Pollinator Garden Tour: Everyone Can Grow a Garden (2023) #23

Susan gardens in Spokane, Wash. While most of this region is in hardiness zone 6, her garden is in a microclimate, making it zone 5b.

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[cathysinor]

New subscriber from southern CA
Love your beautiful pollinator garden

[dee]

Can’t wait to see the poppies in bloom!

[joycedagostino]

Thank you for the tour, you can see some of the bees already enjoying the bounty! Thank you for also mentioning the botanical names.

[jeanniekline]

That was so much fun to see! Thanks, Susan😊

[jsf]

P.s. my girls 11& 8 love the friendly chickadee and when they here your theme song always watch with me- thank you for all the content

[serenitynowgarden]

Your lupines are amazing this time of year!

[dustyflats]

How do you keep the wildlife from eating everything? We are in drought Z5a WI and we scared a deer out yesterday when we came back home and this morning I have to figure out how a rabbit crossed 2’ chicken wire and hog fence. I have purchased flower seeds from American meadows a couple years ago and the wildlife grazed it bad. I had lupines until they ate them. They grow wild in the ditches in Bayfield. It’s been such a tough year.
I have a lot more winter sow flowers to finish up today and all need to be fenced in so things are getting crowded. It’s SOoo dry here the milkweed dried up and froze from freak frost a week and half ago and froze most peppers, tomatoes, potatoes, grapes and berries. Before the unwarned frost they were all beautiful 😭. The local winery lost 95% of buds on most grapes to an earlier frost and they are on a hill. Our frost was just before Memorial Day and no weather forecast covered it.
Hope the forecast is correct for rain this weekend as I don’t remember the last one. The other worry is the low temp this morning was 41* and another cool one tonight and NE wind and clear—I’m nervous because if it happens again I’m throwing in the trowel. Then I will get a high tunnel and create my own climate as this battle of weather, wildlife is too costly.
I’m an undercover agent as everything I grow is under some kind of cover. It’s dust here and smoke from wildfires which I thought we would not have this year. I guess if the west isn’t burning somewhere else is and the lows are dragging it right to us in Midwest.
I planted red poppies last year in fenced garden and they are gorgeous! They love not being eaten by wildlife here.
I’m sure your flowers will be popping all over soon. Take care.

[LindasFlowersandVegetablesGard]

I really enjoyed your video, Love your pollinator garden.Just subscribed your channel!

[steeltoeboots]

Awesome garden im converting my yard as we speak.

[barbkenas]

Can't wait to see the poppies, tfs!

[greenthumbelina]

Susan, thanks for the update on your pollinator and perennial gardens, they are beautiful. I'm so glad that🤗 Ned showed up to see what you were doing. Blackcap Chickadees are one of my most favorite birds, but how did you know it was Ned, the male? We don't get them here, so I've never seen a pair of them together. I hope you and Bill are having a great week. ~Margie💚🐝💐🦋

[donnamullins]

Thank you Susan. Both flower beds are just lovely. What direction does you front garden face? Our east facing front native pollinator garden was native Texas Blue Bonnets and a few yellow daisies (don't know where they blew in from}. My husband mowed yesterday in every direction to spread the seeds already covers about 1/2 acre. Followed by a wonderful but short rain storm. I think we are set for next year.

[DDiamondRRuby]

Hi Susan, loved the flower tour. I planted Sweet William from seed last year and planted the seedlings in containers and various corners of raised beds. Boy was I disappointed when I found out they don't bloom until the second year! So this year I have many Sweet William flowers out there. Do you know if they keep cycling around - will they live next year and bloom again in two years?

[suzannesayers]

Very lovely, but your perennial garden is also a pollinator garden. I'm not sure why you differentiate between the two. They both attract pollinators and neither is 100% native, but they both have natives

[teresamiller]

A thought about pollinators. So my June bearing strawberries need pollinators but early spring when strawberries start to bloom there aren't really any pollinators around in Northeast Nebraska because it could still be chilly. Thought??

[jsf]

Help my tomatos and peas haveThrips!! I watched your video from last year, , , but upon inspection with my magnifying glass (tx for the idea) I see aphids and what looks like pollen. But damage looks like every picture . Could there be both? I do have your book but loaned to my sis in law.

[timchestnut]

Much trouble with deer in either the pollinator or perennial gardens?