When to start decorating for fall
Decorating for Fall! 😍🍂🍁// Garden Answer
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hey guys how's it going so today
Benjamin and I are gonna give you a tour
of all the fall decorations back here on
our back patio I've actually never I
don't think decorated this area for fall
I always kind of choose a different spot
to decorate every year just because it
becomes a lot so we have an old side of
the house and a new side of the house
both which have kind of a formal entry
and a back entry so there's four entries
to our house and so every year when I
get ready for a new season I'm thinking
okay do i decorate all four of them or
do I just pick one and go all out so far
I've only really decorated one typically
I'll change all my containers over which
is a little bit more simple but this one
I kind of did like I decked it out a
little bit more I'm starting with these
containers right here so these are the
state square containers I can't remember
the name of them exactly but I did spit
them up with a little quick layer of
black spray paint because they did get
quite dirty and stained from water which
is typical every single season I come
out here and give them a quick once-over
and it makes them look brand new I
planted these pine lollipops this spring
with all intentions every and every
intention of moving them out for summer
containers and putting a grass in but I
really liked the structure up here and
they've done really really well so I
just left him here and I like the
structure in the winter I'm so down
below I've got three ornamental cabbage
these are Osaka red I've got this is
strawberry blonde marigold which they
kind of like evolve in color they're
beautiful we've got a dusty miller here
there's dichondra silver falls this is a
never gold I think is the name Care
Act's and then a few Solar Flare pansies
so I just kind of decked this container
out there is a second one over here on
this side and there's Russell so we've
got both of these flanking containers
matching which I think looks nice the
fun part about this entryway is that it
is on the east side of the house and
it's protected from all the wind because
most of the wind comes in from the West
so I can do stuff up here and really not
have to worry about it falling over
unless we get a horrible storm and I
decided not to do anything at the base
of these beams because our sidewalk
right here is kind of narrow through
here narrow ish when I have my guard
card if I put anything on the sidewalk I
have to go over into the mulch and I
don't really want to have to do that um
so as we go in here you can see I kind
of start explaining where I started
decorating so the first thing I did was
I dismantled the window boxes we had
some chocolate drop coleus in there some
surefire rose begonias wild berry hookah
rest I mean just a bunch of beautiful
stuff most of which I was able to pop
out and pot up so all of the hookahs I
put an individual nursery pots and
they're in my greenhouse I'm gonna let
him kind of sit there for a little bit
and then I may put him out in the
landscape this fall yet I've got some
amazon miss Carrick's that are potted up
over here I haven't even moved them out
but over here I've got surefire Rose
begonias and chocolate drop coleus in
containers that I will move inside but
they all did really well and then I
replaced them with Croton fact let's
move closer to one
why don't we come this way oh he's gonna
bring a squash you'll come this way
buddy
did you grow that squash yeah okay so in
the window boxes I did five crotons
which you usually find in the house
plant section because they are a
tropical house plant they typically
don't like to be you know down below
freezing but a lot of our fall annuals
or annuals don't really like to be below
that anyway and this is so protected
that typically when I use these in a
fall container they still last for me
for quite a lot of the season and I just
make sure to keep them nice and moist
and they provide such an amazing color I
mean just look at that fall color just
in that one plant so I wanted to fill up
the rest of this with just kind of some
bulky stuff so I used Osaka white
ornamental cabbage these are four and
then there's some Osaka Reds just in the
four-inch there's one two three four and
then I popped a yellow pansy here and
there and the duck foot ivy was here
throughout the summer so I left all the
ivy in the boxes and I'd like to be able
to utilize so I didn't have to buy new
Spillers but the pansy is cabbage and
the ivy should do really well all
through the season the only one that
won't make it like through really
cold fall and early winter are the
crotons in which case I'll pop those out
and put some branches in here or maybe
nothing I may not need to use anything
but I think they turned out really
pretty and I'm just noticing that I
overflowed it a little bit when I
watered it the next thing I did other
than cleaning I had a ton of cleaning to
do up here he found another one
it's a cutest thing I had those little
fest inada urns I think is what they
were called there were black little urns
with boxwood cones I took those up and
capped the drip system that I had
running to him so I just cut the drip
system and put a little plug in and I
had to scrub the underneath them because
I didn't put a saucer under him so I
used Magic Erasers please baby give one
to Daddy that's the best part of
gardening now is watching his wonder
over everything so I poured the vinegar
on kind of the square spot that they
earned left and I just let it sit for
like ten minutes and use the magic
eraser most of it came off and I'm sorry
you can't see it but it looked pretty
much like this stone I was really happy
about that it was something I didn't
really think about and then I went ahead
and made this little swag this is all
Naturals and in fact I didn't use any
faux anything up here it's all natural
stuff a lot of it came from my own
garden which is fun I started by putting
some of those little cup hook things
like they'll you have a screw and and
then that little hook I put four of
those right above the molding into the
wall and then I just used paddle wire to
wire some flexible branches up there in
kind of a nice swoopy pattern and I used
grape vines that I took the leaves off
of ants garlic curls willow which I took
the leaves off of and that was kind of
my base structure and then these right
here off of our Chinese Raintree I
harvested these like a couple months ago
and they dried green and then you can
see the brown ones are what they look
like on the tree right now and I thought
that that was really pretty just to use
the two of those together and I really
didn't want to put too much in this
little swag I kind of wanted to keep it
on the simple side there are some fire
light blooms up there and I also have a
couple of quick fire blooms that are I
think they're more toward the center
here they're a little bit more sparse
blooms but to keep
as fire lights like to get him to dry
looking like this instead of wilting I
put him in those little floral vases
like the little green ones they probably
have a proper name but you put like an
individual stem down in it and so they
should be able to drink up that water
and dry naturally on their own like that
and that's typically what I do I usually
if I cut my hydrangeas I put them in
just like an inch or two of water and
let them drink drink that up and then by
the time they've drunk that up they can
just dry and they'll maintain their
color and look really nice so anyway
that's all there was to the swag it was
really quite easy to make and then I
swapped out my wreaths I had some just
boxwood wreaths up here and I put these
walnut trees up which these are actually
they belong to my mom my mom and I made
matching pairs of these walnut wreaths
at the same time like we sat at their
dining room table hot glued walnuts to a
twig wreath form and mine has since it's
fallen apart because I had it on our
last in our last house on the front door
it was full Sun and it like melted the
glue and the walnuts would just fall all
over the place and it eventually fell
apart so I borrowed these from her and
that's what we do like we borrow stuff
from each other all the time so we don't
constantly have to store everything and
or buy everything so it's nice to share
and then you always feel like you have
new stuff do you need some help babe
yeah what's up do you want to pick that
up what helped up you go once you use
the one with the longer stem can you get
it so anyway I did count I estimated
that you would need approximately 260
ish walnuts to make one Reese this size
and we have somebody in our area that
sells huge bags of walnuts for 20
dollars a bag and you can usually get at
least one if not like one and a half
wreaths out of that one bag of walnuts
and then you get your $3 wreath form and
so you're only in it like less than $25
for one wreath and then they last
forever so it was really nice to my mom
to let me borrow those the next thing
was my mat which I've talked about
before I bought this on Amazon because
we have the drip tubing running right
underneath it and we needed a way to
hide it and actually really love it it
turned out perfect and then I put two
big bales of straw which I got those for
six dollars a piece the
once and then the little ones I got at
Joanns for about the same price I think
I had one left over from last year so I
had to buy three and just kind of
created just a fun little fall kind of
look on either side I went out to a
local farm stand and picked up most of
the pumpkins I grew some of them like
the acorn squash and I think Benjamin's
carrying the little or the little baby
one over there I had some fabric here I
have a couple of the autumn colors
rudbeckia which are actually still in
their nursery containers I just wrapped
them in a burlap sack and put them down
in this really cute galvanized pot right
here so I think that's a good look and
these are a zone 5 so I'll be able to
pop these out in the landscape a little
bit later but I really wanted to keep
the amount of maintenance to a minimum
up here because at this point of the
year like I don't want a bunch of
maintenance I'm kind of tired of that
for the year so we only have to come up
and check on two plants every day
everything else is on drip the window
boxes and the estate planters and then
would you like to get up there oh did
they all get up there here there you go
you can sit with your squash so cute and
then this right here is the ambrosia
corn that I grew in our garden so I
seeded it July 8th and we actually did
get I got about 38 years of corn off of
it that were great they filled almost
pretty much all of them were filled all
the way to the top of the cob and then I
just harvested the corn stalks they
didn't get as tall as I would have had I
planted him earlier on and I usually
like to leave him in the garden until
they're fully dry before I bundle them
up like this and you can see that these
still are green which is fine they just
get a little bit more flat and that's
like all the corn stock bundles that I
see for sale like grocery stores or
whatever they're always like so tattered
and flat looking and I'm kind of like
I'm getting a little bit of that vibe
with these as opposed to if you let them
grow in your own garden and just sit
there and dry they're like these
beautiful full gorgeous corn stalks and
you only need like a handful of them to
make a really big looking bundle because
they're just there there's nothing flat
about him I don't know how else to
explain that but I'm really excited
about this area I don't think there's
anything else I missed except for I did
the benches which they don't get that
very often and I had a couple of baskets
on hand that I used the rest of the corn
stalks in I just cut them shorter and
kind of split them between the two and
just put them in there instead of
putting more plants so anyway I think
that this has a really fun fall vibe to
it of course it'll look a little more
full when I get my automate corn squash
back up in the display oh that's no good
anyway guys I hope you enjoyed this
video I think we are gonna tackle maybe
a couple of smaller areas for fall but
it was really fun to do this area and
kind of do it up and just have it look
so cozy and so festive
in fact Benjamin and his cousins are all
gonna have their picture taken right
here this coming weekend we're making it
a fall tradition to do a picture every
single fall with all the cousins so we
can see their growth like this year he
has a brand new baby girl cousin who's I
think how much younger is she than him
Aaron nine months younger yeah she's
like nine months younger than Benjamin
so she's she'll be a new addition in
this picture so it'll be so fun to see
how they grow through the year and have
the all the fall festivity kind of
behind them in all the pictures so
anyway I probably share a picture of
that on Instagram when we get that taken
this weekend so anyway thank you guys so
much for watching this video I hope it
inspired you and motivated you and I
would love to see what you're doing on
your patios by your front door so tag me
on social media on Instagram especially
I usually check all of those and I get
to see what kind of fun stuff you guys
are all doing so anyway thanks again for
watching and we will see you in the next
one bye you and out oh you want to stay
with your squash here I feel a little
bit better if you were back here there
we go
you want a pile yeah one ah one two
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