West Terrace Garden Tour | Summer Maintenance: P. Allen Smith (2019)

[@barbpoage4935]

Loved walking through your garden this time of year to watch how you prune back plants in order to have more blooms in the fall. Would love to be there in person at this time to learn all the tricks to making a garden look better. Sometime, as our gardens "tire", so do we and we need that new start and hope for more beauty to come in the future. Thanks for bringing us along and educating us along the way!

[@deaconfelix7539]

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[@luislandry5568]

@Deacon Felix Instablaster =)

[@deaconfelix7539]

@Luis Landry thanks so much for your reply. I got to the site through google and I'm trying it out now. Takes quite some time so I will get back to you later with my results.

[@deaconfelix7539]

@Luis Landry it worked and I now got access to my account again. I am so happy! Thank you so much, you saved my ass !

[@luislandry5568]

@Deacon Felix Glad I could help =)

[@pamketron]

Your home and gardens are everybody’s dream! So many beautiful flowers, shrubs and trees. The view of the river is amazing with all the beauty surrounding it. I love the pink salvia. Will be getting some of those seeds. Just a nice bright pop of color! Thanks for letting us walk through your garden with you. Happy Day!🌻💕🦋🌸🦜☀️🐝

[@Cenepk101]

Awesome !!! Adore you, Allen !!!

[@reader649]

So beautiful and a garden that helps wildlife especially pollinators. I think I am hearing Tinkling Ground Crickets under your Muscadine tunnel and beyond. Find their song so soothing and evocative in late summer and fall. Thanks so much Allen for how you cultivate lovely beauty and a gentle thoughtfulness into the world, which so desperately needs it now.

[@amyjones2490]

Thanks so much for sharing your drying house!

[@carolem9134]

Nice tour,thank you for sharing 🙂

[@micheleyates3625]

Thank you for a beautiful and informative garden tour. Always so peaceful.

[@MyQuaintCottage]

Such a beautiful garden space. 🤗

[@samuraibushido7077]

Absolutely lovely and informative. 😊 Your garden tours really is a Great escape for me especially the Sunday tours!!! These really enriches my heart and soul!!!

[@karenross3457]

I am looking forward to seeing the fall and winter flower arrangements with flowers you dried.

[@PAllenSmith]

Karen Ross hmmm... sounds like a good project. 🙂

[@karenross3457]

@@PAllenSmithThat would be great. I always enjoy seeing you decorate for the holidays. Thanks to you, I began planting shrubs and trees for the foliage they provide for holiday decorating.

[@annierampersad3982]

The West Terrace is such a beautiful area. Thanks for the tour. Zinnias, sunflower and marigold seeds do germinate quite quickly in Trinidad.👍🌼🌻🌸

[@anahidheemstra8077]

It is beautiful I like the green walls and the tunnel also I like tge room where you hang the plants or seeds to dry great video thank you Anna

[@Pomp67]

A really incredible place!.... Thank you for supporting wildlife! I've been a fan for many years.

[@PAllenSmith]

Pomp67 thank you for your support! 💚

[@lindaparker6102]

So serene & beautiful ! Thank you ! Awesome garden !

[@bobbeduran9277]

Thanks for the tour. Just this morning I opened my container that hold my seed packets. Laid them all out for this fall/spring sowing and come to realize that I will not have enough room in my raised beds. I may have to I do some container gardening. This will be the first fall planting in my new raised beds and I can't wait.

[@ritawilkinson401]

I certainly enjoy watching your videos--very informative. You have a beautiful place.

[@loraineleuschke4186]

Great tour. Thank you again for teaching me things.

[@rainydays1105]

Just lovely! Everyone needs a seed house, how cool is that? Thanks for sharing. The statue of the eagle is magnificent.

[@PAllenSmith]

Rainy Days thank you! 💚

[@jeanneritter5315]

Wonderful tour & tips! Love the tunnel. I bet the birds really enjoy it too.

[@lindabarnes5299]

Can't wait to see you in October!!

[@PAllenSmith]

Linda Barnes yay! You must say hi. 👋🏻

[@knightbook1003]

I want a huge Agave so bad now bcuz of yours!

[@PAllenSmith]

MokiRockOut do it!

[@martinagonzalez6434]

Thank you for inspiring me with your garden landscape and you always give great information ! 🌿🌻

[@PAllenSmith]

Martyna Gonzalez thank you! 💚

[@jackiehorsley9263]

love your garden Its always so pretty to look at

[@landissandel6137]

Beautiful, Allen. Can you pls explain again what you used to dry the seed pods on the Chaste trees.

[@lettersandlove]

Fantastic info. I just posted a short video about cutting some things back. Thanks so much for sharing!

[@patricialeonard9622]

I have a huge loosestrife plant that several species of bumblebees love as do the Japanese beetle so a few times in the morning and evening I go out with my rubber gloves and pick the beetles off the plant and the bumblebees just buzz around me. I make sure I wear my reading glasses to I don’t pick the wrong insect.

[@lisamartinez6899]

Love this

[@hipdogdsv]

I absolutely love Vitex and have grown it for decades. But...I've never been able to germinate the seeds. Have you had success propagating Vitex?????? If so, please share.

[@rajpatel23240]

Beautiful..

[@jolyndaj]

Absolutely lovely and informative. 😊

[@GardeningSpirit]

Agreed!! bumble bees are always curious when i'm gardening but they never come after me... i even talk to them. like i do w/ visiting cats, the birds.. :-)

[@lulubell711]

Love it

[@chosen1one930]

You might find crazy,mwe have princess feathers in Virginia and every year they reach 6 to 8 feet fall. My neighbor who loves them, which I really dont care for them due to the bee activity they bring, says its the highest she has ever seen those plants grow.

[@Wazupu]

What flying species was that at 0:17? Interesting!

[@PAllenSmith]

Ruby Arias it is a hummingbird hawk-moth.

[@sherry2836]

What was that flying creature at 0:16?! Looked like a hummingbird but not!

[@PAllenSmith]

Sherry 2 it’s a hummingbird hawk-moth.

[@sherry2836]

@@PAllenSmith Oh my! Looks too heavy to fly, lol. Would hate to come across its caterpillar. Thank you for prompt reply.

[@PAllenSmith]

Sherry 2 they’re actually super tiny.

[@sarahhopkins9412]

Some are listed as a sphinx moth which is the tomato horn worm or tobacco horn worm, which is quite big if you've had any on a tomato plant munching your leaves off.

[@PAllenSmith]

Sarah Hopkins you’re absolutely correct! Go check out my Instagram feed. We posted a longer video of this guy and go into a deeper description.

[@ElizabethM824]

Hi Allen. In one of your previous videos you featured Heritage raspberries. I have some Heritage plants that are beginning to set fruit now in their first year. My question is, since they are an “everbearing” type, would I cut back the canes that fruited this year in the winter? I can’t find any info online on caring for this variety so hoping you have advice. Thanks!

[@bekahs-l1986]

Does your flowering quince get fruit? Mine has a couple on them I wasn't sure if it's alright to eat and if they are when or how to harvest them.

[@Cenepk101]

I got stump by 50 bumblebees when I inadvertently weed eated their hole in the ground . THEY STING DONT KID YOURSELF.