So what do you do this time of
year with the sizzling heat?
What will survive?
What will bloom all summer?
Those are the questions.
And we've got Chris H Olson here
with me with more on a few latep
seasonal colors that will thrive
even in this summer heat and that can
actually be planted right now. ,
I mean, we think it's over and s
season is not over. There are a lot of.
Of the garden centers that are
curing lake crops of certain tys
of annuals and perennials that
thrive in the sizzle in summer .
And we have a lot of these
actually in the weather garden.
If you look in the weather gard,
it looks beautiful.
So I brought some that are gread
they're wonderful to go ahead and plant now.
And they'll last until we have a hard frost.
So we still have several months ahead of us.
So the first thing is I love the fire Bush.
Yeah, those are so fun. Orange,
bright orange isn't that bright orange.
It's not only that, but if you notice,
the bright orange looks great against
the fullest because it's a golden color.
You add a lime green in the gar.
Even if it didn't have flowers,
it brings out everything else,
so it's a great compliment.
Then we'll start over here.
This is begonias of course.
Begonias are probably one of my favorite
flowers, but this one is called Big Series.
It has the big flower and the big foliage.
Now this is the green leaf Big series,
which is a more shade tolerant.
Loves the heat, but shade.
There is a bronze leaf, but goi,
if it has a dark foliage,
that can take the full sun.
OK, so you want to make sure you do that,
then impatience.
Now, a lot of us don't know,
but this is called a sun. Impat.
It grows in full sun. Wow.
OK Hey, what's great about it?
It's easy to grow and very colo,
especially if you mix the color.
But they require lots of water.
So if you're not a good water,
you don't want that.
That was what I was going to as,
you know, if these can survive
in this heavy, heavy heat,
you need to water them more.
Well, you do, you know, I mean,
everything's drying out.
We're haven't been having rain
lately as much as we have.
We're starting to dry.
Dry it a little bit.
We usually do that when we get to August.
So you got to make sure you watr
a couple times a week and the pt
will tell you what it needs if t
starts to water it really well.
Now if you want it really
well and it's still wilting,
it may be you're over watered,
so you got to watch it.
And then of course,
if you're not a good water,
then you might want to do
the periwinkle or Vinca.
Now that's a oldfashioned angle.
It's been around for a while,
but they came out with new
hybrids with new colors.
Yeah,
that's. I really like that light
pink with the hot pink in the me
and mix everything to get looks good.
And this is called false Heathe,
which is an annual, but believe it or not,
for years it's been coming back.
And of course, our old standbys are lantana.
There's personaling,
which doesn't look like much right now
because it opens with the sun, ?
And then of course, Sun Coleus.
Mix all of these together for
one awesome display. These
are amazing. They're very,
very beautiful for people that
still have some flowers out
that aren't as heat, you know?
Good in the heat.
I mean is there things that they
can do to the plants that they
have right now to just help? Ye,
fertilize, keep them snip,
deadhead of and fertilize with
America grow or anything you li.
all-purpose fertilizer and
they'll bloom all way through.
Great advice. We're hanging
out in the beautiful
sun with lifestyle expert ChrisH
Olson from Botanica Gardens ande
are talking planters in the sun.
Yeah, container garden.
The sun can be hard because as
you know in the South it is hot.
So you want to find plants that will thrive.
All summer long and that
grow in intense heat.
And we have a couple of different purposes,
one for color, so let's start with that one.
I love this.
Well, my favorite of course is color.
And here we have the tropical hibiscus
and because it's a tropical pla,
it loves the heat and the humidity. As well.
And then we mixed it with the Croton.
Croton is just a foliage plant,
but add the two together, it looks beautiful.
And it's not always about the flowers.
It's also about the foliage.
And then when you use oranges and yellows,
it's always great to mix in some blue.
It really complements it very w.
So we have what's called blue fan flower
or scaviola, which is the ground cover it,
It will droop over the pot.
And then of course there's a geranium in
there too, for a little bit of fuchsia.
And you said this is a hibiscus,
that's a hibiscus, I say.
I say it's Southern.
You got Southern.
Can I, like, eat this?
Well, you can't.
I don't know if you can
eat a hibiscus flower,
although they do preserve them d
you can eat that, so maybe you could.
I'm not gonna try that.
Don't get mad at me if you eat .
What about this one over here?
But talking about eating things?
Try that. So this smells really good.
You can eat it.
Well, I didn't say you could ea.
Yeah you can. You can.
You can't. It's basil.
It's basil.
And what's great about this?
This is not only a beautiful pot because it
has contrast in greens, but it's edible.
So we have our basil,
we have our purple basil,
which is beautiful.
And then of course we also add
miracles in because the story gs
miracles keeps the insects away,
so it keeps your plants clean.
And then this non existent lookg
plant is actually Porchelaca.
Now the heat of the summer,
it's going to be in full.
Bloom and beautiful.
Wow.
And what about over there?
This is Rosemary, which smells wonderful.
It has variegated thyme in ther,
variegated sage.
So even though they're not
known for the flowers,
the variegation the least make
some contrast to everything.
And then of course we also have got garlic,
we got cilantro and parsley all
in one area on the front porch.
It's OK.
So when you're out here,
you know, sipping a drink,
you can nibble on this and it's really
good and maybe even put it in yr
drink and maybe you can cook wi.
With it and the smell of it by itself.
That's exactly right.
It's not just taste,
it's the scent
you brought. This is very large.
You brought it some very big decorations.
I thought, you know,
I'm all about having fun in the garden.
It doesn't matter if you
have a traditional home,
a contemporary home or very elegant home,
You can add fun, classic elemens
that make all the difference.
Maybe not necessarily in your front yard,
but can be in your backyard.
So I bought a few things
that we sell at the store.
First thing is we have these
great metal butterflies.
And what's cool about these is we even have.
Bigger ones than this,
So these are cool where you can
they can hang so you can hang
them on your friends gate or you
know different places like thato
brighten up a dull area on the fence.
They also come with steaks.
So sometimes at a front door or such,
I plant the front pot and then k
this in there at a slight angle.
And that adds fun.
And this is what people are
going to remember.
It's not so much the plants,
they're going to remember the fun art, right?
That's one option then.
I love using metal art, as in flowers,
So these are really cool.
We even have bigger ones.
This is great for our front doo.
Normally what do you do at a front door?
You put one. Right.
But I'll do like one down,
lower on the door and then I mit
do a medium size and then a small one
out of slight little angle to the whole door.
Yeah, for the whole door and
that really changes it up.
And again, these are great on fs
because these are rust proof etcetera,
but they add a lot of oomph,
always do odd numbers when you come to it.
So metal art such as flowers are great.
And such.
And they come in different size,
different sizes.
And yeah, they're bigger than t.
But I want to know what these
big spheres are.
The Spears, these are awesome.
I have used these for years.
Now let me ask you in your yard,
Adam, this is a question for you, OK.
How would you use this sphere?
Put it in the bottom of my pool,
You know,
actually,
that's a great
idea. I've done that before, the
rusts. So. So, you know, but if
they don't rust, yes, you can.
I have no idea what I would do with that.
I don't know, hanging from a
tree or making an ornament
that's actually.
But OK, quit a couple things.
First of all, I usually just
set them in the flower bed,
makes all the difference.
And then you can reach through
and plant flowers in in the mide
of it and let them grow up.
What about vines on it?
And it's just sitting in the flower bed.
I've also used them on pots,
so if you have a big container,
maybe you get the smaller spher.
You just set it on the pot,
plant it mandevilleia vine and you have
a whole cool little look like t.
I think you need to hang
these from your tree.
This one if you want to bring this one up.
It does have a chain on it.
If you hang a sorting of
these in a tree it is really,
really cool and it just adds
that special funness to it.
Right now they come, this is go.
There are two halves that
are actually wired together.
Now what I've also done memory t
to think outside of the box take
them apart and I've actually hug
these on a wall like this put.
The cocoa mat and half of it and
planted it as a wall decorationh
live and plan so you can get creative.
You can get very creative.
It's all thinking outside of
the box at the end of the day.
And it's adding color mate,
which may not be flower form but it's
an art form and fun to your gar.
This would look so cool in my
backyard with a bunch of twinkly
lights on it at night time.
Oh man, you can use.
I'm using for Christmas time.
Wrapping them.
I have them in my yard lit for Christmas,
the lights wrapped around them.
It's just endless possibilities.
It's just let yourself go and
let your imagination flow,
right.
I think a lot of people get
nervous about adding things.
Like this to their backyard,
but it brings so much.
And
yeah, just it's it's kind of
your own little, you know,
your own little paradise,
your own little space to
get creative. If it's done
classy wise, like you can
put this in your front yard,
cover it and vine so it softens.
But you have that sphere of vin.
It can be very elegant as well.
More plants. Yeah, it's got more plants.
We're going to be talking about only more
than life as plants. That's
right. Well, that's good.
So what are we, what are we?
OK, we're talking about container gardening.
So first we're going to start of
the container, what you want to.
First thing you want to think at
the material you got Terra cotta clay,
which happens to be one of my favorite.
But remember that absorbs the moisture.
So the chances of in the middle of the
winter if we have a really cold snap,
it could freeze and expand
and crack the pond. Possible.
So there's also concrete,
but this is glazed and if you get a high fire
glaze which costs just a little bit more,
but with a high fire they won't
absorb moisture. And the last.
Years and years and years aside.
Now remember there is no guarane
that winter won't crack it,
but usually not.
So once you determine your pot,
you want to also determine the
size of the container.
The bigger the pot,
the better,
because the less you have to water it. If
it's a small pot like this size
and the heat of summertime,
you're probably going to have to water it every day. But
if it was three times the size,
probably every other day
or every 3rd day, so.
I always get the bigger the bet.
If you can, OK, OK,
then you got to talk about soil.
Soil is very important because
it's like the foundation to a h.
If you skip on the foundation,
even though the house is so beautiful,
it can eventually collapse and .
If you use real inexpensive potd
soil then it it clogs and gets heavy.
It leaks this dark substance
when you water it.
So my favorite is Fertilome
is ultimate pot and mix.
I've used everything out there
included Miracle Bro which has d
pot and soil but the fertilome s
the best because it has nutrien.
It has vermiculite perlite which
is like that white stuff in it.
That lightens it up.
But it's not all peat Moss to m.
American grows a little bit mor.
Too much peat Moss anyhow,
so you want to get good soil th.
Remember, once you plant your plants,
really,
you got to fertilize if you
want beautiful containers to
last throughout the summer.
So I brought something new.
This is called PR61.
Oh my God,
he loves this stuff.
This is brain. I talked about it
once before, but I'm telling
you this stuff. Is amazing.
If you do this about every three weeks,
4 weeks, your plants will.
Your neighbors are gonna be so jealous,
right? Yeah. You used to
bring something else, but now
you are loving this. Yeah. Mirae
rose. Middle number is 30.
This is 58. Which is the,
which is blooming power.
It's like double. Yeah, yeah.
And then don't forget about your plants.
In the last two weeks,
we talked about sun lovers for
seasonal color and shade lover.
So you can always go back, you ,
to teasev11.com and look at those segments,
right. But we do mix pots alrea,
so you always want something ths
that they call the Spiller that
hangs over and helps soften the,
which also shades the pots
of the plant root system.
It's not so hot in summer, righ?
You're not watering and then you
want an upright plant in the mi.
Or to the side,
it doesn't have to be the middl.
This is big series begonias.
So we got their their pink and the red.
We got yellow,
which is my favorite color because it
complements every color in the rainbow.
OK And then we had the blue scaviola.
This is hot sun.
This will last all summer.
And then this one has the coleus in it,
more begonias in this wonderful
plant called Plex trampus.
I like that it's just giving ite
and it's like trampus kind of ad
rub it and you smell it when yoe
kind of smelly smell. What does it smell like? And
it has a kind of a salvia flowe.
Here you go.
Does that smell the right one?
Don't eat it. Just smell it.
Anyhow, can I drop that,
like, in here?
And so these come in a
plastic container and
they're designed really to
drop in a pot. So, Adam,
drop it in there. Drop it,
drop it, drop it in a pot.
Drop it in a pot.
You don't have to plant it.
You don't have to
buy pot and soil. You're done.
And then when it looks bad, you pluck
it out and you put something in there.
But this will last through the summer.
This will last until we have a hard freeze.
OK, there you go. So plantopia.
And botanica gardens.
That's where you'll find Chris H Olson.
He's over here smelling a leaf.
Smells really good. Don't forget
to bend over and smell the rose,
because that's what makes it all worth it.
Is that the saying?
Bend over and smell.
I never heard bend over.
Smell the roses. But hey,
stop and smell the roses.
Don't don't forget to kneel
down and smell the roses.
That's because he's tall.
He has a bit left.
We are in the weather garden
today to talk about Terra cotta.
Part pints with Chris H Olson.
And you said we're going to be aging these.
Yeah. So we're going to take something
like this and make it look like, yeah,
this is a clean new Terra cotta.
Now some people try to clean their pots.
We want them to look old and dirty, you know.
And this one I have behind
out of the camera can show,
but it has Moss growing on it.
Oh yeah. Yeah.
So I love that look.
So I'm going to show you how yon
expedite the process on Terra cotta clay pot.
So I'm going to need both your just thinking
about this is not this is good stuff.
It's not bad yet.
So we're using yogurt and buttermilk.
Well, there's three ways to do t
#1 you can do it with fertilizer
because most of the time it's ws
in the soil that leeches out the lime
deposits and fertilizer has tha.
So you can take a big,
you know,
5 gallon bucket,
go by the directions like with Miracle bro,
make it double the strong and then you put
the pot submers in there for about a week.
Take it out and then put and dr.
Let it dry and it will have
the lime deposits on it.
Now, but if you want the Moss,
that's different.
So there's a couple ways to do .
Number one, you can take plain yogurt,
so you don't need the flavor,
just plain yogurt.
Again,
all you're going to do is take a brush.
I'm going to pick a smaller one,
and then you're going to dip that here.
What are you?
I can't stand the smell of yogu.
Are you serious?
And this is a fun project to do.
Look,
we're painting with you. Yeah. OK, so
you do that. You can't even smell it.
You do the whole thing. So you .
I don't want to eat yogurt. No. OK, do that.
And then you're going to put it in a shady,
cool area outside,
like maybe under a deck that stays moist,
and you turn it upside down.
You just let it sit on the grou.
Within a couple months time it's
going to be beautiful and aged.
So that'll look like this.
That would look like that.
But now this does not have the Moss on it.
Eventually will grow,
but to make it really quick.
Then you're going to take buttermilk.
Do you hate buttermilk?
I like making biscuits with it.,
something about it just cut up my stomach.
Buttermilk.
So this is like you're cooking in the
kitchen, but it's better to do outside.
You know what that expiration
date is A suggestion that is,
I always keep it way over.
And then I got this from the weather garden.
This is real live Moss,
and you want to make sure you get live green
Moss and you're just going to break it up.
And you could do this in the blender too,
but sometimes if you make it too fine,
I think it doesn't do as well.
So I'm going to put that in.
Our buttermilk and I just make,
you know, a couple cups anyhow,
So you just do that and then yoe
going to mix it in really good.
And you could even make it a
little bit finer if you want.
This looks good, doesn't it?
No. Look how good that looks.
Looks awesome.
I actually think it smells good.
It does smell good.
OK,
then we're going to do the same exact thing,
and you want to make sure
you get chunks of the Moss.
And you're just gonna pay it.
That's a trash,
Ashley.
I'm gonna get you back up
and then you do the sack. Same thing.
And sometimes what I do is I'll
let this dryer dries very quick.
I'll come by and do one more coat over it
to make it nice and thick and then you're
going to go do the same exact t.
Put it someplace cool and moist outside and
it will start a bunch of bugs and stuff.
Well, it dries out pretty quick,
but not really, you know, not really.
And then what you do overtime,
see how you have the Moss and
the green shark. That's OK.
I thought this was like a paper.
No, that's real. And these and these are
aged and then we keep up, you know, so.
It takes about two or three mon.
What's great about this is you also want
to make sure you do the saucers,
because you want it to match.
You want it to match.
Now you're asking us, why do you do this?
Well, not only does it look goo,
but like if you do it now,
by the time the holidays come,
you can take your poinsettia,
put it in there with real green sheet Moss,
and it's a perfect.
There's the difference.
There you go doing this one.
Yeah, I like this.
It's very cool.