I'm back with Jamie Durie.
He's going to show us all now how
to plant a flower box like the ones he planted
on my neighbor's balcony.
So everybody, anybody could do this.
Where do we start?
Well, it's really, really simple.
I mean, we just got these timber boxes from Lowe's.
And we actually covered the exterior of it with copper,
so the copper would turn back that lovely green patina,
and it would tie back to the green color of the balcony.
OPRAH: Good idea. See.
Yeah, and I think for the most part-- we'll start with these.
I like one-stop shopping. I really do.
- It's good, isn't it? - Yeah.
Yeah
So we'll start with this one here.
And what I did was I grabbed some--
So you can get everything from Lowe's?
You can get the dirt too?
Yes, you can, actually.
We don't call it dirt in the gardening world.
Oh, we don't? What do we call it?
No, we call it soil.
Oh, soil.
Sacred-- sacred soil, that's right.
Oh, OK.
Good.
So I got the bacopa like this, and I-- which
is a spillover plant, right?
So I often tell people, buy your plants with shapes first
and plants later on.
Don't get bogged down with the names, you know?
Actually look at the habit of the plant.
And that's got a lovely spillover.
Shapes first--
Plants later on. Exactly.
OPRAH: So you don't have to learn the names of things yet.
Exactly.
Because it's quite technical, you know?
We had to go to--
So the reason why I'm putting this in this box
is because this is prettier.
I wouldn't just take it home and leave it in this?
No.
I mean, this is much nicer.
So we'll bury this down here.
This is Gardening 101.
Exactly.
Pretend I know nothing, since I don't.
- OK. - OK.
All right. Now you can put these in.
Do you want to put those in? - Yeah.
OK.
This is a volcano phlox, and we're
going to have those here and here to match this window box.
So did-- OK.
Did I have some soil in the bottom of this already?
Yes, there's a little bit of soil in the base.
Exactly. - Yeah.
OK.
So what I did-- and you have to match it over here.
You see?
You've got to just pull that in a little bit.
- Oh. - There you go.
There you go. OK.
So they just sit a little bit-- - Oh, I'm making an arrangement.
That's exactly right.
It's just like flower arranging. - OK, Good.
Good good. I got it.
And these are the beautiful geraniums.
So they can pop into the end there.
You can put that one in. I'll put this one in.
Oh, I'm-- OK.
That's--
Yeah, we're going to match this one.
You're up with it now.
You're on fire.
OK.
That's looking good.
- Isn't that good? - That's looking good.
And you know, what I do is I mix in a little bit of sphagnum
moss into the base of the plant, and I
put some fabric underneath to take the silt out.
Sphagnum moss?
Sphagnum moss, exactly.
And that'll absorb all the nutrients and the water,
and it'll keep it inside the soil
so that when the-- because balconies are quite windy,
and they're exposed to sun a lot.
So I don't want just dirt, I want some sphagnum moss.
A little bit of sphagnum moss just
to hold the moisture in there it's quite a good idea, yeah.
Would I need more-- see, there's a hole there.
Would I need-- - Here we go.
Coming up. Soil on its way.
Soil. Soil.
Soil.
We're like a well-oiled machine, aren't we?
OK, good. Yeah.
Yeah, we are.
- [LAUGHS] - Yeah, we are.
Here we go.
- Sphagnum moss. - That's it.
Which, they'll have that there too at Lowe's, right?
Absolutely.
- OK, good. - Oh, they're going to love--
Because I don't want to have to now go--
I don't have to go to another store.
- OK, now-- - I'm just going to make it two.
Yeah.
We'll just dress up the sides, and that's working.
There we go.
I think we've got another window box.
That's nice.
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Very nice.
Now this is--
let me just clean this up.
OK.
I'm going to turn you into an instant epiphyte gardener.
- OK. - Do you know what that is?
- No. - OK.
That is-- now you've got some people coming over for dinner
or lunch or whatever, and you want to dress
the table very quickly.
So here you go.
A little bit of sphagnum moss in the base of this.
Just a simple glass bowl.
Yes, because I just had some sphagnum moss lying around.
You did, yeah.
I've already decked out your garage.
We've got it all in there.
And here we go.
This is Tillandsia.
It's an air plant, OK?
It survives on no soil.
It just--
I'm not loving it, really. But OK--
No, no. You will love it.
Trust me. - OK.
Just toss these in here.
And you can decorate the outsides.
So we've got a little bit of color, a little bit of pink.
Yeah?
Where did I get this from?
I also got that from Lowe's, yeah.
So this is-- and look, this will survive inside here
for up to six months, and you don't have
to put any soil or water in it.
And it's just a gorgeous little thing.
And these are epiphytes. They're air plants.
So no soil. - They need nothing.
- Nothing. - OK.
I mean, a bit of moisture is-- you
can spray them up a little bit. - OK.
OK. And I thought this was--
I'd like a little more color, personally,
if you're coming over. But anyway, go ahead.
OK. OK.
No worries.
Now these are interesting.
This is-- I mean, for all of you guys who forget to water--
Yeah.
Because this is what I'm worried about my neighbors.
I'm worried about them keeping this up.
I really am.
Aren't you all a little worried about it?
Because people think you have to have a green thumb, or at least
a half mint thumb or something.
But what we did is we gave these guys maintenance packs.
So we've got a slow release fertilizer.
We've got water saving crystals.
We've got little watering cans.
So you'll definitely water these things once a week,
won't you guys? - Yes.
Yes. JAMIE DURIE: They are trained.
And if you don't, the neighbors will talk about you.
- Exactly. - OK.
- You are watching, aren't you? - Yeah.
OK. Now this is a bromeliad, right?
Look at that. Look how much water that holds.
Yeah.
So the beauty of bromeliads is that they're
rainforest species.
They're used to living in shade.
So it's the perfect indoor plant.
And if you forget to water it, it actually
holds water in the base.
They're like camels.
They're brilliant.
So there you go. Bromeliads.
Bromeliad. Exactly.
They are lovely indoor plant. - Wonderful.
All right.
Now what else do we have here?
We have-- for a drought-tolerant style species,
I thought this was kind of interesting.
What?
This is a drought-tolerant Sansevieria.
So it's a mother-in-law's tongue.
That's what we call it.
Have you ever heard of that, the common term?
No, I haven't heard it.
Well, it's one of those plants you can leave outside, go away
on holidays for three or four months,
and this will still survive.
It's just--
Does it get taller than that, or is
this just about the height?
This is a dwarf variety, and this is the Alva.
But there is a taller variety as well, which is quite nice.
All right.
And I thought--
now, I heard you like roses.
Yeah, I do like roses.
I have a rose garden.
This is a really lovely rose, and it's called carpet rose.
It actually has that lovely sort of compact form.
OPRAH: Oh, that's nice.
JAMIE DURIE: And it flowers a lot,
and it's disease resistant.
And it's actually quite drought-tolerant,
so you don't need to pump it with a whole lot of water.
And it really does look after itself.
It's a great little compact rose.
What's it called?
Flower Carpet.