So here's that liverwort. It's actually really cool and it loves water. I mean it's growing right on top of the rocks. If I pull it apart you can see there's not really much to it. There's not even really that much of a root structure. Let's see if we can wash some of that off. But yeah, it just kind of grows this this weird mass. It's almost like cabbage. I wonder if the coy like it. Let's throw some in for them. See what comes back. Oh, they love it. Look at that. You guys are discovering something at the same time I am. They love liverwort. Hey guys, welcome back to Team Aquiscape. We're going to finish up the tour of plants around my yard. They actually worked out kind of good because a lot of plants the first time I videotaped them weren't quite budding and leafed completely out and things have changed quite a bit in three to four days and you guys probably are seeing the same thing in your garden. It's still a little cold out here. It's probably in the mid-50s but managed crazy. The flowers on the contort and louise the crab have all dropped but other flowers are coming up. So let's kind of go around the yard and finish this tour and we'll see where it goes. So while I'm sitting here sitting kind of like in my outdoor kitchen area for me, he even talked about this part in the design a little bit. What's kind of cool about the outdoor kitchen is how close it is to the back door which of course is the kitchen right in here. I was never a big fan of grilling until I made it super easy just to walk from there to there and then when we come over here you can kind of just overlook the whole pond. But this tree last week wasn't about to flower and in another three days it'll be covered in white flowers all over the place. So this is a nanny berry. It gets pretty big. It's about as tall as it's going to get it gets about 15 feet tall. But notice how it's really blocked out the pavilion back there and the purpose of that is just try to create some of that mystery. So when you walk into the backyard you're more focused on this. There's that contort of louise the crab. Lost off its flowers but still has a pretty cool shape. The beach tree. Look at how much bigger the leaves have gotten. It's such a small amount of time. It's crazy. That appellation red bud still holds in strong which is why I love love red buds because they hold their flowers so much longer than all the other stuff. But we'll kind of move through here. Look at the hostess. How much bigger they've gotten in just a few days. Keeping flocks is all starting to flower. All right so as we move this way we come over into here. This is kind of my pavilion you can see it's a little disheveled. That's a word. Got my music playing. I said my water treatments out here. Cooler from the weekend. Kids swing coming over here at the main waterfall. The dandelion right there just slowly driving me insane. But a couple great plants up in here. One is this one right up in there. That's sharp truce one. Creeping Jenny. It's such an easy, easy plant to grow. It can grow in water. It can grow on land. It's great for softening the transition from where the water ends and where the land begins. You can see it just kind of creeping out over the rocks. Over there is that bright, bright, sharp truce color. It's a pop. Doesn't flower or anything. But it's a great accent here in there. Be careful with it though because it can spread quite a bit. The nice thing is the root structure is not very deep so to pin it out is pretty after this. Another cool plant that showed up in here is obviously moss. There's lots of moss kind of just all over. All of that just naturally showed up. And if you look really close right there that's liverwort. So there, down there, it's got a showing up over there. That stuff must have come in on the ducks because I sure didn't plant it. And it was all over the place over there last year. The ducks actually came in an eight quite a bit of it. But another section of my pond has it all over the place. And I'll show you that a little bit later. So as we're sitting here, you can see the candles on the weeping scotch pine have gotten quite big. When these things start opening up, you can smell them quite a bit. It's really got that strong evergreen scent to it. Down here, there's kind of a volunteer. It's a tiger-eyed sumac that ran from over here. But I love when these plants are just kind of happened through other areas. It looks incredible. I've got another quick question for you. While I'm standing here, give me your opinion on something that I'm struggling to make a decision on. You see this weeping scotch pine? I'm debating on actually cutting this one off and opening up that line aside a little bit more. Or do I continue to train it to get all the way out over into this space and create more of like a half moon type window as that thing matures? And it will. Like I keep cutting it back every year. But I think it's at the point now where I can start training it with some branches and bamboo and stuff and get it into come over just a quick side. All right, we come back over here. There's that black lace elderberry. You can see how much the leaves have opened up on there. The cationy ester, not the cationy ester. It's even got small little red berries on it. So it's covered with those little red berries. Those will be gone soon. And then the rest of the years is kind of a nice green carpet. Passes are filling in. That bridal wreath plant is it ready to just explode. That thing is going to be covered in flowers. And as I think it's bigger and bigger, eventually all of that white is going to be touching the water in here, which is going to look incredible. You can see some of the allium spring bulbs are starting to pop up. None of those guys were open a few days ago. I love planting all the bulbs, especially this time of year, because everything's still kind of sleeping and slowly waking up. And so that trick of planting a few bulbs every year, whether that few is 10 bulbs a year or 100 bulbs a year or a thousand bulbs a year, just discipline yourself to do it. And you'll really, really enjoy the reward you get every spring. I love always seeing this allium come up every year and the tulips were a new thing for me, but it looks fantastic. That hydrange is really filling in. As soon as these tulips die off, that hydrangea every year comes all the way out to about halfway on the rock here. There's a crimson queen Japanese maple sitting back in there. Let's get in close because you can really, really pay attention to how different the leaf structure is on this compared to the purple, good Japanese maple. So it's really, really graceful. It doesn't get very tall. It might come up to like a four. I've even seen some five foot in the Illinois, but very rarely are you going to see them that big, especially in Illinois. The Japanese sweet flag, the allium, all just awesome plants. As we come around, oh, why we're here, I almost forgot. So here's that liver work. It's actually really cool and it loves water. I mean, it's growing right on top of the rocks. If I pull it apart, you can see there's not really much to it. There's not even really that much of a root structure. Let's see if we can wash some of that off, but yeah, it just kind of grows as this weird mass. It's almost like cabbage. I wonder if the coy like it. Let's throw some in for them. See, it comes back and oh, they love it. There, there's a bunch. Look at them tear it apart. That's so awesome. Look at that. You guys are discovering something at the same time I am. They love liver work. I think they're now thinking that they're getting their normal food though. Let's take it. We'll continue to move around. I love different types of evergreens. This is a stone Swiss pine. It'll get big. The reason I planted it here is because these junipers back and through here are really thinning out quite a bit. You can see some dead branches up in there. I lost one last year. There was another one over there that I lost not too long ago. I'm not really confident I'm the help of these guys and what's going to happen in the future. I've planted a tree for the future. So if those tend to die off, then this can start coming up and kind of fill in that space. I've got another weeping white pine that's called angel falls. It stays way more slender than some of the other weeping white pines. Way more compact. And I just like the different textures against each other. And as this like gets thinned out and the ginkgo tree starts developing that'll just be a cool little accent back in there. We got a bald cypress back in here and we're getting a little bit away from the pond. Probably should have moved the mower. It's not super photogenic, it was a favorite plant of mine. This is a Japanese lace bark pine. It always struggled back in here and as these arb's got bigger and bigger, it really kind of blocked a lot of its sunlight. I also think it gets a little bit too much water here. There's a above ground pool that gets drained every now and then over into here. And I think the wet feet on this thing just ultimately killed it off. And so I got this new hemlock. It's called golden duchess. It gets about four to five feet tall. This guy's about six feet tall, but it loves dent shade. Kind of has that weepy structure to it. I love hemlocks too because they have that softer needle. And it's just a cool contrast between some of the stuff happening in here. So I'm excited to pull that out and get that in and plan for the future. If you come back over and through here, you can see my tunnel that I've been working on for the last five years. And I think they're almost touching not quite. I mean, it's so close, right? So maybe one more year after this year, this will be solid. So every year, I just kind of give this a haircut, give it a haircut, never let it get too long. If you cut it back too hard, it's going to get really brown in there. And you can see how we still get a lot of new growth in here if I just keep consistently giving it a haircut. So that's really my pond. There's that Marshmeregold. One of my favorite plants, you know, all the flowers are now gone. They were here last week. There's a few left, but it's a great plant in the spring. Flowers early, early early in the season before anything else in my garden flowers. And then flowers will hold for about two to three weeks before they take off. The rest of the year, it just kind of looks a lot like ladies mantle. So here's ladies mantle. And then here's that Marshmeregold. So they're very, very similar. And so it really looks like a big mess. So that's a wrap, guys. I mean, that's the garden. If you saw something off in the distance that I didn't explain, if you saw something that you want to see a little closer, if you have any other questions, even plants that you're not sure of, you think this would be good by the garden or not by the garden. Comment, guys. Just comment, comment, comment. And I'll see if we can't answer a bunch of those for you. Hey, this was so much fun. Thanks for taking the time out of your day to join me on the tour, plants around the pond. And we'll do it again next week. See you soon. Like, comment, subscribe. Bye.