Hello and welcome to the Tudor cottage diaries a small community on Facebook I’m Heidi our journey to this fairytale 600 year old cottage . My childhood was spent growing up on a council estate in the 70sand 80s , working parents taught me how to dig deep and work for your dreams, I married young divorced feeling younger and looked deeper for a connection . I married my husband David and from the outset we bought the renovation projects moving 5 times up the property ladder renovating the worst houses . We experienced Infertility and after two IVF journeys we had Archie now 16 . We both have always had full time jobs and did the renovations in all our spare time, the hard work paid off. In February 2020 hearing of a world lockdown we bought this cottage over 600 years old . We live here with Lincoln and 18 chickens.
Hi again heidi, just to say, The sick looking mock orange near the shepherd hut actually looks like a choisya called sun dance and is supposed to be that lime green (unless in deep shade). It has little white scented flowers in spring and the odd few in late summer too. (I guess that's the plant you mean?). It has an added bonus of being evergreen too.
Happy birthday lovely lady! Thank you for sharing your amazing gifts with us. Would you know where the metal entrance gates/supports were from as i can see a little label haha. I hope you had an amazing day heidi. Loads of love davena x
Belated Happy Birthday Heidi. Hope you had a great day. You had some lovely gifts. Your garden is still looking great and I particularly like all the colour in front of your cottage. I must do better next year and keep up with the feeding! xxx
Beautiful garden tour Heidi. I love seeing around your garden with you. You inspired myself and my daughter to revamp our wildlife pond last week because it had split. We emptied it all out very carefully and to our delight found 5 baby newts! I'm putting in a new rockery around it but making it wildlife friendly. Looking forward to the next video x
Heidi just stumbled across your video and heard you mention you visited the Garden Society at Fair Oak. I was wondering if you lived near by as I live very near there myself. I love your cottage and looking forward to watching jour garden journey.
Hello I used to live in Eastleigh, I still work at the B &Q but moved 4 years ago to the new forest, so this was my old stomping ground , we nearly bought Warwick house in fair oak but choose our cottage instead x
Hi. Thanks for this beautiful tour of your cottage garden and happy birthday to you. I am wondering if you have any echinacea plants in your garden as we have Heavy clay soil and it’s very wet winter in the uk Appreciate your help
Bonjour Heidi, je trouve votre jardin magnifique et j aime l ambiance d automne. Une vraie carte postale. Félicitations pour tout votre travail de cette année . J adore vos nichoirs. Bon anniversaire en retard.❤❤❤
Thank you, Heidi, thoroughly enjoyed your tour. Did you try the rooting of the cosmos? I have recently shifted house and the garden is begging for my attention. Still got cold winds and there was a frost last night so I'm holding back. My turn is coming, I hope.
My cosmos failed miserably this year the sowing and the cuttings that said 3 plants did better than normal and are holding colour on the roundabout, a new garden 🪴 wow the excitement, hope you get a decent spring and summer and get planing x x
My jaw dropped when you said 1553! That is amazing . I would love to see a tour of the inside and the outside is beautiful! Your garden is beautiful 👍❤️❤️❤️😎
We had hail stones too Heidi then this week it's been beautiful. So nice to get lots of jobs done but there's an autumnal feel in the evenings. Your garden is looking great.
I feel as though we bypassed summer, i remember spring and i know it’s autumn but missed out summer the garden and mother nature were in a coma i think x
What a wonderful, cozy, garden! Love the patio, flowers, hedges and the green house. It's beautiful. I just found your channel and will be watching your other videos as well.
Bonjour, j aime beaucoup cette arche. Je pense que c est très dur physiquement d agrandir le contour de l etang mais ça va être beau. Le temps change énormément en ce moment. On a beaucoup de travail au jardin pour qu' il soit prêt pour passer l hiver. Votre courage sera récompensé au printemps. Super travail.💪👋👋👋
Amazing ! Don't you wish we could actually speed up our work as easily as the camera? I love your plant selection and the random placement. Here in the US most gardens are so evenly planted. I plant like you and the result is so natural looking. Thanks for sharing 😊.
Love the victorian edging Heidi. Good job done . Gosh watched your shorts you alsohad the terrific rainfall we had up in Lancashire never stopped for 24 hours. At least done ypur newly dug border good
Your baskets and pots are looking amazing Heidi. Mine are starting to look a bit bedraggled. I'm good at deadheading but need to improve with my feeding and do it more regularly. I can tell by yours the difference it makes. Love the yellow flowers which I think are perennial sunflowers. Gorgeous pops of colour.
Thank you as always for sharing your home and garden heidi. I really enjoy the gardening videos. It gives me so much inspiration. I love watching how you place plants and what you plant nearby. I rush out to my own garden and look to see if I can replicate similar (which is often no as its a small garden haha, but you do give me some lovely ideas). We both have a love for david austin roses. I fear I had too many roses and not enough shrubs so I gave a few roses away this year and swapped them for some plain greenery .(boring!) I'll look forward to watching your new trees grow. I've planted a few trees this year and still have a magnolia in a pot that is dying to get into the ground (I love magnolias, providing the frost stays away. I have 4 different ones all still under 5 years old). Mine aren't huge varieties but like you I'll keep my trees pruned to a manageable size. Happy gardening lovely x
You have a good eye for design Heidi as bringing out that border has made such a difference. When I was a little girl growing up in Cornwall, we used to go to a beach called Gunwalloe and the highlight for me was when we drove past a thatched cottage. There's something magical about them.
Wendy as a child I lived in a villiage near Winchester, near our house was mrs Chivers cottage a twin of mine, with mud floors and pumped water and no electricity, I looked after her for two weeks work experience in the village home, she was born in that cottage it was her family’s life, I drew that cottage at school but was told I had to draw the square brick house 🏠 my mum has that original drawing on the back it says one day I will live here… technically I do but it took 47 years to accomplish
@@Thetudorcottagediaries What a lovely story Heidi. My brother lives in a renovated mill and his nearest neighbours (a brother and sister) had lived in their house since childhood and used to tell us that there was just a beaten track where the road is now and they'd walk miles to school even in deep snow. They used to collect water from my brother's property when they were children then it was pumped to their house years later. These people had such interesting stories but they sadly died within weeks of each other last year. Folks were such hard workers back then and didn't have it easy.
I hope their story was captured by local historians, we had so many characters back in the past sadly we are all going to have the same out looks, same dreams and have to keep free speech private the way the world is going …
@@prairiegirl9770 that’s so kind, hope all is well with you, we are heading to autumn/fall far to quickly just had the first of the logs delivered for winter ,
Hi Heidi, I'm the other way around and write down what I've done in the garden! I always think you're amazing what you do in yours as it's so much bigger than mine. Gardens are a lot of hard work and the jobs are never ending but I'd rather be outside than in doing housework! Hope the recent bad winds didn't do any damage in your neck of the woods. xxx
In the summer what’s house work ? Having a Tudor cottage means it’s always dark so I don’t see the mess lol winds have been a pain but not too bad hope your garden weathers it well x
