Weekly garden stroll 🌿 May 5, 2024 🌿 Everything is popping!

Feeling good about finally making some progress in the garden, and just in time as this early spring just keeps trucking.
This one is a little rambling today, thanks for bearing with me.
Enjoy this unedited stroll through the garden.
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[@marieparsons-x9o]

Love the coral door. Thanks for keeping it real. So many gardens on utube are perfect and that is not real life. Enjoy your channel so much.

[@greenthumbelina7331]

Erin, I love your channel. I especially enjoy this laid-back style of filming. My grandsons (30-ish) were here yesterday and one of them told me that I was like a bunny on crack, hopping around my garden and showing them everything that has new growth or has started to bloom. I love your excitement, it's contagious. 🥰💐🦋

[@denisewade6439]

I can relate!

[@jenniferhooks2454]

I can relate too! If I'm showing someone my garden, I zigzag around all over the place because there's something wonderful to see.

[@michelebushnik2874]

Welcome back dear banana!❤😂❤🎉

[@denisek5208]

I am LOVING these new videos! Thank you for sharing your garden with us.

[@jeanioneill6610]

Love taking a walk with you in your garden.Great to see so many flowers popping through the soil in the spring.

[@cyhomer]

Erin, you’re so right about edging…I have finally finished all my edging (sidewalks, bed edges, turf next to the street, etc.)..wow,mit makes all the difference.

[@duke2011ful]

WOW on the climbing hydrangea!

[@bobbiechinn9578]

Lilly of the valley issue?!?! Favorite! 💚💚💚

[@beverleysimmons7885]

You make me totally smile. Thank you. 🇨🇦💝

[@gingercashman3289]

love the rambling! I don't know how you remember all of those plant names. Love watching your channel.

[@TheBking01]

Hey Erin love the stroll Thur your gardens. I love seeing the different plants & flowers you have,they are beautiful. My garden is containers and everything is is blooming & taking off. Thanks Erin for your videos 😊

[@YAorNAmovies]

Everything is looking great 🎉 including in screen door.

[@bonniejackson7476]

I love the ramble! Thanks 😊

[@patmarchand7363]

I just love you’re videos you are so knowledgeable easy to listen to and the plants you have are just unique love it ❤🇨🇦

[@dawndawn6946]

Great ramblings! So relatable!❤

[@ashleyamelia08]

I love to see the garden waking up lol. there are stunning variegated cast iron plants already available for anyone interested!!

[@dindyuhl2727]

Yay! Progress! I've heard the word before.

[@loispullen4049]

Glad to see you have Spring OCT like myself! Tis the season! 🤗🇨🇦

[@cherylt6888]

Enjoy your channel😊❤️thanks for garden tour . Looking forward to seeing what bananas do this season.

[@pcrice-lr2dn]

Thanks ,great tour 🌿🍃

[@angelaschettino1327]

Love your garden and the coral colored door!

[@carriefreund9037]

Love the new screen door!!!

[@jessicacook8186]

Omg that Cast Iron plant. I can't wait.

[@dannakuhr9718]

I love your excitement and joy when you walk around your garden. That's the way I feel, even when there are weeds. Things are growing!!

[@deeaustin379]

Love the screen door color!

[@rbrown2746]

Barnhaven primula seeds great. Mine are blooming so beautifully this year.

[@kasiacholewinska]

Erin, I hope those weekly strolls will be a regular part of your channel, love it! Spontaneous, uplifting, funny and REAL, as everything you share with us. Thank you!!

[@oxwoman8]

LOVE THE DOOR!

[@marycalardo7217]

Lov your garden walks. You start my day off .😊 Hang in there with hardy begonias Iam in zone 6 they don't come up until June. Happy gardening!

[@seedsaverdiane5636]

I have never deadheaded my Clethra. If you can tolerate last years spent bloom they will eventually fill in. Too many last years blooms from 10 plants in my garden to spend the time removing the spent blooms. I’m enjoying the tours of your beautiful space

[@TheImpatientGardener]

Thank you! I’m good with the spent blooms sticking around until it fills in.

[@martinlugus5499]

The weekly tours are a great innovation. The spontaneity is a key ingredient.

[@terrivance8750]

Erin, You keep talking about weeds. Got me thinkin'--perhaps it's not too early for another episode of "Wine & Weeds." 🤔😁

[@SpeedBump7807]

Yes...exactly what I was thinking. No complaining about weeds without a beverage.

[@michellemoilanen3261]

I love trillium and primula

[@kathijohnsonrock5856]

Great garden stroll, thank you. Plant names on the screen would be helpful as you talk about them. Hardy Begonia emerges very late, so yours may not be dead, although I know you planted them very late last season. We are in Madison, Wisconsin and have grown Hardy Begonia for many years. We could share a plant with you if you want one.

[@jillsimpson8716]

Just love your relatable approach to gardening. I live next door to the “lawn guy” who has a meticulously manicured lawn and hired landscaping. Always makes me feel so pathetic when I’m out planting my little seedlings I painstakingly grew all winter long, along with my more natural borders and dying trees. But I digress! You show me natural beauty in the garden and it inspires me to keep on doing what I do. Thank you so much!

[@KidCity1985]

Dying trees spread disease. Remove them if you can.

[@jcking6785]

Did you hear me gasp when you almost closed the screen door on the new banana?! Good catch!

[@kimpaynter]

I love rambles I love the coral door it pops how long is the neighbors construction going to take?

[@michelebushnik2874]

Welcome back dear banana❤😂❤!

[@gwen6518]

Erin I pre sprouted my dahlia tubers and was wondering if I can put them outside in my portable greenhouse that isn't heated. My last frost is around the 13th and the 14th starts 50 degrees at night. Love seeing your gardens and love theses laid back walks we get to take with you!!!

[@MsJordieLynn]

Spring is such an exciting time of the year. I love the new screen door color, so fun! Where are your greenhouses from?!

[@lisaf4300]

My perennial begonias come up very late. I am in 6b now 7a. I am just seeing some small signs of them. It has been unusually warm here in Pa. Don’t give up on them.

[@helennoble8785]

I really enjoy your ramblings. Soo excited for your banana plant - is the new one a baby from the original? I grew a banana last year but it did not survive the cold cellar spa? Anyway keep the updates coming, I always learn so much. FYI, I named my new kitten Fergus because he’s a Scottish Fold and it seemed suitable. 😊

[@hitecmom]

My favorite format out of all the gardening channels! Love to stroll along with you.

[@patternandcraft]

I wonder if you have a special variant of ostrich fern that naturally gets larger? Or just your climate, day length etc is especially conducive to them thriving and growing large? In south eastern PA ostrich ferns definitely only get about 3 feet tall- I have them in my garden beds as well as growing wild, see them at historic homes, see them at local arboretums and display gardens… same size, never much taller than waist high, if that. So interesting!!

[@patricialucas6358]

Super fun and inspiring walkabout! I love to garden! I’m so happy I love to garden! Are your Impatient Gardener garb available?

[@Edu_Kate]

I'm glad to see I'm not alone in still cleaning up my garden beds. Friday, I made a list of all the chores for the day knowing I wouldn't get half of them crossed off. I even spontaneously did some lawn maintenance (my yard is suddenly overrun with tiny creeping Charlie plants). By evening (yes, I spent 9 hours in the garden) I was quite pleased by my progress. Now it's a gorgeous day so I need to get out there to complete my chore list so I can start a new one. For several years, I've said I wanted to divide a couple tightly packed hostas next to my driveway thinking it would be easier to tackle the job when they were just emerging sprouts. I forgot how dense their roots are. I dug one variety planted close to my 'Do Tell' peony that's starting to spread after 15+ years. I couldn't lift the clump until I attacked it with my multipurpose trowel sawing it into smaller clumps. Amazing how a plant expands in size once lifted out of the ground. I planted a couple nice-size clumps between my 3-peony hedge and sort of scooped dirt over the remaining clumps because by then I was too tired to pot them. A good soaking rain kept them alive. I transplanted my lilac aucuba to a new berm amended with 3 bags of Land & Sea compost. I hope it does better in that sunnier spot. While I love lilacs, my housing development is named "Lilac Way," I'm growing this variety for the interesting variegated foliage. Great Garden Plants sent me a big box the other day so I have lots of work to prepare the places I'll plant these new guys. So much soil prep to complete first...weeds everywhere. Quack grass is the bain of my life, soon to be followed by crab grass if I don't finish spreading grass seed. Keep showing us your walkabout videos. In one day, tulips I'd planted last year went from barely open to absolute gorgeousness. I keep taking photos then deleting them as they progress into their full beauty. I love seeing everything waking up.

[@jkniederberger5390]

Strangely, weeding my flower beds often brings me joy. It can be very meditative and soothing. Walking around every day and seeing what is blooming brings me great joy. The first cup of coffee or tea in the morning, when the cats and I are the only ones awake is a favorite time of my day.

[@JWallywiz]

"Maple seedlings everywhere", well I'm glad I'm not the only one suffering with this issue this year! I have them by the hundreds in every bed. What a pain pulling them out. My neighbors Maple tree had so many helicopters this year, thousands and thousands of them came down....guess it's no surprise there are little trees growing out of control. Love the color on the screen door.

[@janetorello5716]

I love the rambles! It is the best way to see the progression of the plants. Makes me want to try the things I haven’t grown.

[@janetleeharrison]

100% agree! These are the best videos, Erin! I have a better sense of your property and where everything is with these rambles. It feels like a true personal tour with a neighbor complete with normal garden rambles.🥰 Keep doing these, PLEASE!🔥

[@CollegiateApparel]

“Big Pot Energy” 😂😂😂

[@dustyflats3832]

You wonder where you will plant and I wonder, do I have enough fencing to be able to plant. I tried this year to plant coneflower and extras on a path without fence and by the next day the rabbits ate the edges. I fenced it and they came back to eat the rest and weren’t happy. Your video was 2 weeks ago and I still have snaps, ect to get planted. Trying the Madame Butterfly and several other varieties and hope they winter over like some last year. The heat here in my garden yesterday was unbearable at 94F just northwest of you and the plants were transpiring and we tend to not get much rain here. Alert days for Monday and Tuesday for severe storms and wonder if I can finish planting. 😂 right, finish planting 😂. 😮you keep mentioning lily of the valley issue and I have a couple-I’m nervous as it reminds me of those hideous hostas that I can’t get rid of. I’m with you on a herbicide at this point and I garden organically. I’ve had some great surprises this year so far like a return of plants I thought were gonners and yesterday a pink Columbine 👏🏼. 🎉the BIGGEST Surprise🎉 I have a peony that has BUDS!! I have tried to get the peonies that were here before me to bloom for a decade!! I bought new ones two years ago and was just about to give up thinking there is just some reason they won’t bloom here and TaDa! I just planted alliums last year and noticed this year the tips turn yellow and others say that’s what they do before bloom and I thought it was our freezing temps. Thx for the tour!

[@marymetz5312]

I'm really enjoying these garden strolls.Such a typical tour we gardeners like to give to those who come by to visit.

[@paulotto2475]

Good , hardy Primulas are easy to miss because nurseries have discontinued growing the old fashioned forms. The grocery store / big box plants are worthless for quality and reliability

[@chrispetersen6402]

Erin, dracaena ‘Janet Craig’ has really dark green leaves.

[@tbryant1966]

❤❤❤

[@traceykenning1744]

Hey Erin, I love your tours ❤ could you tell me where you get your pop-up greenhouses from. I'm in southern Ontario 5a, so I need to get a start on things.. Cheers

[@KathrynJohnston-s9t]

I would love too know more about your greenhouses. Who makes them and do you have problems with them falling down? I have had ones that are just one rack wide and they've come crashing down with Chicago weather and squirrels.

[@joandavis3586]

I love seeing week to week growth

[@kasiacholewinska]

“I guess it’s official I have an issue” 😂 you rock Erin, so funny 😆

[@judymckerrow6720]

Thanks Erin. Spring is my FAVORITE time of year ! The rebirth of my garden ❤️💐💚🙃

[@jessi330]

Yay I love these videos. That dracaena is not Janet Craig - Janet's plain medium green. Looks like you've got Lemon lime Dracaena warneckii. I had beautiful primula for about two years then it just doesn't come back.

[@TheImpatientGardener]

I thought Lemon Lime was the variegated one? I've grown that before, but none of these ever come with cultivar tags. Too light to be Janet Craig, huh?

[@karenh.7086]

Erin, you are spoiling us and Thankyou🙂🙂🙂

[@MrsFusion]

The unfurling ferns were my favorite from todays walk! Thanks Erin!

[@laurenwellman2516]

The maple seedlings this year are the bane of my existence this spring- they are everywhere! Question- do you clean out leaf litter from the crowns of your hydrangeas?

[@TheImpatientGardener]

I try to but I’m far from fastidious about it.

[@laurenwellman2516]

@@TheImpatientGardener Good to know. I didn’t get as early a jump on it this year and they are leafing out and I don’t want to damage them and any potential blooms in the process. They seem happy enough.

[@reneekidwell3147]

This makes me so happy! Everything is looking wonderful!❤️❤️❤️

[@cindijohnson7282]

I love seeing your gardens and listening to you ramble!

[@marianhintz9981]

I have tons of maple seedlings in my yard too!! Your yard is looking good !! Thanks. For sharing.

[@krismatson2137]

I have a few ostrich ferns in pots. Would I regret putting them in the ground if I don't have a large area like you for it to spread? My daughter's previous house had hundreds of them in the yard when they bought it - it was gorgeous but too many she said.

[@Findmeinthegarden1]

Thank you!

[@denisewade6439]

Yay! The banana is thriving! Thank you , Mr More Patient for babysitting the banana plant!

[@heatherw.2751]

I love the new screen door color!!! Question about Canadian wild ginger… I’m in NC 8b and a friend gave me a clump out of her garden. I planted it a few weeks ago and it’s alive but seems to be a bit floppy. It’s in morning shade and afternoon sun but only from about 4-6 pm. I’ve never grown it so I was wondering if there’s any advice anyone can give? Thank!!

[@cindyclark3969]

I love Lilly of the Valley. Does it spread too much for you?

[@sheila1961]

beautiful stroll, thank you Erin!

[@isabellentxawm6773]

Hi Erin, do you remember where you bought your greenhouse from?

[@kfaulknerstudio]

Your house and property are lovely. I’m enjoying the informal garden walks.

[@mistygeller3193]

I love it! Scattered or not, messy, I don’t care, your gardens are so incredible and you crack me up! Thank you sharing! And I have to agree with you on dealing with invasive plants. Gotta do what you have to, safely of course. 😊

[@neldahargo5933]

I really like the way you present frequent updates.

[@emkn1479]

Big pot energy 😂 I absolutely LOVE the natural damp woodland area 🥹 the stuff of dreams… I see you your ambassador allium foliage and raise you allium karataviense 😏 PS Did I happen to maybe see an address at some point? 🚫

[@colleenframarin655]

Thank you Erin, the garden is looking great !

[@kaystinebrink1220]

Love your tours!!!!!

[@Fabdanc]

I don't think you should feel badly about using herbicides sparingly and responsibly and for target species. I have even seen some experts recommending imidacloprid for control of woolly adelgid.

[@sherrybrown4340]

I love this format - it helps me to see the garden and individual plants in stages, and not just when everything is perfect. Love watching you as you make discoveries.

[@jayneteal-jeffery6283]

Love your screen door reno. Will be beautiful when the flowers show it off! Thanks for the walk.

[@ivayork6178]

Just to let you know, I absolutely LOVE your videos

[@momcation9786]

Hi Erin you’re so blessed with a beautiful garden! You’re such an inspiration! Love it!🌷

[@christinestefanides2494]

These garden walks are one of my favorite things, in my garden as well as your beautiful garden!

[@8helenjhouston8]

Squirrel!

[@patternandcraft]

Is ambassador alum a plant type or bulb type (like does the foliage stay or die when they flower like other bulb style alliums)?

[@suzannebartow6390]

I love the rambling garden strolls......please keep it up.

[@ricaverus9589]

Erin, I loved this video. I've watched many of yours (first-time commenter), but there was something about this one that stood out for me and that I particularly enjoyed. I think that it felt so...relaxed, and peaceful, I guess? Kind of hard to explain why. It made me feel peaceful about my own gardens and not anxious about everything that needs to be done and feeling like it's not pretty if it's not perfect. And you give me kind of "by the way" information (does that make sense?) that is really helpful to me. Thank you, and God bless you.

[@heatheruiz]

These videos are great! Thanks for letting us experience spring in your garden!

[@rhiannongomer5867]

Strolling with you is informative and consoling in equal measure. I feel so much better at being so late with everything in my Welsh garden. Having so much rain and cold winds has delayed any work, but getting out there to start makes me feel a little more encouraged. So thank you for sharing the rough with the smooth.

[@jenniferspoor2402]

Loving these videos!

[@janzatovich6677]

love these relaxed strolls and updates.

[@richbishop7896]

Love the door color!

[@doreen4405]

You have a gorgeous piece of property and a beautiful home!!❤

[@dwohio8283]

Great progress in your garden. Good job 👍

[@kim-is9tq]

Loving the weekly tour around your space! Thanks for doing what you do!!!

[@terrivance8750]

BTW, Erin, Does owning 3 banana plants mean you're just a collector... or are you a Minion? 😉😆

[@joettedignanweir6893]

Erin, I’m really enjoying these strolls - thank you for doing them. I really like your color choice on the screen door, too.

[@terrivance8750]

Lovely tour, Erin--thank you! 😊