Flower Gardening For Beginners – the Secrets No One Tells You

The sun map is an awesome tip. I have a shady yard with a few spots that get six hours or about that. I’ve been watching where I get the most morning sun and even midday sun. My yard is big and I forget what’s where. I’m definitely starting a sun map this weekend. This will make plant management so much easier.

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FANTASTIC Video. I'm not a new Gardener, but have learned a lot with your explanations. .I've gardened in 6b in PA, 9b & 8a. ❤ Thank you.

Thank you so much for all the information you shared in this video. I am attempting to grow a Cottage Style Garden and need all the help I can get. Your tips here were easy to understand - thank you for that. I'm 65 and starting this new adventure. I've always loved flowers but let myself believe I didn't have a green thumb therefore I never really tried. Oh - I have planted plants through the years but never really enjoyed the process as I am now, or even imagined I could create my own flower garden. Thanks again, God Bless.

I've been gardening off and on for the past 50 years or so. Being moved by the Air Force for 20 of those prevented me from doing at least some digging in the dirt. The things I really appreciated from your video here was how to calculate the water needed during he first year, and making the sunlight diagrams and charts. It would drive my wife crazy when I would dig up and move a plant because it wasn't doing well where I first put it in. Thanks for sharing your knowledge!

Perennials are the way to go in SE Texas zone 9a. Don’t let her make you think different. Our heat eats annuals for breakfast!!

Great tips, reminders and information! I thoroughly enjoyed this video. Enjoyed the replies/comments from your viewers as well. Well done everyone! Thank you! 👌🪴

I’ve actually been finding plants at our local garden centers that double as home improvement stores that are NOT in our growing zone. I’ve found roses that won’t survive our winters there, large expensive trees that online claims won’t likely make it in our zone. Etc. So I’d be careful there saying that because it isn’t always the case. There’s definitely more that will work in our zone than not-but there are a few “nots”. It’s important to read tags to be sure if it’s a plant you don’t see locally-there may be a reason for that.

One thing that I learned the hard way is that some box garden stores and nurseries sell plants that are not zone specific. 😮 You sort of mentioned this, recommending special care for these, this is called a micro climate. It takes a lot of trial and failure to find these micro climates in your garden. Along this same line, anyone planting in desert heat, take the full sun verses shade recommendations with skepticism. I have a lot of shade elements in my desert garden but most of these areas still require full sun plants because my desert sun is very strong. This has been a costly process determining what is truly shade in my yard. Thank you for the advice! Well worth the time 😊

I just became a subscriber. Would it be possible to create a few design videos on orchard landscaping? So many backyard orchards are too utilitarian in feel, where adding cosmetically appealing design could make the garden beautiful as well as practical.

Any zone 12-13 recommendations?

You’re speaking way too fast. Slow down!

I learned a lot ! Thank you !

Thank you for this video. As a new gardener, it was very helpful.

Loved this video…I’m really struggling with choosing your plants and mixing plants up to get the look you want and how to have the garden so there’s always something in flower - my dyslexic brain really can’t fathom from what I know and to another brain I know it would be enough.
Do you have a video on this or would it be something you’d be interested in doing?
Many thanks.

Awesome video! Very informative and I personally enjoyed the music.

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Oh my! You are a walking encyclopedia of gardening knowledge! I learned so much in this one video!
Subbed, can’t wait to watch more.

A great and informative video! TY

Very helpful but i agree the background music is distracting and annoying. Great job otherwise.

Your videos are fab. Please ignore the nitpicking criticisms of the internet peanut gallery and keep doing what you’re doing. So glad I found your channel today. 🎉

Great information! These are all the things I wish someone had walked me through when I was first starting out. Instead, I had to figure them out by trial and error in those first few years!

Super helpful and very informative ❤Great video! Thank you so much 😊

Greeting's from Ireland. There was a man who ten years ago had no more interest in gardening than the man on the moon. We moved out of Dublin and bought a cottage in rural Ireland and my wife would keep a few pot's of annual's around the front of house. One day she asked me to dig a flower bed at the front of the house job done I thought but oh no she wanted me to help her plant the bed. I followed her lead and planting those flower's created a spark and I went digging and digging and planting and planting. Now we have over fifty pots of perennial's and four flower garden bed's in the front garden and a no dig vegetable plot out the back.. The ironic thing is my wife does not bother with the garden and I think she got me started because she thought I'd like it even though I didn't.

Loved the advice! Maybe less music?

Great video! Watched from zone 6b!

Any suggestions for mosiac virus, one of my flower bed effected by that. What can I do without removing my pants?

You should absolutely look up zone if you want certain perennials to over winter. And nurseries do not always have suitable plants for the zone they are selling in. A good example for my area is lavender. I've seen it sold in this area as a perennial, but it's really rare for anyone to be able to get it to over winter properly outside (some people have them in pots and bring them inside). If I didn't know that, I would have easily bought a plant that I thought was a perennial and then likely experience a failure not understanding why.

Very informative. Thank you!!!

Thank you! Great info!

Thank you for sharing this information for us beginners!

Thank you for this video! First time homeowner and I’m trying to add flowers but lord is it overwhelming.

You rock, thank you <3

I subscribed. Thank you. I'm so new at gardening I know very little to be honest. Our contractor put in plants in the front yard in 3 garden beds. The tall Kangaroo Paw plants are out in the very front. The flower stems are so tall and bushy that you can't see anything in the garden bed behind them. Shouldn't the growth go from tallest to the smallest so we can see everything? I want to fix it. Can Kangaroo Paws be transplanted or do I need to dig them out and replace them with other more compact plants? Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Typical tradesmen living in his own doing up his house I’m onto my garden and I’ve built a long flower bed didn’t realise plants were so expensive and so confusing on what to put down 😅

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Garden centers here in Winnipeg sell perrenials that do not survive in our zone 3. You have to check the tags carefully or goole it.

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Do NOT fertilize plants. If you plant native plants in the right area, fertilizer isn’t needed. It’s a myth to need fertilizer. Give the plants organic matter, water, and sunshine. It’s all they need.

Love your content, thank you.

Love your channel! I have learned so much! ❤

This was the best video on the subject. Thank you!!! 😊. New subscriber

As always great information!thx😃

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you are so well versed.Are you a landscape designer? 😀 Thank you that I found you!

How much you charge for landscaping design ?