We didn't get April showers this year — but the May garden didn't get the memo. 🌸
No talking. No cuts. Just 12 minutes of the meadow in full late spring glory — and every corner I don't usually show you.
This is a one-shot silent walk through Michelle in the Meadow in May — behind the raised beds, along the waterway, through the hidden paths between beds, and past 40 feet of zinnias that are absolutely popping right now. No script. No voiceover. Just music and whatever the garden decided to show up as today.
Sometimes you just need to walk.
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🌿 ZONE 9B LATE SPRING GARDENING — WHAT'S HAPPENING IN MAY
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If you're gardening in Zone 9b North Florida in May, here's where we are in the season:
✅ Cool season crops are done or winding down — if your brassicas are bolting, pull them. They're finished.
✅ Warm season crops are in full swing — peppers, eggplant, long beans, and cucurbits are loving this weather right now.
✅ Zinnias, sunflowers, and heat-tolerant annuals are your best friends through summer — direct sow now for weeks of color.
✅ May is your last good window to get summer crops established before the real Florida heat and rainy season arrive in June. Don't wait.
✅ Mulch everything. Soil moisture retention is everything once temperatures climb past 90°F consistently.
✅ Start thinking about your fall garden now — August arrives faster than you think, and fall is our second (and often better) growing season.
North Florida gardeners: we garden differently than the rest of the country. Our seasons are roughly flipped — cool season runs October through March, warm season March through September. May is late spring for us, not mid-season. Plan accordingly.
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I'm Michelle — a gardener in Northeast Florida, Zone 9b, growing food, flowers, and a lot of Asian vegetables right on a waterway. This channel is where Florida gardening meets real life: the wins, the surprise freezes, the experiments, and occasionally a very opinionated cat named Moose.
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🌸 ABOUT THIS VIDEO
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This is my first one-shot garden video — no talking, no editing beyond a beautiful flower at the open and cleaning up the walking sounds. Just the garden, the music, and 12 minutes of late May in Northeast Florida Zone 9b.
You'll see parts of the meadow that don't make it into regular videos — the spaces between beds, behind the raised beds, along the waterway, and through the paths that connect it all. The 40-foot zinnia row alone was worth picking up the camera.
Zone 9b North Florida gardeners know that May is a transition moment — the cool season is fully behind us and summer is knocking. This garden is right in that sweet spot: warm season crops settling in, flowers at peak, and the waterway doing what it always does in the background.
If you've ever wondered what the full meadow looks like when nobody's talking — this is it.
Filmed May 2026 | Northeast Florida | Zone 9b
No plants were harmed. One cat was mildly inconvenienced.
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