A beautiful autumn garden stroll 🍂

[@SusanMathews-gu7jd]

I opened my latest Fine Gardening magazine and there you were. Congratulations on your new gig with Fine Gardening. You will be an asset to there social media presence.

[@TheImpatientGardener]

@@SusanMathews-gu7jd Thank you! I had no idea that was going to be in the magazine so it was a fun surprise to see it!

[@nansy212]

I love it when your puppies make guest appearances in the videos!

[@cherylt6888]

Enjoy Your garden tours, your unedited style and comments are it so much like we are on a visit with a friend ❤️ Magnus is such great fun !

[@MinnTee]

I absolutely love that you can be "in full work mode" and comfortable in front of the camera. Not only yourself, but also your gardens. It is as it is standing when you are shooting the video. Thank you for being real, natural and yourself. It makes me feel like I am not doing too bad with my own gardens.

[@paulacothren3591]

Love and hugs for Dorothy and Magnus!

[@jonsafer8442]

I think it’s Carex Blanda, or common wood sedge. great when you leave things alone and a few native surprises pop up!

[@Erin-tk5jw]

I have a ton of this at my new house (also SE WI), which has a long-neglected and overgrown yard, and this is what my best guess was. Thanks for confirming/agreeing with that guess! I’ve seen that it can be aggressive in more open soil, but at this point I’m more worried about the pervasive garlic mustard and thistles, so I’m letting it do its thing…

[@Bandaid17]

Sailing in Maine is beautiful and challenging. All those lobster pots LOL. Love the puppy. Hope Dorothy is happy to have a buddy.

[@victoria-louisevalois1323]

Hello Erin. I feel weird giving you suggestions, but everytime you do a tour of the shade and creek gardens I ask myself:"Has she ever considered placing a few large special stones along the side of the creek or in the actual planting to accentuate light and dark and add a little variety (besides shape and color)?" I'm not talking about changing the topography of Wisconsin a la Garden Answer, just a few special rocks that would speak to the woodland/ creekside feel. Love your videos. Thanks, Victoria.

[@teresab6502]

I've wondered too about placing some rocks or large stones along the creek to stabilize the edges. I think it would add some interest to the woodland area.

[@Jpatmeadowbrook]

In NJ rocks are a penny a pound and you usually need equipment to move them. I like the idea of landscaping by the stream with elderberry, switch grass -panicum virgatum,soft meadow cordgrass -spartina patens, white turtlehead-chelonne glabra, lobelia cardinais. I have sweet pepper bush-Clethera alnifolia that is holding up with this drought (I don’t water). Ps: you look great! and the dogs are an added treat to your already great videos. The best part of being a Master Gardener is sharing info🥰

[@TheImpatientGardener]

Oh I think about stones all the time. And then I remember that I swore off moving stones at least five years ago after retaining walls and paths broke my stone-lifting spirit. The real solution is actually a stone-lined creek (like a mason-built stone wall), as my neighbors to the east have, but I'm not interested in the destruction or money that would be involved in that. I feel confident that appropriate plants can solve the issue, and I know I can do those myself.

[@walksthroughlife900]

Gosh, your fuzzy velcro's walk is so cute!

[@judyrhine234]

I got my Fine Live and was so happy to see my friend Erin will be collaborating. Very exciting ❤

[@dinri5544]

I want to pet that fluffy, fluffy puppy. ❤

[@marthasidney2387]

My garden looks similar to yours meaning its fall and we've still had no rain. Would love a good rain before 1st frost.

[@LifeHomeandGardenwithAnaRica]

Very beautiful autumn in your garden, Love the scenery.

[@alice_rabbit8345]

I still have a dozen plants to get in. I’ve been chugging along dividing, moving plants and potting pieces up for a spring plant swap!

[@City_farmers88]

Your garden is beautiful, I see many kinds of flowers and ornamental plants. It is nice to enjoy a cup of tea and watch the flowers blooming. Thank you for sharing your beautiful pictures with everyone.

[@elijahthomas4080]

That Japanese maple is gorgeous the hole in the middle adds to the structural element of it and helps with that lacy look similar to what Cornus Florida does in part to fill shade. Also I’m curious as you why you don’t like geranium Rozanne? I’ve just got into hardy geraniums and it is the first one I bought because it is known to be the heaviest flowering. If you know of any others with different colors//growth habits that flower heavily all growing season please let me know!

[@ricaraca]

I am envious of your carex collection! Thanks for the video and walkabout the garden. Good luck with your project today 🍀

[@adz5bneweng589]

We've had a freeze, so dahlia folisge.has turned black. Fortunately, this week's weather has warmed, so digging up the tubers won't require stuffing :hot hands" into my gloves this year. FYI, I highly recommend those hot hands packs (insert into palm area of gloves). They really help keep my hands warm when the temps are in the 30's.

[@kimeeegngarden4887]

Hi Erin - I tried beneficial nematodes to combat a new infestation of asparagus beetles. I'd say it worked 85% with just one application. If I had made a follow up application a few weeks later, I think it would have wiped them out entirely. Since these are natural predators, it's probably considered organic. I believe the nematodes work on the beetle larva underground, so you may still have time to drench the soil this year. The type I purchased work to eradicate a large list of pests...even Japanese Beetles, so I sprayed the leftover nematodes under my roses. It seemed to help with those too.

[@kasiacholewinska]

It’s very interesting. Which nematodes did you use?

[@JoyintheGarden-Iowa]

I think you would like the Max Frei Geranium in the area where you have many other hardy geraniums. It has a very neat habit, flowers in early summer and off and on throughout the season (depending on rain for me). And in the fall it has a burgundy tint to the leaves.

[@nicolemartins7577]

Love your videos, Erin. I really like the unedited videos--they feel more authentic and it's like you're having a conversation with us. Also wanted to let you know that I planted Northern Sea Oats in a similar situation two years ago in my 6b Indiana garden and it has not spread one bit--annoying because I want it to spread. More Magnus please.

[@samanthascott712]

I also recommend some native elderberry for right in that creek. standing water, no problem. Shade, no problem. seasonal brook, yes please.

[@TheImpatientGardener]

Elderberry is iffy here. I've lost so many to verticillium wilt. I had a Lemony Lace survive this summer, so that's a good sign, but I'm reluctant to add more until I go a few years without a problem.

[@bernadette1510]

Congratulation on presence in the new issue of Fine Gardening!

[@janicegrogg9710]

Very pretty for October🙏🏻🙏🏻🫂💕

[@saladnander3690]

I'm currently making a container sphagnum peat bog for sarracenia (temperate pitcher plants) and other carnivorous plants and that's a much more manageable process than doing something in ground! My only experience yet though is that my mom and I have kept our sarracenia purpurea venosas alive for the past year, so we want to expand and keep more species lol. But might be worth looking into for on your deck or something!

[@TheImpatientGardener]

Sounds like a great project!

[@samanthascott712]

I needed to sit down after being at the garden center and your video was right on time and topic. That's one of the 1,000 reasons I show up here whenever you post. I was finished except for 4 perennials poised where they would be planted today. Then I went to the garden center and more grasses and a Blue Arrow juniper followed me home. The japanese maple tree is easier to pronounce when you pronounce the blue flower ACK' oh night. Then the tree name Ack' oh night ah folium rumbles off the tongue easier for us midwesterners. You could also call it by its japanese cultivar name mai kujaku (MY' koo jack koo) also. The Dancing Peacock.

[@Flowers4Everyone]

I was cracking up at the mom call for magnus aka MAGNUSSSSS😂❤

[@terrivance8750]

Thank you, Erin...& Magnus. 😊

[@MyFocusVaries]

It's so great that you've finished your fall planting. I thought I was finished, then our local nursery had its fall tree sale... Buy 3 get 30% off.

[@mellfraze8112]

Carnivorous plants are super cool & surprisingly not as difficult as I thought as long as you pick varieties that are suitible for your climate & light conditions. Summer Rayne Oaks did a video on carnivorous plants for her Flock Finger Lakes channel that was a collaboration with a grower/botanical garden down south, I learned so much from that.

[@laurenwellman2516]

Hi Erin. The garden is looking great. Love the pups. You are looking good too 😊. Sorry hope I’m not being too forward with the last comment

[@annespun]

LITERALLY! I had 3 of those same little caryxes (caryxi?) pop up in my yard this year, too. We have a lot of woods, and they popped up out of nowhere. I love them! I might transplant them to someplace more noticeable, and I believe they are some sort of native grass, too.

[@aneditor100]

When I grow dahlias, they are bothered by earwigs. The earwigs climb up the stems and nestle in the flowers and eat the petals. I now spread diatomaceous earth (DE) around the plants when they are about six inches tall, and that keeps both the slugs and the earwigs away from them. It has worked very well. I am unfamiliar with cucumber beetles, but if they are getting to the flowers in your garden by climbing the stems, they might be deterred by the DE. I have been enjoying your videos, particularly the Sip'n and Strolls, all year. And your new pup Mangus is a lot fun to watch too. Thank you for making such beautiful gardens and helping us do the same. :)

[@aneditor100]

I just answered my own question: cucumber beetles fly. So DE would not help. Oh well. What a shame. Captain Jack would work, but it would be as bad on blossoms as the beetles. :)

[@Lilbitofeverythinghomestead]

I love your ideas because I’m in central wisconsin and I think, well, if she can grow it maybe I can… you inspire me to branch out of my growing box..beautiful property, 😍ps………Your puppyyyyyyy❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@atlantagardener1]

I don’t love ornamental grasses. But those hakonechloa grasses dancing in the wind in your garden are weakening my certainty about that!

[@denisemalueg5165]

In that bed along the driveway, that you are realizing is more pt shade than shade, with the geranium….. you were wondering about other plants to add longer seasonal color, may I suggest Penstemon digitalis? It’s an early summer bloomer. Care free, WI native 😊

[@TheImpatientGardener]

Great suggestion and one that I have in the short list. Do you have a favorite variety? I grow a lot of Midnight Masquerade but I’m also looking for other great options.

[@denisemalueg5165]

@@TheImpatientGardenerI easily grew a flat of straight species Penstemon from seed (from Prairie Moon) this Spring. My problem was that I did not get them in the ground. My garden style is a bit “high hopes” mixed with a lot of “invasives eradication.” I also suspect you could sprinkle seeds now, to germinate in Spring - au naturelle (pardon my French). Risk the $3 for a packet and be a hero for us!😊

[@upnorth21]

Thank you for sharing. It is a beautiful day here in Michigan too. Love the changing colors in the garden. I'm sure you have told us before, but do you also put a frost cloth or something around the pots in the garage for extra protection? Loved seeing Dorothy and Magnus lying by each other!

[@TheImpatientGardener]

I don't but I am thinking about some addition protection for the zone 7 plants I'll be sticking in there.

[@bettyboop1524]

Here in KY we've had two lite frosts. I'm digging and planting like crazy, got to get this stuff in the ground. Is Dorothy tolerating the little guy? He is soooo cute,

[@MilasGardenChronicles]

Beautiful garden and fall colors. In our garden we're working on minimum grass, so as I develop new garden beds, I put cardboard down or contractor paper (scored a good sale at Lowe's) but I do prefer cardboard because it smother grass and weeds better. I wet the cardboard on all sides, overlap it and lay mulch or woodchips over it, about 4" to 6". If I already planted something, I like to use packing paper or add papers from the grocery stores, so it would break down faster. Work really well and only very stubborn weeds would still pop thru (dandelions, wild onions and the most hated Bermuda grass). But it still so much easier to take care of. Wishing you the besta

[@kathleenchurch8147]

I’ve only been finding cucumber beetles on my yellow and especially white dahlias. I carry a jar with soapy water and tap them in it. Manga is adorable and glad Dorothy has a buddy. 💜💜💜

[@joycemcginnis3723]

Hope your project goes well.

[@maryannbennett6869]

I live in town of Omro WI & on Tuesday October 15th we had pea sized hail.Then that night anything not under a tree or up close to the house frosted with my temperature being 29 degrees. I thought that this was quite unusual because I live by Lake Butte des Morts and most of the time we get frost later than anyone else. It is a good thing I pulled all the green tomatoes off my plants before it frosted. So it has been a strange fall for me. Happy that I still have my flowers that are under the trees & up by the house. It’s great you still haven’t had frost.

[@adz5bneweng589]

Love my Carhartt hoodies when gardening! But I'm already wearing my balaclava and wool hat (with ear flaps) while gardening in the morning - temps have been in low to mid 30's. Z5b/6a Massachusetts.

[@flatcreek4665]

I am attempting to overwinter my 3 Lemon Zest Lantana this year (6b). Also, I copied you Erin & planted 350 early Spring blooming bulbs in a section of my lawn yesterday. Hoping for a glorious show come Spring. 🤞

[@thaitv6917]

Love your show! Watching from Utah.

[@lilyw.1788]

What is your last day to plant evergreens and perennials ? So many good deals right now !

[@TheImpatientGardener]

In my opinion it's too late to plant evergreens here, but for non-evergreens I go with 6 weeks before the ground freezes, which I'm guessing is usually mid-December, so that would put us around early November for wrapping up planting. At this point the biggest issue is keeping everything watered so I've stopped planting and I'm focusing on keeping newly planted things happy until freeze.

[@scallywags12]

Lucky you for having sunshine and nice blooms. Your garden looks nice. Here in Nanaimo, (Vancouver island), B.C. Canada is monsoon rains and flooding. Good perennial to try in a moist border are some hardy lobelia like red Cardinal. Also has lovely blue, magenta colors.

[@zoreslavazinczenko1060]

I have "Max Frei" geranium. Don't know if it's still around 'coz I've had it for probably 20 yrs. Grows to about 12". I cut back to 1/2 to flush out flowers a second time. Bronze fall foliage. Have some in a.m. sun ('til noon-ish), and some in afternoon sun. Maybe give it a try???

[@kathleenpalmer845]

What is it about Rosanne Hardy geraniums that you don’t like ?

[@rebeccaz789]

It's shocking to see the plants changing for fall. I'm on the Space Coast of Florida so my garden is still going ham 😂

[@pocketsofmayhem]

Across the lake I have had two nights in a row of hard frost so today I dug dahlias for storage. Envious you have so much green still. A question: I am contemplating some Corten steel edging in a couple places that are difficult to keep edged and mulch contained. Wondered if you have a recommendation?

[@annespun]

Maybe add some evergreens into that first garden you were asking about.

[@TheImpatientGardener]

Oh there are lots more shrubs to come to that area, but I'm not in a huge hurry to "finish" that area.

[@seedsaverdiane5636]

I cut my Allium ‘Millieum’ to the ground before they go to seed. They reseed greatly in my SE Michigan (Z6a) garden. But pretty easy to pull out with a soil knife, if you want to spend the time, unlike Northern Sea Oats which a shovel is needed to dig out seedlings. It takes a few years for Northern Sea Oats to set seed and germinate. Be patient, in a few years you’ll have more then enough. I now cut my back before the seed heads turn brown.

[@TheImpatientGardener]

It's so interesting that some gardeners see a lot of reseeding with Millennium, particularly as almost every horticultural reference says its flowers have lower fertility than most varieties (many sources say "very low" fertility, Missouri Botanic Garden says 50-70% fertile flowers, which I don't consider low). I've definitely not noticed it in my garden (unlike the spring-blooming 'Purple Sensation', although that is dead easy to pull as well).

[@jondebbiegraff6492]

Erin, your idea or squirrel ranting in the garden doesn't come across to me like that. It sounds like me thinking through things in the garden. Cucumber beetles have been awful in my drought ridden NE Oklahoma garden. I love that you pointed out stress on plants with the correlation of pests. My garden beds seem fl enough that next year, I would like to focus on drip irrigation to help with these stresses in our climate. As well as composting and mulching.

[@MyFocusVaries]

For those wishing for rain, I'll send some your way. We've had an atmospheric river this weekend with localized flooding in South Coast British Columbia.

[@Cmash5195]

Lovely fall colours in your garden. What variety of geranium macrorrhizum do you have and why don’t you like Rozanne?

[@sleepinglioness5754]

I hired someone to trim my shrubs (broken rib preventing me to do the job) and he butchered my Spreading Junipers! He cut back the back plants to the stem....what would you do to fill in the 'blank'? Can't afford to tear out the entire area (10-20 feet). Do you think if I stick in some hydrangeas or a cedar they'd fill in the bare spot? I'm still in shock....and heartbroken.

[@paragraph_garden]

I'm not a Carex expert, but I think your mystery sedge is Carex blanda

[@jennypatterson6660]

I don't know how you find the time to take care of all your gardens! I have a hard time keeping up with my much smaller garden, and I am semi retired!

[@terrypauloregon]

Erin, Do you ever shake the beetles off the blooms into a bucket of soap/water? I was doing to for years with pests. Now that I haven’t seen you do it I stopped. But I’ve only seen 3 beetles on my Dahlias this summer.

[@Jpatmeadowbrook]

Linda Vater uses her DustBuster on her cucumber beetles !!! Instead if soapy water.

[@patdelaney191]

We pronounce monkshood, 'A con item'. A as in Aqua. 😊

[@TheImpatientGardener]

@@patdelaney191 Thank you!

[@Erin-tk5jw]

I saw Roy Diblik recommend geranium Tiny Monster and have been wanting some of it in my yard ever since! Maybe an option for that spot by the driveway?

[@TheImpatientGardener]

@@Erin-tk5jw I have several of them kicking around. A few succumbed to the jumping worms but they are a good and would be nice there.

[@faithkandler7092]

Could you spray the dahlia's with Neem Oil to get rid of the bugs?

[@leighseymour235]

Erin, curious, maybe I've missed you saying, but do you dig your dahlias or leave them in the ground? And, Magnus is the cutest.

[@TheImpatientGardener]

I dig them. Last year I left them in the skinny bed along the house with no expectation that they would make it and they all did (very mild winter though). This year I’ll be digging everything that I want to keep.

[@terrypauloregon]

That Dahlia reminds me of my dog. If she was there she’d be sticking her head through the fence.

[@jordanyeager9220]

Just curious, how much lighting do you have in the garden? Lighting in the vegetable garden?

[@TheImpatientGardener]

I have quite a few solar lights around now. On the two main paths and I do have some solar globes in the veg garden, which are just for looks as I'm not really out there when it's dark.

[@adz5bneweng589]

Looks like a sugar maple to me. In MA, the sugar maples turn orange to red, whereas the nasty Norway maples turn yellow.

[@lindagolembieski7405]

Can't you spray with safer soap or mix Dawn and water spray ?😮

[@burgerboot]

FYI, Sunshine Ligustrum is zone 6 hardy, not 7.

[@bonniejackson7476]

Hi Erin where do you purchase your dahlias? Thanks

[@saraholson790]

why don't you put wildflowers or some meadow turf on the other side of the driveway where you have the grass

[@lauriedashner2225]

What will you do with the banana plants? I mean how big is your garage? There’s no way I could keep one and bring in my house… I’m in Va in zone 7a… so I’ve held off on getting something like that

[@alice_rabbit8345]

She cuts it down!

[@TheImpatientGardener]

@@lauriedashner2225 They get cut down to stumps and stores in cool, dark storage with the dahlia tubers. I’ve done some videos on it and I’m sure there will be one when they come done this year.

[@JacquiQ]

🧡💛🍁🍂

[@pollykinney5776]

how about Jack in the Pulpit? would that grow by the creek?

[@TheImpatientGardener]

Oh yes, and it does ... I have it all over the place here. Charming little guy.

[@dc0145a]

A really interesting podcast regarding stressed plants and pests correlation is No till flowers podcast: magical brix number with Dr Tom Dykstra

[@saraholson790]

try samabor or raven geranium

[@lisac.8266]

It looks like a day lily to me. 🤷🏼‍♀️

[@lilyw.1788]

I think that’s a liriope ?

[@TheImpatientGardener]

A dead giveaway that it's not liriope (in addition to the fact that I've never grown it here and it's not native, nor does it particularly like growing here so it's rarely seen) is the pleated leaves, which are not found on Liriope.

[@jeannettejohnson2572]

Important FYI…I just watched KZbin from Steph of Hooked and Rooted about how poisonous Monkshead is…I did some more searching and it’s highly poisonous to dogs and humans! Be careful with those sweet dogs of yours💕

[@TheImpatientGardener]

Yep. That’s why it’s in the middle of the garden but I appreciate you checking.

[@Flower_hoarder]

🍁🪴🍂🌳🍁🌲🍂

[@taylorswf23]

I vote for a nice fat oval of grass in that area, and snuggling it in