Planting Hollyhocks & Foxglove in Our Garden & In My Parent’s Garden! 💜🌸🌿 // Garden Answer

Summary

In this episode of Garden Answer, the host takes us on a journey through beautiful morning activities focused on planting Foxglove and Hollyhock flowers. The show begins with excitement as the host loads the gator with seedlings, ready to create a stunning floral landscape in both their garden and the host's parent's garden. These plants, with their cottage garden charm, promise to add vibrant colors and towering heights, as they are strategically placed across various garden sections. The video captures the joys of gardening, from playful early morning conversations about wildlife to the meticulous, yet rewarding task of planting, set against a backdrop of blooming tulips and daffodils.

Highlights

• Hollyhocks and Foxgloves are the stars of today’s gardening adventure! 🌺
• The video kicks off with a whimsical discussion about owls and goats, setting a playful tone. 🦉🐐
• There’s immense satisfaction in arranging towering Hollyhocks strategically for the best visual impact. 🌿🏞️
• Tips on ensuring Hollyhocks don’t overrun the garden by seeding themselves; balance their growth! 🌼
• Seeing tulips unexpectedly in bloom adds to the day's gardening delight and inspiration. 🌷✨
• A lesson in balance: plant first-year bloomers in cutting gardens for immediate color, while second-year bloomers serve the flower beds. 🎨
• Involving family in planting extends the experience beyond gardening, fostering cherished memories. 👩‍👧‍👦

Key Takeaways

• Foxgloves and Hollyhocks bring an enchanting cottage vibe to any garden. 🏡
• The host plans to plant varieties that bloom in the first and second years, ensuring continuous floral displays. 🌸
• Tips on planting: Hollyhocks thrive in full sun but will reseed if not cut back; plan their height carefully in a flower bed. ☀️🌿
• Creating a perennial section in the Cut Flower Garden by strategically placing Foxgloves for future blooms. 🌼
• Utilizing tools like augers for efficient planting and compost to enhance soil quality and plant growth. 🛠️🌱
• It's joyful family collaboration while gardening, showing how shared outdoor projects can bond families. 👨‍👩‍👦

Overview

The day begins with a whimsical air as laughter about potential wildlife sightings, like owls or goats, blends with the organization of planting tools and seedlings. The star guests of the day—Foxgloves and Hollyhocks—promise not only beauty but timeless charm to the family's garden and cutting flower areas.

As the host moves through various garden spots, each flower placement seems strategic yet artistic, envisioning upcoming vibrant floral expanses. The choice of colors, like Camelot lavender and Dalmatian peach for the Foxgloves, complements existing blooms, including surprise tulip sightings adding to the visual delight.

The gardening day concludes with teamwork as family members assemble to plant rows with lively conversation and shared tasks. Efficient use of augers and compost fosters a thriving growth setting for these cherished perennials, ensuring that next year's garden is equally, if not more, vibrant and rewarding.

Chapters

• 00:00 - 02:30: Introduction and Garden Plan The introduction discusses a visit to The Secret Garden, filled with imagination and curiosity about what animals might be found there, such as owls, goats, and hawks. The main focus of the day is planting, specifically Fox Glove and Holly Hawks, with the narrator preparing to transplant seedlings.
• 02:30 - 05:00: Planting Hollyhocks in the Garden In this chapter titled 'Planting Hollyhocks in the Garden', the narrator discusses the various plants they are preparing to plant in their garden and additional ones to be planted in their parents' garden. The selection includes several varieties of Foxglove plants, such as Camelot lavender, Camelot white, Camelot cream, Dalmatian Peach, Apricot Beauty, and Sugar Plum. They also mention Hollyhocks, specifically the Chestnut Brown variety, indicating a day dedicated to cultivating a diverse botanical array.
• 05:00 - 07:00: Planning Foxglove Planting The chapter titled "Planning Foxglove Planting" discusses the speaker's experiences and plans with planting various flowers, including champagne golden yellow and Halo apricot species. They mention that certain plants stayed in their smaller containers and appear in good condition. A blackeyed Susan also appears to have joined the group unexpectedly. The speaker appreciates the cottage vibe that these plants bring and expresses a desire to plant Hollyhocks in large groups within their flower beds. Additionally, they talk about their plan to plant first-year blooming foxgloves.
• 07:00 - 09:30: Hollyhock Planting Continued The chapter describes the expansion of a cut flower garden, highlighting the dedication of a 60ft row to planting Fox Glove flowers. This includes three rows within the 60ft space for a total of 180 feet of Fox Glove, creating a visually appealing display. The narrator plans to plant second-year blooming Fox Gloves in flower beds as they don't wish to allocate space in the perennial garden for non-blooming plants this year. Although Fox Gloves are biennials and not true perennials, they often self-seed, offering hopes for natural propagation within the landscape.
• 09:30 - 13:00: Sugar Plum and Apricot Beauty Planting The chapter titled 'Sugar Plum and Apricot Beauty Planting' discusses planting in a cut flower garden, specifically in the perennial section where plants can reseed and create a perennial crop effect. The narrator stands at their South Garden, noting the height of hollyhocks and the need to place them strategically in the flower bed. They also admire blooming tulips, expressing surprise at their stunning appearance. The chapter touches upon considerations for planting tall perennials like hollyhocks that can reach eight feet in height.
• 13:00 - 18:00: Planting in the Cut Flower Garden This chapter discusses the strategic planting of flowers in a cut flower garden. The focus is on positioning taller plants behind others to maintain aesthetic appeal while ensuring they still receive ample sunlight. The chapter mentions the beauty of daffodils and the recent mulching of the area, which creates an ideal environment for planting, albeit with some potential mess from the use of an augur.
• 18:00 - 26:30: Visit to Parents' Garden The narrator visits their parents' garden to undertake a landscaping project. They express a desire to be careful around new mulch and have grown a significant amount of 'Double Champagne' flowers, with plans to share them with their mom. The plan involves planting these flowers and then moving on to another area of the garden to complete other tasks. The narrator also considers using land and sea compost for improving the garden soil as they plant perennials in the garden.
• 26:30 - 29:00: Conclusion and Reflections The conclusion and reflections chapter discusses evening activities with kids, involving riding around in a gator while planting, and the importance of maintaining the garden. The narrator reflects on the convenience of planting without extensive land preparation, like top dressing, and shares a practical gardening tip about checking the root systems in plants started in smaller trays and later transferred.

Planting Hollyhocks & Foxglove in Our Garden & In My Parent’s Garden! 💜🌸🌿 // Garden Answer Transcription

• 00:00 - 00:30 when we go to The Secret Garden what are we gonna find I don't know would you think there's an owl think there's an owl there might be an owl yeah or goat there might be some goats too that would be fun or maybe some Hawks some hwks there might be some I bet there are hwks HKS hwks have fun okay baby girl hey guys how's it going it is a beautiful morning it's so gorgeous out here today I've got the gator loaded up with things that we started from seed we're going to be focusing on Fox Glove and Holly Hawks today I've got a lot of both of those
• 00:30 - 01:00 things so whatever we don't plant in our garden today I'm going to take out to my parents garden and plant so it's just sort of a preview here we've got all of our Fox Glove right here we've got six different varieties four of which are first year Bloomers so we have the Camelot lavender Camelot white Camelot cream and this one is dalmatian Peach then we've got apricot Beauty second-year Bloomer and sugar plum secondy year Bloomer and then for Holly Hawks we've got chestnut brown right here and here we've got the uh double
• 01:00 - 01:30 champagne golden yellow which I didn't up plant these so these stayed in their smaller containers they look pretty good and Halo apricot and one blackeyed Susan that made it in here somehow we'll just let them grow together see what happens I love both of these types of plants I mean they both have such a cottage vibe to them and I want to have Hol hawks just in kind of big groups out in our flower beds and then the first year blooming Fox Club I going to be putting
• 01:30 - 02:00 in our cut flower garden and I'm dedicating an entire 60ft row which that includes three three rows in that 60ft row so 180 fet of Fox Glove I think that's going to be absolutely stunning and then we're going to plant the secondy year blooming Fox Glove out in the flower beds just because I don't really want to dedicate space in our perennial section of our Cut Flower Garden for something that's not going to bloom this year but we'll enjoy them out in our landscape now they are bials they're not technically perennials but they usually uh seed themselves around some kind kind of hoping that the ones
• 02:00 - 02:30 we put In The Cut Flower Garden in The Perennial section do seed themselves so that we have kind of a perennial crop going on but I am standing out here the back side of the South Garden because you know Hol Hawks get quite tall so when wherever I plant them they're going to have to be kind of backed up in a flower bed and oh my goodness oh I didn't even notice that these were in bloom look at these tulips those are stunning dang might help to see the flower beds from the front so when you have a perennial plant like a holly hop that wants to get you know 8T
• 02:30 - 03:00 tall or you know somewhere in that range we're going to want to bump them back in kind of groups back in here behind other things I so I think that'll look really pretty back here they'll still get full sun in this area and they'll bring um a bunch of color during the summer time gosh these daffodils are pretty you can see where the mulch line is just started to mulch in this area uh so this is kind of the perfect area to plant because you know we can make a big old mess with the augur but I might sneak some in here too
• 03:00 - 03:30 and just try to be careful not May a big old mess I hate messing up brand new mulch so the double Champagnes I actually grew the most of those because I knew my mom would really enjoy that color in particular so I grew 24 for us and 24 for her uh and I still feel like that's probably too many to put in so I don't know we're going to just wail into this project see how many actually go in then we'll head to the cut flower garden and finish up in there and I do think I would like to bring in the land and sea compost because I have been planting some perennials which I'll show you already I'm just trying to do like a
• 03:30 - 04:00 flat an evening when we have the kids out here playing I'll just put a flat in the gator we'll ride around I'll pop a few plants in and then we'll keep riding uh just so that we can stay on top of it but that means I don't go through all the trouble of getting the land and sea out and you know top dressing so I've got some of that work to do as well so I think I would like to start with the double Champagnes right here let's check out the root system of these you know we started these in the smaller trays and then I up potted them a few weeks ago roots are coming out the bottom that's good
• 04:00 - 04:30 yep oh they need a little bit of a drink but they look really good super healthy plants loving it I'm also going to be using some biotone however Holly hwks are super tough and they don't need a lot of fuss but I want to start them off with some good fertilizer and we're going to be using our auger one thing to keep in mind about Holly Hawks in particular is one they are tough like I just mentioned they're tough tough plants they like full sun they can take a lot of abuse but wherever you plant them if you do not cut off the blooms before they form seeds like the bent
• 04:30 - 05:00 flowers if you don't cut those off you will have Holly Hawks until the end of your days because well at least we do here I don't know if you guys have the same thing but uh conditions are favorable for them here and they just Thrive uh we could have a field of Holly Hawks and probably never touch them and they would just be as happy as can be got to love that type of flower so here we go guys [Music]
• 05:00 - 05:30 Hol Hawks are done I thought we'd take a
• 05:30 - 06:00 look at where they all ended up I only
• 06:00 - 06:30 planted one variety over here on this
• 06:30 - 07:00 side it's the is it shaders golden double yellow they are so gorgeous I had 24 of those seedlings so I just planted them in two groups there's one group right here which I think when those are in bloom next to the Blue Spruce they're going to be so so pretty and they're
• 07:00 - 07:30 kind of a soft creamy yellow we've got a lot of purple and pink right back here in this corner so I think that'll be a really pretty blend and the other group of them ended up right in here right in the middle of all these tulips so hopefully this spot is done I mean you know we'll have the bulbs in the spring come up and then the Holly Hawks take over afterward I think it'll look really pretty from this angle as well because we'll have the grouping of yellow and then the grouping of yellow back there just kind of tying it together then of course we'll have lots of stuff in between let's head that direction for all the other varieties they're all kind
• 07:30 - 08:00 of in this area right here now in this spot you know last year we had a whole bunch of stuff over here potted things oh my goodness I missed one Speaking of potted things for crying out loud okay hold on I'll take a look at the root system looks nice there's worms all over in the soil out here as well I love it okay that's better anyway we had a whole bunch of shrubs and stuff out here that we were holding for projects you can see kind of the remnants we have these Flame Willows
• 08:00 - 08:30 um that will go to a new home here pretty quick and that'll empty that spot out but it made it to where we couldn't really plant anything in here last year so it's so fun to be able to start putting some things in here and then we'll be bringing in some nice compost to top dress but I'm going for impact in this area I've got some pillar hibiscus right in here there's three of them and then swinging back behind them and kind of coming out in this group it's a mixture of the double champagne and the Halo apricot I think those two colors are going to go beautifully together I think it's going to be a gorgeous site
• 08:30 - 09:00 out here take a second to look at this Quan and Cherry though oh my goodness it is rewarding us for keeping it we planted this tree up in our front garden before we demolished the garden and Chad actually dug it up and moved it out here for us and it's done really well it's kind of growing at a weird Lane we tried to correct it but I don't know it's blooming it's pretty Centura double blue lilac anyway from this side you'll see kind of the big group and then the the swoop back behind
• 09:00 - 09:30 those hibiscus rest are down here okay we've got another group of the double champag right back in here so you can see we're going to have to remove that uh Alaskan Cedar it's a green arrow variety and I think it's pretty much a goner I want to replace it with the same thing though I think I think it just maybe we need put a little bit too much drip on it or something but we're going to try to kind of excavate the area when we dig the new hole see what's going on uh but that variety The Green Arrow stays four to 5T which would be perfect
• 09:30 - 10:00 back here uh but anyway we've got the double champagne that go kind of back around this witch to blue juniper I think that'll be a beautiful big statement right there and then we have two groupings of the chestnut brown first one is right here I left a little space because we do want to put like a few really skinny Evergreens right in here uh but I think that's going to be beautiful backing the agust staki that's right in here which gets quite large and then there's a whole bunch of dayes
• 10:00 - 10:30 right in here and I can't remember if they're yellow or orange I could look up a picture to see but either way I thought that putting the chestnut brown back here would be a prettier contrast than trying to put the like creamy champagne with like a you know a brighter orange or a brighter yellow I didn't think that that would be as nice so I think that'll be a really great look back there and then another group of the chestnut brown right in this little section a smaller grouping just right in here have some nice vertical interest in this bed some of the ment and tulip are starting to bloom I cannot
• 10:30 - 11:00 wait until they bloom right here because they are going to look so spectacular with the Luca gims those colors together oh it's going to be so pretty so that's it for the Holly Hawks in our garden I've got 24 Holly Hawks to take to my parents uh Garden this evening I think we'll run out and do that but I want to do the in flower bed the two second-year blooming Fox Glove next before we run to the cut flower garden so that would be this one and this one these will be easy holes to dig actually all of these will be I'm going to switch to our skinnier augur
• 11:00 - 11:30 and this just Zips perfectly sized holes for these little these little cells it's a really sweet little plant isn't it oh that one's not so sweet not doing it is it nope so we only have 23 of the sugar plum [Music]
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• 12:00 - 12:30 sugar plum variety ended up right here I think it'll be really pretty there's kind of a little grouping there little grouping right there and they should show up behind everything else that's right in front of them and then the apricot Beauties went behind the chicken coop and here they are so there are six on this side of the fountain which we haven't started running yet we just kind of put that off because they're still they're working on the Bri patio right now and you know then after that's done
• 12:30 - 13:00 we can kind of get a better feel for the area I just didn't know if this was going to move I don't think it's going to but anyway the rest of them right here and then we've got pink lemonade baptisia in here there's some hibiscus witch hazel Delphinium a beautiful October Glory Maple uh some perennial geraniums basket of gold alysum it's just going to be really nice so these will just root in and grow this year uh foliage and next year we'll see some blooms that's the Hope anyway right I'm actually going to take a quick break before we go out to the cut flower
• 13:00 - 13:30 garden and I'm going to load up some hos links and get those hooked up so we can water everything that we planted today let's getting a little warm out
• 13:30 - 14:00 all right so we are out here Fox gloves and all in the perennial section of our Cut Flower Garden or what we're working toward anyway it won't be completely all perennials this year you know cuz we've got wheat growing right here sweet peas here so when all of this stuff is done we're going to take all of it out and then we'll end up with three more
• 14:00 - 14:30 planting rows in this space so each one of these are 60 ft long and what I typically do is I do three rows one on the outside of the runs of drip tape and one right down the center um so we can kind of maximize our space but it's still narrow enough to where you can reach over each one of the crops and harvest things really easily so I'm going to need to do a little cleanout here you can see I've got a remnants of a carrot crop from last year and there are some weeds and things like that along here I think the drip tape is working just fine though um you can kind of see where the soil is moist
• 14:30 - 15:00 underneath it I have been running it for the carrots because I wasn't sure if I was going to leave them there or not turns out we're not so I will pull those up we'll give them to the chickens and I've already got more carrots up in the raised bed garden so we're good there I brought out a rake a shovel a hula ho and a pair of loppers for us something else I need to work on so we'll get the row cleaned out first then I'll go through and put biotone starter fertilizer down I'll use the 2in augur we'll zip a bunch of holes in this area and then plant our Fox Glove and if we have time we will Top dress with land and sea so in the end it'll look sort of
• 15:00 - 15:30 like this this is the cut rose garden right here and see how we do the walking paths with more chunky Mulch and then we do land and sea in the planting Row the bark mulch is already down and we haven't done any land and sea in this whole area let me show you quick what we've got over here so I've got some Cula these are uh double mix and they are perennial we've got delphiniums we've got orium also called sea Holly blackeyed Susans Yaro and the strawberries will stay the back half of this is going to be filled with eona I
• 15:30 - 16:00 think that'll be perfect to have the eona seah Holly blackeyed Susans and uh the Yaro all in the same row because uh they all kind of have the same water requirements they're low water users also I did figure out we've got 72 of each one of these types of Fox Glove and I knew that many wouldn't fit in this row so I figured out you know we have 180 ft we're going to do um one foot spacing with these so we can use about 45 of each one of these varieties and then We'll have leftovers and those we can pop and flower beds we might tuck some in at my parents house
• 16:00 - 16:30 we'll see what happens with those [Music]
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• 17:30 - 18:00 [Music] [Music] all done with the fox gloves don't they look all tidy and neat in their row so we did have time to put Land and Sea down which really just makes everything look nice covering up that drip tape uh Camelot white is the one I started with and that one goes to here and then it
• 18:00 - 18:30 goes to Camelot cream and then Dalmatian Peach and finished with Camelot lavender and we have a whole bunch left to take out with the Holly Hawks to my parents house later on this evening so that is what we are going to do next [Music]
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• 19:00 - 19:30 all right guys we're here in my parents Garden we just planted 84 Fox Glove in this space right here and
• 19:30 - 20:00 honestly like they might be planted a little close together but they're not too awful close together it's going to be so gorgeous this is a mix of white cream and Peach and this is in what my mom has called The Cutting Garden for a long time because it used to be there used to be a lot of different types of cut flowers in here like what Cosmos and I'm going to shade you here you go uhhuh um Cosmos definium you mean what's going to be in this bed well are they still in
• 20:00 - 20:30 there the cosmos and delphiniums oh no no but I'm going to put some back okay cuz it's kind of morphed Through The Years a bit well because you know we'll have all Sun so you do that and then you'll grow a tree in there it's all shade then the then the tree falls down in a windstorm that right there is a true story and then then you're back to a sun Garden back to Sun yeah so anyway I think it's going to be an absolutely stunning show and all three of these varieties will Bloom this year which is going to be so fun and the fact that they're this size so
• 20:30 - 21:00 nice we were able just to zip zip zip the holes in the ground and then my mom planted this container while I was uh augg the holes there's some white bopa peachy keen super Bea a purple fountain grass and some type of super bells in here it's kind of orangey real pretty and mom there's three of them we missed we missed three and you watered [Laughter] them dad and Aaron are troubleshooting drip and they're heading down to the
• 21:00 - 21:30 secret garden what hey what are we going to go see when we go to The Secret Garden what are we going to find I don't know would you think there's an owl you think there's an owl there might be an owl some goats there might be some goats too that would be fun or maybe some hwks some hwks there might be some I bet there are hwks HKS hwks have fun okay baby girl they drive down the road in fact we'll probably see them here in a second they drive down here and this is kind of like The Secret Garden where there's usually some type of Wildlife
• 21:30 - 22:00 and and such anyway down here in what used to be the Orchard and now they've seated the same kind of grass that we put in our Orchard the RTF Fescue it looks so beautiful and I'm so excited to see what it looks like down in here and I know that they put in some loopin seeds and poppies or something else some other kind of seed mixed in with the RTF and they're already some bulbs here and so they're kind of working on a natural uh looking Meadow kind of like I'm trying to go for in our Orchard as well but of course has to have a little formal spot little boxwood hedge around
• 22:00 - 22:30 this little patio this is where our bunny Hutch used to be growing up we had we kept bunnies for a long time um we put the Camelot lavender Fox Glove right here I keep wanting to call them Snapdragon so if there's hesitation in between the variety and what the flower is that's what's going on I think Fox clubes are going to do great here cuz they're going to get Morning Sun and then they get some protection there's a swoop of I think these are Fire Light uh maybe the smaller version tidbit maybe hydrangeas and then there's
• 22:30 - 23:00 going to be some hostas and stuff in here and then we planted all of the double champagne Holly Hawks right in here there's 27 of them they start right here below this rock and they just kind of are going to create this beautiful drift and hug the rock wall kind of fun while we're here to see some of the bulbs that we helped plant this last fall our year has been so weird that these daffodils are just starting to bloom right now some of them are clearly In Bloom and then there's a lot of buds whatever variety ended up over here
• 23:00 - 23:30 though super bright how look at these over here those are awesome I think I see the poppies they must not be poppy seeds I think I'm seeing poppy plants that were popped in here that's a way to do it get a head start yeah they're all throughout here how fun hi CS hi Kitty oh and look at the daffodils up here in the trees how pretty these have kind of an orange trumpet in the middle I have a peachy orange oh look at my hands my goodness anyway guys that is it for today's
• 23:30 - 24:00 project super happy with what we got done I think that eliminated like 12 or 14 Flats which is so nice I did start to harden those seedlings off maybe about a week or so ago and I just tossed them outside um the front of the greenhouse where they catch a lot of sunshine a lot of warmth and if we had a cooler night I just tossed a piece of the frost protection cloth over the top of them I didn't go to the trouble of moving them back in because they are tough perennials that are cold tolerant um not to say that you know seedlings are usually pretty tender but the frost cloth worked great and then it
• 24:00 - 24:30 eliminated me needing to you know pick them up and put them back in every night and I think they they looked great also every project that I've been uh tackling lately I've been able to put more hos Lings out usually we have time in the spring to just get all the hos Lings out and put them on every single hose but it's just been like hit the ground running every day um so nobody's really had a chance to do that so I just grab one or Paul grabs one as we need them and we just pop them out um so I think we're getting pretty close to having hoses distribut throughout the garden anyway we're going to go enjoy some
• 24:30 - 25:00 family time probably up on the deck and just hang out and visit thank you guys so much for watching this video I hope you enjoyed it and we will see you in the next one bye