic sprays but they wear off too soon. I hate that off stuff. It stinks so bad. I want to find something organic I can spray the yard with that won’t hurt the other flying insects. Is there such a thing? We live right by a creek so I don’t even know if it would be worth spraying the yard. Sometimes I wish I lived in Colorado with a garden, they don’t deal with mosquitoes or bugs like us Midwest and Southern folks do. Course, I think how nice Michigan might be with cooler nights would be too. 😊Thank you for sharing your beautiful garden today. ❤

[@larkwyll7351]

Fantastic job.

[@robinson101011]

Missed seeing you. And thanks for the video and for putting up with the mosquitoes to bring it to us. One question, what is the exact name for your Goldfinch daisies? I did an internet search but never did find your's.

[@Suburbanoasis]

That's their name! Here a link to a place that sells them. gilberthwild.com/product/goldfinch-shasta-daisy/

[@MindysPlace]

Glad to hear you are feeling better... July has been a challenge for sure.

[@Suburbanoasis]

It has!

[@patriciaterry5539]

Absolutely gorgeous!

[@SuzanneTheme]

Mosquitoes in Virginia have been rough but my trusty dragonflies are on patrol now😊 As always your gardens are lovely. Thank you for sharing 😊

[@Suburbanoasis]

I just got more dragonflies too, they are amazing!! Beautiful creatures.

[@susanarthur9175]

Could you do a video that concentrates more on the trees and types of junipers. Thank you for sharing your garden with us.

[@Suburbanoasis]

Thanks for the idea, I will see what we can do.

[@debbierodriguez7368]

Your garden is looking beautiful it's popping beautiful flowers and the plants are so big please tell me your secret to having a beautiful garden.

[@Suburbanoasis]

So much depends on the soil I think and I mulch every year to help continue to feed the soil. But a lot can also depend on your climate and how much rain you get. Thank you for your nice compliments!

[@kimedge7493]

It's good to see you up and about again. Take it easy. I would love to grow a hibiscus but I've heard they get devoured by Japanese beetles. Do your plants ever have that problem?

[@Suburbanoasis]

Thanks, Kim! The beetles do nibble on the foliage. I suppose it depends on how bad you get japanese beetles. They don't seem to bother with the blooms though!

[@karenadams5400]

Looks lovely!

[@savorit3807]

Beautiful paradise ❤

[@relaxingnatures81]

Beautifull flowers ❤❤❤

[@SRizzo-ez8ih]

For your former boxwood hedge area, have you considered Japanese helleri? They have the look of the boxwoods but without the diseases associated with boxwoods. Or even cryptomeria globosa nana? I think both are deer and rabbit resistant.

[@Suburbanoasis]

Thanks! I am currently giving little henry sweetspire a try because it is so wet from the downspout in that area.

[@ncflowergirl1446]

Wow love the way your hydrangeas color up don’t get that here in nc

[@innaking7658]

Thanks for sharing!!!!

[@emmawilliamson3940]

Thank you, Soleil!

[@beckyogas0619]

Beautiful garden 😍 do you know if the David Phlox spreads?

[@Suburbanoasis]

It does a little but nothing aggressive. It's well behaved.

[@carikent7345]

How do you keep your lungwort looking so good and full, mine all died back after they bloomed. I cut them back after they bloomed this spring to avoid powdery mildew and they came back but shortly after all the leaves wilted.

[@Suburbanoasis]

Sounds like they needed more water than they got possibly after they grew back....

[@melissawilliams3290]

Hi! Yes, my pieris is setting buds too (NE Ohio zone 6a). Question: I just planted some opal lungwort this summer and it's starting to get white on the leaves. Suggestions?

[@Suburbanoasis]

That is probably powdery mildew. You can spay some neem oil or copper fungicide on it. The plant may look a bit bad for a bit but will Come or you can cut off the impacted leaves and throw in the garbage.

[@melissawilliams3290]

@@Suburbanoasis Will do. Thanks for the reply!

[@staceyallard2692]

I’m in SW Michigan and the mosquitoes are OUT. OF. CONTROL. over here! I mean, I can hardly get out in my garden to water or do any maintenance! It’s bad! I really should’ve watered today and I attempted and had to abandon it. Especially this past week they’ve been out morning, noon, & night. Just awful!

[@Suburbanoasis]

Yesss, I haven't been able to do anything either. 😪 Sorry you have them too.

[@PilarFrancisco-Saguil]

Hi your garden is beautiful, just wondering how your arborvitae topiary looks like now.

[@Suburbanoasis]

It's good, they have done well!

[@deborahrichardson4860]

Hi, I noticed some burning bushes slightly changing colour this week. Hopefully, this is not an indicator of an early winter. I am in 6b, London, Ontario.😮

[@Suburbanoasis]

Thanks for sharing

[@kaystinebrink1220]

Help!!! My son wants me to plant an area in his yard which get NO direct sun. This area is shaded by him home. Grass grows great but I'd love to grow hydrangeas against the house but don't know a variety that would work. Any ideas?

[@laurelrosegardens6454]

Not sure what zone you're in but if the area is truly zero sun there aren't many blooming shrubs that will do well long-term. That said I have Little Quickfire Hydrangeas on the north side of the house that get only a few hours of direct afternoon sun and they do great. Check out large perennials like Sun King Aralia or Snakeroot as well. They get very large and look like shrubs in summer. Yews can also do well in shade.

[@eugenyah]

Does the area get any sun at all, even if for a few hours in the morning? Depending on your zone, Macrophylla (bigleaf) Hydrangea, such as Endless Sumnmer Bloomstruck will handle shade better with 2 or 3 hours of morning sun. Also, some oakleaf hydrangeas and the White Wedding paniculatta hydrangea can do well in shade as long as they get a few hours of sun to promote flowering. If the area is 100% shade, the only Hydrangea that will do well will be a climbing hydrangea. Happy gardening!

[@Suburbanoasis]

If the grass grows well, there is probably just enough sun. The hydrangeas may not bloom as much or do as well as they would with more sun. I see other have provided you with some great responses!

[@Angie-ci1lp]

Beautiful! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽🥰

[@Suburbanoasis]

Thank you! 🤗

[@mariensanchez2475]

Waooo beauteful garden

[@abrahamchampagne3083]

Where in mid Michigan? I’m in Saginaw!

[@Suburbanoasis]

Just by Lansing.

[@robertagrigsby9051]

Same thing is happening to my Pieris

[@Suburbanoasis]

Thanks for sharing!

[@jennetteojeda5792]

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