Summerhouse Garden Tour

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Howto & Style

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• spring
• outdoor
• garden
• paperwhites
• astilbe
• Design2Share
• country
• DIY
• howto
• landscaping
• decorating
• entertaining
• antique

[Treefrogs2]

PA looks like a beautiful state. Woodland gardens are my favorite. The summer house is wonderfully cozy, with great views. Thundercloud is a fav plum tree of min e

[westend104]

@Treefrogs2 Thanks so much for watching and your lovely comments. We also find our little part of PA to be lovely. The thunderclouds in our yard have just started leafing after flowering two weeks ago. It's been hot here in the East!

[Treefrogs2]

very nice

[westend104]

Thanks for watching! (And the Robert Priest vid on your channel is great.)

[artettina]

Did you get to see my last video with me planting and invitation to my next show? You might like that one I did it kind of artsy.

[westend104]

No, I MUST see it! (I love your vids....)

[wadesurus]

Aww, that looks really lovely to spend time in, but i have to ask is that glass your net?

[westend104]

Mulching is fantastic! In Pennsylvania, however, there are too many worms in the soil and they are starting to eat roots. There was an article in the NY Times House & Home section last month that recommended some kind of easy-to-find product to add to the mulch around tempermental plants if you think you have too many worms (the article gave the test for "too many" by having you count worms per shovelful of dirt). Nature is amazing....

[chrispycrunchy86]

yeah? that's something I've never heard of... I've noticed that where the mint grows, the soil is very rich, there an abundance of worms there too... I learned that astilbe needs to be in moist soil... so I mulched to try and keep the soil a bit moist. hope it works... 8)

[westend104]

Thank you very much! I can't wait to go there this weekend. We are throwing a party for about 70 of our friends and neighbors, our pool is finally open, and hopefully everyone will enjoy the day! Of course I will post videos! :>)

[westend104]

I actually learned an "inner lesson" with a former house I owned in Minneapolis. The side yard garden was overwhelmed with mint. I kept pulling it out and it kept growing back. Finally a neighbor told me to ignore the mint. "Plant what you'd like to grow there and instead of subtraction, focus on addition." Wow, that was powerful, and it worked! I planted small shrubs, Egyptian onions (which also spread), and flowers. They thrived and happily co-existed with the mint.