" Now Ruth we're visiting a garden center here which is in New England but this is pretty typical of what you find anywhere in the country right well it is there always varieties of plant material or actually mostly grown at big nurseries in California and in Canada and various places the giant wholesalers giant wholesalers and you find wonderful mature plants and so anywhere in the country you might be able to go to a garden center like this 203040 acres worth of plants."

" And create a theme garden right any period you want they would have the plants obviously was all the roses that are surrounding us that's something that."

" You know would provide the material for Syria and English garden an English garden it would would a colonial household have had rose bushes also oh yes they say who loved their gardens and they imported plants from England. Very early on. And them. It's they imported seeds and roses and lilacs and all kinds of things now what's the most beautiful rose. The most beautiful rose is the rose you pick in the morning. That's in perfect condition. This is black eyed Susan thrown my gosh yes look at this and look -- this fight."

" Now this is something that would have been wild in a meadow -- this is a wildflower. "

" And it grows out in the meadow but it's only about back -- My foot her foot and a half about a foot and a half how have they gotten this weather in its in a raised bed that's part of the well part of the reason is that they fertilize it every week with a -- liquid plant fertilizer. And if you do that you can have. Giant plants to what do you want giant plants or not as I'm not too keen on putting them much fertilizer in what -- There's nothing like minority that's what the -- blazing aspect there Ruth that's Joe pile weight which is normally about that high or that high maybe it's a -- in the autumn joy and that's heavily fans that's been heavily --"

" And up. I giant -- I know that these would be appropriate and colonial garden oh yeah you've made a whole selection that are is down farther in the garden center so let's go look at it. Now some this it looks sort of fancy -- what are these."

" They're -- areas right well is it tell me area and the colonialists loved healthier. They had them all over this is going to be sort of the central piece of our central van."

" And they're hard to it's a juniper today and -- it's been clipped to create three circular globes. And Ruth is helping along this winter in the nursery and sometimes they do grow quickly."

" What I want it I wanted people to -- you know but this is not for the lazy gardener this has to be done about once a month got to be but. Neat you know now this is probably an expensive treatment is 20250. Dollars wow it's taken four to five years to grow this way."

" Now the roses that you've chosen are also very old fashioned looking."

" Well name they're the kind that they would've had they liked pink very much and of course they didn't have our hybrid varieties. You notice they have a center in them they they're not shaped like fifteen roses that are right the roses that you order from the florist for your girlfriend these are different these are bush roses and they're much easier to take care of and their much party here in -- learning better. Oh yes they do everything -- susceptible to black spot and stuff like that. To some degree yes I would say so and and they are the correct rose for the period and they will give our garden that feeling and happens and this is one might be Sharaa of all times I drain and over ten -- now would this have been found in the colonial garden on this is interesting because this. Was imported to this country the year that the revolution ended how cool and they're blue you now open depending on the acidity of the soil. Ha when it's alkaline or neutral they're pink and then as you get more acid they turn blue because of the -- ability of the iron and the aluminum."

" My cat time so that you want to guarantee that you have blue right Regis you have to you have to add aluminum aluminum sulfate absolutely."

" This is and this is the native cedar cedar called red cedar to -- and juniper. And we're putting two of these in to be sentry plants at the entrance. To sort of tell people where to come and so that's an interesting comment and it was a common landscape concept at the time they also grow very well and it seemed appropriate so they'll be close to our front door and then no actually they'll be out on the street there there -- a little they're little big they're gonna get too big need be near the front door oh that's an and they -- there actually sentry plants to come into the front garden I see very good. And then. The lilacs all of the lilacs yes. Then the lilacs were -- very great favorite they were imported very very early when the -- first settled into the country. And where the comfort they come they actually come from southern Europe for their hybrid dies in France. So that they're called French lilacs and your dedicating how nice to view the bush is thanking you well this is an early summer bloom right at this isn't it yes this is sold at an early summer or or may bloom to let him about the story -- that comes later. That was written when Lincoln died lilacs last in the door yard blue icing and red star drooped in the western sky and then we've got about twenty potted. What are they they're not -- are there these little colleagues. The -- going to surround our little colonial garden with these little. Round bushes of holly they loved. The -- they loved little forms they had a lot of people who sat out there did nothing but -- you know he's so we've put holly in because I wouldn't box have been more appropriate box would have been appropriate. But it hasn't tendency to turn yellow. And then it smells like cats oh."