August Garden Tour 🌱🌻💕 | Cut Flower Victory at Last

It’s the end of August and that means it’s garden tour time! While there have been some challenges this growing season, there have also been some fabulous wins. Let’s cruise around the garden and I’ll dish on what is speaking to me.

As always, thank you all for sharing in my gardening journey!

Kate

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[jennifergreene]

Hi Kate 👋 Everything looks beautiful 😍 I love it all!! That Coleus is STUNNING!! Thank you my friend for another great garden tour. 💜🙏💜

[tracythomas]

I’m such a huge fan of coleus. The variation colors is just so stunning. I love the one you have behind your couch. ❤️🪴

[kfetter]

One of my favorite CA native grasses is Calamagrostis foliosa, aka, Leafy Reed Grass. Just saying the name sounds like a spell from Harry Potter, LOL! I tried to grow dahlias for the first time this year, and I regret not pinching them back when I had the chance. They are sooo tall and lanky now, and I know I am only going to get a few flowers. But they are special because they are from my mother's garden. Next year I will definitely pinch them! Your snaps are beautiful! I was given a couple of freebies from a local nursery a couple of years ago because they thought they were dying, and were going to toss them. Believe it or not, they are very tall and still blooming, and I am collecting their seeds. I love Fall, and it has really been in the air here for a couple of weeks. The warmth of the sun is no longer searing, there is a cooler breeze, hints of red are developing in the leaves of my persimmon tree and blueberry bushes, and it just feels calmer. 😄💐

[BradPaulson-oc]

Hello Kate from zone 4a, thanks for showing the beautiful "Honorine Jobert Japanese Anemone" I just love whispy plants. Gonna give it a try. 🥰

[SHarri-mumi]

The Elma Fudd reference made me 😆. Hopefully you’ll be more successful than he was in the bunny battles. Love your glads…such beautiful hues. And your planters are all gorgeous.

I am going to need the source for the very cute shoes!

[franosullivan-ou]

Hi Kate, been suscribed to ur channel since i first seen u on DWR wit janey. Absolutely love ur channel but wat makes it is not only ur gardening know how but ur personality surpasses all. Your enthusiasm, joy and lovliness whilst giving expert advice makes ur channel such a happy place so thankyou so much also for ur great sense of fun in every vlog. Thanks from the sunny south east... Eire ❤

[DiMarie-b]

Enjoying watching this tour tonight sipping on my Hello Garden chamomile tea! ~ Di

[sherylchapman]

Your dahlias are beginning to bloom! They are gorgeous! I am so happy for you! I love those snapdragons, too!

[pattyvalinote]

Good morning Kate! Love your garden tours! The containers look so pretty and yes very fall like 🍂🧡🍂I do know what you mean about the season changing, I feel it too!

[Cynthia-zzvi]

Such beauties love your color choices too

[RainOrShineGardening]

So many lovely and magical things in your garden right now. ❤️ Cheers to all that August brought to us and cheers to the upcoming restful season! (P.S. My garden says “hi” back!) 🥰

[judyluce]

I need some of the little bunny grasses, adding that to my list for spring shopping❤❤

[Pipscape]

Here in California we use rice straw on veggie beds and boxes. It is the best thing for moisture retention, weed suppression, and mostly breaks down in a single year, depending on application thickness. In spring I stir it into the top few inches or remove it to the compost pile when I'm ready for planting. Straw (not hay) also prevents compaction and nutrient loss in raised beds from heavy winter rains.
Straw is also great in pots as a mulch to prevent compaction from hose watering or water loss in our high temp summers. I use it on the strawberry and blueberry bed, and on planting spaces waiting for the right timing for planting. Keeps the weeds down.
Your dahlia beds and all of the cut flower garden, really, would love to have this protection. And it will helps suppress weeds. 😁

[rhondaschenk]

Thanks for the tour Kate! It’s all looking great really! I most love the Honorine Jobert Anemone! Thanks!

[jasminelouisefarrall]

Everything is looking absolutely amazing Late 🥰🥰

[annsfrench]

I like erigeron too! 😊 It does get a bit out of contol in my zone 10a garden but it pulls out easily.

[suekrebs]

Thank you for the beautiful tour! I also grow lots of snapdragons from seed. Costa Apricot blooms non stop. Potomac Appleblossom is also a favorite. I grow the Madame Butterfly mix as well as Bronze with white, Ivory and Cherry Rose. A pink that I love is Bridal pink from Johnny's. I also pinched all the tops, put them in potting soil, so lots of snapdragons for me. Enjoy your holiday weekend! I am excited because I'm going with my sister to a beautiful family garden center on a dairy farm later this morning. It is beautifully landscaped with flower beds around the barn and silos. It is Eberts Greenhouse in Ixonia, Wisconsin.

[amyjones]

What a fun episode. Sadly I lost control of my cut flower garden, yet again. Weeds overtook it. I don’t have a good place to store dahlia tubers so I grow from seed. It’s fun to be surprised by what colors I get and I can save seeds for the next season.

[kfaulknerstudio]

I need that Otto’s Thrill dahlia and the lavender snapdragons 😍

[pcrice-lrdn]

Everything is wonderful, I am a big fan of snapdragons, I think it is a childhood thing, and dahlias too, I always find humor in the fact that every one is so into dahlias when my daddy’s aunt was planting them 70 some years ago . She lived up in the mountains and planted them above a stone wall, row after row, coming up that gravel road and coming around the bend that was the first thing you saw before you saw her big old white farm house, a memory I will never forget. Your pots are doing great, you can just pop that petunia out. I love the straw idea, not sure I can find it without the seed heads here but I will check it out. That planter behind your outdoor setting was a genius idea, sun coleus do so good, I start out pinching mine several times and some look like bushes. Today we will have a 100 degree heat index, thankfully starting this weekend our temperatures go down most of next week in the upper 70’s. I can hear the angels singing 🎶 or that could be me, I will be so happy. This has been a Hot Dry summer, …..I am over it . Happy Labor Day weekend 🎈