5 Plants I Love and 1 that I Regret Buying

🌿 5 Garden Plants I Love and 1 That I Regret Buying 🌿

Welcome to Garden Moxie! In this video, I’m sharing my top 5 favorite garden plants that have transformed my garden into a vibrant oasis—and one plant that turned out to be a big regret. Whether you're a beginner or an experienced gardener, you'll find valuable insights and inspiration for your own garden.
Watch to Discover:

🌸 Stunning flowers that bloom all season
🌿 Hardy perennials that thrive with minimal care
🌞 Sun-loving beauties that light up your garden
🌱 Easy-to-grow plants perfect for any garden
💚 My biggest gardening regret and what I learned

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Download the accompanying PDF guide for a summary of each plant. 🌻
(I had to delete the link because someone tried to hack my website...sorry people can't be nice).

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[ytubechannel]

For the beebalm, I would do a chelsea chop in mid spring for the floppiness and thin out half the stems at that time to create better airflow for the powdery mildew.

[kristywhited]

The list of plants I love to grow has become smaller over the years, mostly because I' have made the decision to be more "selective" and to refocus on growing more of what grows/survives for me instead of having a large variety of plants. I have a huge problem with deer and this year (for the first time in 14 years in this home) I have a problem with rabbits as well. My filters are now....zones 4-8 minimum (I'm 6b), deer and rabbit resistent, insect damage resistent, and powdery mildew/disease resistent. What is working for me right now is boxwood, daffodil, iris, native wisteria, nasturtium, barberry, japanese holly, green giant arb, spartan juniper, wiegela, dwarf crape myrtle, cimicifuga, prairie winds 'lemon squeeze' and 'cheyenne sky' fountain grasses, blue star juniper, dwarf mugo pine, and hellebore. I recently added some baptisia and I'm waiting to see how that goes. So far, so good. I don't mind tending my garden, but I don't want to feel like I'm going to war with it each year.

[KnightBlooming]

What a beautiful space you have created!

[landscapedesignmanagement]

Thx for sharing

Texas greats are… Lantana, Cone Flowers, Day Lilies, Rock Rose, Salvias, Hummingbird Bush, Rose of Sharon, Hibiscus, and the list goes on and on and on… 😊

[rhus]

Powdery mildew is definitely a problem on almost all monardas. To me, they make up for it by blooming basically all summer long and feeding thousands of bees. As for the flopping I’ll say that many times a native plant will grow much taller in the first two or three years after planting than they typically grow for the rest of their lives or in the wild. Once they reach equilibrium with the other plants, they usually hold themselves up a little better. :) Good luck and thanks for the video!

[phyllisstrickholm]

I love my monarda, it's called 'Mahogany ' and has never gotten powdery mildew, has gorgeous deep fushia colored blooms and very strong stalks. Last year it grew to nearly 7 feet high(more rain), this year under 6, with drought. As I have horses, most of my garden has very rich soil and I rarely need to stake anything, even peonies with massive and abundant blooms. Your garden is really lovely. Happy gardening.

[RionPhotography]

I bought some shorter varieties of bee balm that I could put in with my roses without overwhelming the area and they have done an amazing job of still attracting tons of pollinators for me!

[YalisCommunity]

I am loving that penstemon midnight! I need her in my life! She will go well with the hibiscus and elderberry in our garden. I love that dark foliage contrast! Thanks for sharing such informative video. Will keep an eye out for the penstemon. Have an awesome day Sue!

[sleepinglioness]

Beautiful 💐 My days of gardening are over, I'm afraid, but I still dream when I see a beautiful garden like yours. I always had as much echinacea as possible, red beebalm, rudbeckia (can't get enough!). Always admired the softer tones, but I was drawn to the stronger coloured perennials. I still have them but more flowering shrubs...less management.
Your garden is a delight.

[dougr.]

This is my first season with Heliopsis 'burning hearts' & I love it as much as you love yours. It looks great with little care & keeps blooming

[LAWandCoach]

Loved the video. Your garden is quite the prize. I am a container gardener and have mostly native plants for the birds, bees and other pollinators. The Monarda I have is the didyma "Jacob Cline" I am having problems with mealy bugs on the Monarda as well as on my Salvia Coccinea and my coleus. (Alcohol and cotton swab). I am not crazy about the salvia Coccinea mostly because it is in a large pot and constantly dried out here in SC. It would be great in the ground at the back of the garden. A great new thing I did this year was plant native wildflowers in an old kids wagon. A plastic Radio Flyer. I used old potting soil and just sprinkled the seeds, patted them down and poof they came up in 3 days. Of course I over planted so I have to water deep twice a day, but boy what a bunch of blooms since April non stop with something new as the days go by. There are seeds for every state. Sun or shade etc. Very pleased. Oh and I also love the Passiflora vine which would be an annual in Michigan unless you have a conservatory but of course the flowers are so unique and of course the passion fruit. Thank you for your helpful video and a peek at your lovely garden.❤

[alliehamilton-calhoun]

I have yard envy watching this video. Your space is so beautiful and inviting. And you have butterflies! I've smothered all of the grass on 3 sides of my yard and replaced it with flowers and shrubs for the birds. I'm in central Illinois, and I've seen maybe two butterflies all summer. Orher people I talk to locally haven't seen any. My yard is the only oasis in the kentucky bluegrass desert of the neighborhood; it should be crawling with butterflies. As I said, I'm jealous 😊 I dont have the flopping issue with my 5' tall bee balm, but, yes, it does get powdery mildew every year. Jerry Baker had a lot of books about home gardening remedies. There was sonething about a baking soda solution to get rid of the mildew. In my yard, it doesn't bother me much because it's surrounded by other, equally tall prairie plants that block my view of the foliage. My favorite summer perennial is liatris. It's strikingly tall and beautiful, and the pollinatirs love it.

[CottageGardensonForest]

I grow lots of salvia varieties because they just handle my zone 8b (Texas/Arkansas border) heat and humidity so well and perform till winter. I also like several varieties of coreopsis, gallardia, coneflower and rudbeckia. I love the different styles of your gardens.

[francesmclaren]

I’m in NZ and love to grow the tall brightly coloured zinnia. The butterflies just flock. They also grow all summer long. And I like to leave the dried branches until into June as the birds collect the seeds.

[deborahblackvideoediting]

Lovely video. Thank you for the recommendations and the pdf. I've had trouble for a long time growing most flowers in my garden (it's always had terrible drainage). This year I'm trying something completely new - I planted everything in pots and I just put the pots in my garden. Lol, it's never looked better! Lots of beautiful blooms everywhere! :)

[IslandGirl]

Loved the video. My favourite plants are False Indigo, Peonies, Columbine, grasses, irises, poppy, honeysuckle, lace cap hydrangeas and hosta ( deer ate most of mine this yr) for pots I love begonias, verbena, and so many more

[Al-ImprovEd]

Those were all very good picks. Here in Raleigh NC, 6b? I love Coleus. So many colors and varieties for a part sun/shade yard.

[sharonmorelli]

In RI, we have really high temperatures and without being able to weed in my garden…..now unless it gets cooler the weeds just keep coming with little mosquitoes or really small insects the bite me, and help will help. Love your video❤

[chrispetersen]

I love Agastache’Blue Fortune’. It seeds around and the seedlings can be variable in height and sometimes color. It also has had chartreuse seedlings like the cultivar ‘Golden Jubilee’. The golden form is not as tall in my garden.

[lynnpurse]

Wonderful video, Sue - so helpful to see your successes. I grow Penstemon 'Dark Towers' which is similar to your cultivar and I love it for all the same reasons! Also, its emerging dark foliage looks great with spring bulbs, plus it is a cultivar of our native Penstemon digitalis, hence the insects flocking to it. 
If you decide to remove your Monarda fistulosa, consider the selected form 'Claire Grace'. It was recommended by the Mt. Cuba studies and I planted it 3 years ago. It was a naturally occurring selection chosen because it was a little shorter and less prone to flopping as well as with better mildew resistance. I grow mine in a partly sunny area and it has not flopped at all nor had any mildew. (Zone 6, SW PA) Also, the deer seem to leave it alone unlike Monarda didyma, which they nibble quite a bit. It also tends to not travel as much as the Monarda didyma.
Another favorite in my garden is Helenium 'Sahin's Early Flowerer' - I love flowers with multiple colors and this is a beauty - it stands straight up, the pollinators love it, and it has been persistent for me for the past 3 years. It would look great with your Heliopsis ''Burning Hearts'. 
Finally, I am smitten with our native grass Deschampsia cespitosa, tufted hair grass. It is a cool season grass and greens up very early in the season. It blooms in mid-summer, very airy see-through 2' blooms that add a magical touch to the garden for months until late fall. I used it with great success in my wild garden and am now adding it to my more formal garden beds to reduce the maintenance work while adding a little ethereal magic.They also divide easily in early spring, not at all like dealing with miscanthus or other large grasses. I recently bought several more in plug form from The PollenNation nursery by mail - they are the least expensive source of native plants that I've found and have given me the most success. Thank you again for such an informative video!