Uploaded June 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
I've done a couple episodes (#194 & #215) on the gardens at the Alta Vista estate on Lake Geneva in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin which were created for the purposes of the 2025 Lake Geneva Garden Club's garden walk. The walk occurs on July 16 so the press is on to coordinate bloom times, manage growth and fill in holes in the now maturing gardens.
Plants mentioned in this video (in order):
Anemone canadensis
Nepeta 'Neptune'
Sanguisorba
Eupatorium perfoliatum 'Milk and Cookies'
Aster 'Twilight'
Coreopsis 'Electric Avenue'
Penstemon Mystica
Stachys officinalis 'Hummelo'
Rudbeckia 'Sweet as Honey'
Origanum laevigatum 'Herrenhausen'
Limonium latifolium
Perovskia atriplicifolia 'Little Spire'
Echinacea 'Prairie Splendor'
Echinacea pallida
Bidens alba (Common beggarticks)
Allium atropurpureum
Amsonia hubrichtii 'Butterscotch'
Dahlia 'Mystic' Series
Kalimeris integrifolia 'Daisy Mae'
Skyscraper Salvia
Gaura lindheimeri
Calamagrostis x acutiflora 'Karl Foerster'
Phlox 'Blue Paradise'
Nepeta subsessilis
Penstemon digitalis 'Dark Towers'
Lobelia siphilitica
Helenium autumnale 'Potter's Wheel'
Eupatorium (Joe Pye Weed)
Monarda bradburiana
Astilbe chinensis 'Vision In Red'
Stachys 'Summer Crush'
Persicaria amplexicaulis 'Firetail'
Veronica longifolia 'Very Van Gogh'
Like, subscribe, and share! Leave comments and questions and Roy will do his best to reply! Closed Caption is now available! Activate with the CC button on the bottom right of the video window.
visit roydiblik.com for design ideas and some fundamental fundamentals!
👉 Recommended reading 🤓
📗 The Well-Tended Perennial Garden amzn.to/3GMieTG
📗 Permaculture One: A Perennial Agriculture for Human Settlements amzn.to/3YJVQze
📗 Food Not Lawns: How to Turn Your Yard into a Garden and Your Neighborhood into a Community amzn.to/3OO5Brw
📗 Permaculture: Principles and Pathways Beyond Sustainability amzn.to/3OJSasD
📗 Piet Oudolf At Work amzn.to/3TL1Ntd
📗 Wild flowers and how to grow them by Edwin Francis Steffek amzn.to/42GAc0k
📗 Field Guide to Wisconsin Sedges: An Introduction to the Genus Carex
amzn.to/3FBA5cD
📗 Gardening with Grasses, Michael King & Pite Oudolf amzn.to/3TtQ5Dd
📗 The Gardener's Essential by Gertrude Jekyll amzn.to/3XbHBAV
📗 The Well-Tempered Garden by C. Lloyd amzn.to/3Yp30aQ
📗 Flora of the Chicago Region amzn.to/3kZcOKf
📗 The World-Ending Fire by Wendell Berry amzn.to/3IuiB0J
📗 Gardening With Perennials Month By Month amzn.to/3k9NCy1
📗 Tokachi Millennium Forest: Pioneering a New Way of Gardening With Nature amzn.to/3lcbsba
📗 In Praise Of Shadows amzn.to/3ljBvgq
📘 The Hidden Half Of Nature amzn.to/3dkmYzn
📕 Perennial Garden Plants by Graham Stuart Thomas: amzn.to/37mGvM7
📗 Planting Designs by Piet Oudolf and Noel Kingsbury: amzn.to/3oTYKOF
📘 Planting The Natural Garden by Piet Oudolf and Henk Gerritsen: amzn.to/2IRvglg
📙 Seedheads In The Garden by Noel Kingsbury: amzn.to/37ji6H7
📙 Know Maintenance by Roy Diblik: amzn.to/3oWt9fy
📕 A Small Porch by Wendell Berry: amzn.to/3gPLO9T
📘 Jewels of the Plains by Claude A. Barr: amzn.to/3J0yFsM
📕 The Art of Planting or the Planter's Handbook by Graham Stuart Thomas: amzn.to/3B9l3t8
📘 Hardy Perennials by Alan Bloom: amzn.to/3aRh6hY
(Some of these links may be 'affiliate' links. You'll pay the same price but I may make a small commission if you purchase through these links. This will help support my channel and keep the content coming! Thank you!!)
🎥 Produced by Geneva Lake Creative genevalakecreative.com
✍ For a design consultation contact Roy at roydiblik@gmail.com
📕 Buy Roy's book here: amzn.to/3oWt9fy
👉 Buy the Spear Head Spade here: amzn.to/3b7ygWt
#roydiblik #northwindperennialfarm
I've done a couple episodes (#194 & #215) on the gardens at the Alta Vista estate on Lake Geneva in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin which were created for the purposes of the 2025 Lake Geneva Garden Club's garden walk. The walk occurs on July 16 so the press is on to coordinate bloom times, manage growth and fill in holes in the now maturing gardens.
Plants mentioned in this video (in order):
Anemone canadensis
Nepeta 'Neptune'
Sanguisorba
Eupatorium perfoliatum 'Milk and Cookies'
Aster 'Twilight'
Coreopsis 'Electric Avenue'
Penstemon Mystica
Stachys officinalis 'Hummelo'
Rudbeckia 'Sweet as Honey'
Origanum laevigatum 'Herrenhausen'
Limonium latifolium
Perovskia atriplicifolia 'Little Spire'
Echinacea 'Prairie Splendor'
Echinacea pallida
Bidens alba (Common beggarticks)
Allium atropurpureum
Amsonia hubrichtii 'Butterscotch'
Dahlia 'Mystic' Series
Kalimeris integrifolia 'Daisy Mae'
Skyscraper Salvia
Gaura lindheimeri
Calamagrostis x acutiflora 'Karl Foerster'
Phlox 'Blue Paradise'
Nepeta subsessilis
Penstemon digitalis 'Dark Towers'
Lobelia siphilitica
Helenium autumnale 'Potter's Wheel'
Eupatorium (Joe Pye Weed)
Monarda bradburiana
Astilbe chinensis 'Vision In Red'
Stachys 'Summer Crush'
Persicaria amplexicaulis 'Firetail'
Veronica longifolia 'Very Van Gogh'
Like, subscribe, and share! Leave comments and questions and Roy will do his best to reply! Closed Caption is now available! Activate with the CC button on the bottom right of the video window.
visit roydiblik.com for design ideas and some fundamental fundamentals!
👉 Recommended reading 🤓
📗 The Well-Tended Perennial Garden amzn.to/3GMieTG
📗 Permaculture One: A Perennial Agriculture for Human Settlements amzn.to/3YJVQze
📗 Food Not Lawns: How to Turn Your Yard into a Garden and Your Neighborhood into a Community amzn.to/3OO5Brw
📗 Permaculture: Principles and Pathways Beyond Sustainability amzn.to/3OJSasD
📗 Piet Oudolf At Work amzn.to/3TL1Ntd
📗 Wild flowers and how to grow them by Edwin Francis Steffek amzn.to/42GAc0k
📗 Field Guide to Wisconsin Sedges: An Introduction to the Genus Carex
amzn.to/3FBA5cD
📗 Gardening with Grasses, Michael King & Pite Oudolf amzn.to/3TtQ5Dd
📗 The Gardener's Essential by Gertrude Jekyll amzn.to/3XbHBAV
📗 The Well-Tempered Garden by C. Lloyd amzn.to/3Yp30aQ
📗 Flora of the Chicago Region amzn.to/3kZcOKf
📗 The World-Ending Fire by Wendell Berry amzn.to/3IuiB0J
📗 Gardening With Perennials Month By Month amzn.to/3k9NCy1
📗 Tokachi Millennium Forest: Pioneering a New Way of Gardening With Nature amzn.to/3lcbsba
📗 In Praise Of Shadows amzn.to/3ljBvgq
📘 The Hidden Half Of Nature amzn.to/3dkmYzn
📕 Perennial Garden Plants by Graham Stuart Thomas: amzn.to/37mGvM7
📗 Planting Designs by Piet Oudolf and Noel Kingsbury: amzn.to/3oTYKOF
📘 Planting The Natural Garden by Piet Oudolf and Henk Gerritsen: amzn.to/2IRvglg
📙 Seedheads In The Garden by Noel Kingsbury: amzn.to/37ji6H7
📙 Know Maintenance by Roy Diblik: amzn.to/3oWt9fy
📕 A Small Porch by Wendell Berry: amzn.to/3gPLO9T
📘 Jewels of the Plains by Claude A. Barr: amzn.to/3J0yFsM
📕 The Art of Planting or the Planter's Handbook by Graham Stuart Thomas: amzn.to/3B9l3t8
📘 Hardy Perennials by Alan Bloom: amzn.to/3aRh6hY
(Some of these links may be 'affiliate' links. You'll pay the same price but I may make a small commission if you purchase through these links. This will help support my channel and keep the content coming! Thank you!!)
🎥 Produced by Geneva Lake Creative genevalakecreative.com
✍ For a design consultation contact Roy at roydiblik@gmail.com
📕 Buy Roy's book here: amzn.to/3oWt9fy
👉 Buy the Spear Head Spade here: amzn.to/3b7ygWt
#roydiblik #northwindperennialfarm
