The Spring Garden Waits for No One! What Happens Now?

It continues to motivate me over the course of the season, even when it's hot, but it also gives me something to look forward to every day, so let's take another break here and I want to show you a couple more things in the closeup of Upper Terrace the Manan. The lice are really starting to come out in full force just in time to accompany the pincushion flower or scabiosa I planted and which I'm keeping up with now that I really want to do it often. Here's a tip from Dead Heading Sometimes when I have wiry stems like this, it's very easy to accidentally cut off a new bud and not cut off the old spent bloom, so on this sneaky flower stem I'm simply pulling on it and by pulling He becomes very evident to me. which one needs to come off because that's putting stress on that particular stem, helping me identify it look here now someone asked me when you're dead, you have to take it down to the base, you really don't need to do that.

You still encourage more flowering if you don't, but if you don't like seeing those spent stems, then yes, you may want to take it all the way to the base and in scabiosa, I usually do, let's go here and talk about some. more because it is a form of pruning. Dead Heading is a form of pruning, but now let's talk about something that is a drastic form of pruning and that is something that you know I love to do and that is thinning and lifting the canopy of different shrubs to transform them into small trees, so my chosen target today is this Magnolia.

Now it's beautiful and I love it, but right now it's starting to block

what

I can see behind it and I want to be able to see through it. The other thing is now when things start to get very lush, things can lose their shape and the reason I like to prune these types of plants and really thin them out and give them more architecture is because I like that look against the background. spongy, overgrown nature of some of the perennials, so on this one I have to make some decisions and look here, it continues to bloom, oh well, I didn't see that before, yes, it continues to produce this color which is just wonderful, but I'm so you can say, well, how do you decide

what

you want to do?

Well, I'm deciding what I want to do based on the intention I have for this and the intention I have for this is that I want it. to make it look like a small tree, so I'm going to start from the bottom and start pruning it now on these types of projects. I like to use these battery-powered Turbo Works mowers because they make the job easier. what do I want to do down here, for example, I want to remove this one, it's growing low, it's blocking the growth of the better boxwood underneath and making it look like a big bush instead of a small tree, so I'm going to take this and I'm going to prune it by watching my fingers right at the base, right where this branch meets the trunk.

Stuart, were you able to get that kind of deal? So here's a small version, okay? I'm going to take that out, this one looks like some kind of suction cup and then here, so look at this branch right here, yeah, I look at what

happens

when I remove it immediately, you can see the shape of the trunk, yeah, you can see through this tree . I look through it and it's starting to look like a tree and not a bush, so I'm going to follow this all the way down to the base to the trunk and then right where that branch meets the trunk, I'm going to grab it. off, there is a little delay here on these printers, which is good because it gives you a chance to evaluate what you're doing and not cut your fingers off.

Well, I have another one down here. I'm going to prune this one by trying to get my mom to do this to the Chinese snowball. Now, once I actually delete the ones I want to delete, I can come back here and come back later and Some of these that I didn't get exactly flush with the trunk I can come back and I can do it later because now I have better visibility. Oh, that was satisfying, wasn't it? Yes, you could see it. all right, yes, yes, this is like this, so immediately see what it does and the other thing is what does this do.

This provides me with excellent material for cut flowers for arrangements that I may want to bring indoors. I continually look and evaluate, is it doing what I want? You have to do it in terms of getting the form right and yes, it is. I won't let you guys stay with me through all this pruning. Stuart. Do you think we've done enough to give people an idea? They definitely have an idea, they enjoyed what we're doing, put that one down now you're probably saying well, what about this one? Well, that's exactly it, what

happens

every time we do this?

What's up with this one? Well, on this. one is a decision point and I really don't want it to grow this way because it will take up real estate in the social yard, but it's a really good branch and I don't want to remove it completely, so what I'm doing. I'm going to do here taking that off again. I can go back and get these Nubs a little more effectively later, so I don't want to take this away, but I do want one to maybe start growing that way, so see the situation right here. This branch to this main branch which is where I'm going to make my cut because this one will start to grow this way because it has more vertical momentum than this one that's growing downwards, it makes a lot of sense, okay, that's what I'm doing today. and I'll finish this process like here's one who, whether I wanted to do this process or not, I would do it because this one is broken and I don't want him to get sick because a broken branch can be a vector or a place where diseases can infiltrate, like this You see, I will continue to fix the plant and once I finish it, of course, we will show it to you, so let's take a snapshot here, Stuart, a snapshot in time so we can show it to everyone.

Later, kind of a before and after of where we left off and where we'll come back and then I'll show you some final things and let you get on with your day now, as well as influence the shape by pruning some things. I also want to influence its shape horizontally, in other words I want this branch to start growing this way and apart from this, instead of both growing vertically and practically parallel to each other, that way it again gives the impression that it is a small. tree and it also gives me V visibility and transparency through it, so I'm going to achieve that and just pick this up.

This may not be the ideal implement to use, but I'll do it by putting a spacer here and there. It could be a piece of wood, it could be something that's probably a little more permanent than what I have here, but by putting a spacer in, it's going to encourage growth in this direction at this angle instead of just completely vertically. like it was before, that way I can influence its shape by pruning it vertically and horizontally placing appropriate spacers so that it grows into more of a calyx shape and an open calyx shape than the cup shape it naturally wants to grow into. so I think that's important in terms of not letting your plants take over you.

I'm going to monitor this and try to influence how it grows now as I do it. I don't want to overlook the fact that it has wonderful seed heads, look at that, oh how cool, aren't they so pretty and textured that they almost look like I don't know like a little animal or something? They're just very, very, very deer, okay. that's how you grow a bush the way it should grow and I have one more thing and then we're going to call it a day, okay, look at this basket here filled with all these thoughts that I pulled out.

They are pretty worn out, there is still a lot of good soil in these pansies and there is also a lot of benefit in the pansy foliage which will rot and be a source of nitrogen, but most importantly for me it is going to serve a purpose and I will show you what I mean. , so come over here, don't judge me, this is my work area, it hasn't really been cleaned yet, although I guess it's not that bad, we all have to have our work spaces, so if you follow me here. Many of you have asked me what I'm going to put in this ear because I had a topiary before and I wanted to put it somewhere else, so when I look out the kitchen window I want to make sure I have something to do.

Look, I love this olive ear, so now I just have paper here. I could even use a little bit, but what I'm going to do is fill this up. There's just rubble here right now. I'm going to fill this with all that garbage of thoughts. I should say, I guess pan pan on the show The Remains of the Day of the pansy and Viola and I'm going to fill this and then once I do that, I'm going to have to put just a smaller amount of soil in there and then I'm going to fill it with these Utopias that love the shadow.

These are a Southern Living plant. I haven't used them here at the cabin before, but this will be a wonderful solution. I'll put a couple of these here and it will be beautiful not only in the summer but also in the winter. I think it will be really beautiful, especially if I decorate the pot with some red berries and things like that. I think it's going to be fun, so that was the last thing I wanted to show you. In fact, I'll have a focal point when I look out this window as soon as I do, and maybe I'll do it this afternoon. after we finish our shoot, so thank you all for hanging out with me on this walk on Wednesday, do you have your question of the day: should I or shouldn't I topiate the Hol in a double ball shape and a couple of other cleaning things if do they want?

We are in the Oklahoma City area this Saturday. I think it's at 1:00. I'm going to sign books in regular books, so if you don't have a journal, if you don't have the fancy edible

garden

, if you don't have the box, you can get it there or you can bring your own copy and we can visit for a while while I sign it and Oh, also something really exciting. I know you'll be glad to hear it and that will be on Friday, Lord. will and we are going to go to our friend John Turman's house and we are going to take a look at his

garden

.

He's also made some changes as a result of some weather events and we're going to take a walk around his garden and see what's going on there and let's just say take a walk on Fridays at his house at the Spanish Bungalow, so there you have it guys Have a great Wednesday and see you this weekend.