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Join me as I showcase the beautiful shade-loving plants my family gifted me for Mother’s Day from Ross Evans Garden Centre on the Gold Coast! In this video, I share my unique plant picks for our sunny balcony, their stunning features, and the story behind choosing them. Discover the joy these gorgeous greens bring to our space!

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Transcript
00:00So these are my beautiful new plants. I absolutely love these. So we went shopping for Mother's Day
00:12actually and rather than just going to Bunnings this time we went to a garden centre in Runaway Bay
00:17and these are just so beautiful and special. So we've got this one I've had anyway this is an
00:25olive tree and so this one's going quite well here and and I'm going to then get a
00:30lavender as well to go with this but this and when he chose this giraffe these are called
00:37baby's toes would you believe so that's actually the name of them they're succulents
00:42and they're little baby's toes and I absolutely love them so I think that looks lovely in the giraffe
00:49and then this do you know shamefully I don't actually even know the names of these
00:55but um but they look lovely in the shelves so I bought them this one now there's a little bit
01:03of a mini story about this so these three plants so you can see there's sort of another ground creeper
01:09here and then this fern and then this one so in the actual garden centre they had an arrangement
01:14in a pot similar to that but it was actually on a giraffe statue
01:19and they had the fern in the middle and they had these two ground covers around the edge of the pot
01:26sort of starting to come down like this and I love that arrangement so much and I thought that is just
01:33so beautiful and so I really wanted to get get those plants for here and we went up to the lady who was
01:42working there and with you know I asked her about looking after them and sure enough they're in
01:46their shade basically and Luke just rolled his eyes because these are the sort of plants
01:51I grew up in Victoria in a little country town called Warburton and these are exactly the sort of plants
01:57especially this fern that you'd find in a cooler climate rainforest so so I thought oh of course
02:04I've bought plants that are probably going to maybe a little bit struggle out here
02:08so then the need came for a shading plant so that's the story behind this plant so I actually bought
02:16this plant to shade these plants and then I asked about this one and the lady said this one can
02:23stand full sun so it's going to be fine out here however it does need to acclimatise a little bit so
02:29this is a really good time to plant it we're heading into winter now so that you know you can see the
02:34skies clouded today but even the winter sun is a little bit more gentle obviously in the strong
02:39summer sun so so this is then going to have time to acclimatise to the full sun and these leaves this
02:47is going to grow really tall actually this is probably going to grow like right up there and
02:51the leaves are going to get bigger so these leaves are going to provide a really nice shelter for not
02:57only this one which I think is just so beautiful coming down this pot but also then the fern is going
03:03to go into that pot there and then that ground cover is going to go around that pot and that pillar
03:08too actually provides shade and and even these ones she said that you know planting them at this time of
03:15year is a good time of year because they can just acclimatise to their new environment now in winter
03:21and they'll build up that toughness as as we go but isn't this beautiful like this is probably the
03:27nicest plant arrangement I've had so far in terms of just um obviously the goal is to then have this
03:34creep up coming all the way down to this pot and just the pot is lovely too and I love it I absolutely
03:41love having some beautiful plants and these are actually the nicest plants I've ever had like
03:47I've always kind of just had plants like this which is also really beautiful but these are the first
03:53really sort of special ones I've been able to get from the garden center and I just love them they're just so beautiful
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