Another good reason to create a sitting area is that sometimes you just need to sit. I enjoyed this video & watch the channel regularly from North Carolina.
Could not have loved or "needed" this anymore 💙 ( I don't winter well) I could have watched for hours ! Think I will go back and spend some time in the old videos 😊 Perfect time to rethink some areas ! Thank you and many blessings 💙💙💙
Changing things around is one of my favorite garden activities. It's great to find a new use for old 'stuff'. Large pieces of broken flower pots or roof tiles can be sunk into a slope to create planting pockets as well. This can also prevent erosion. I'm a big fan of your retro-fit potager! The sundial just elevated the entire area. I also noticed that first table says 'Singer' on the base, so I assume you painted an old sewing machine table white, and repurposed it. Awesome!
Yes, you're so right. The sewing machine table was bought from an auction in the 1970s by my mother. We painted it and gave it a new granite top. It's been with me since I first got a garden in 1986, and I love it.
The only thing I like better than the word “stumpery” is a real, live stumpery! This is especially inspiring today because I have a few stumps sitting around that I need to do something artistic with. Thank you, as always, for the inspiration!
I loved this video so much. The mangled gate painted red is brilliant. I bet metal recycling yards are filled with many great sculptures. Your potager garden looks very elevated with the sundial and angled corners. Well done! 🌿🌿🌿🌸
Oh, this video was exactly what I needed today. It made me feel so much better because we've had such a dreary winter. I'd much rather have snow than the rain. Thank you so much!
Great ideas! I’m glad you mentioned how rewinding is not just doing nothing. It’s also a managed space. It’s a big mistake people make assuming you can just “ go native” Actually native gardens are also managed spaces. Also your idea about green Amur - I think you can do a video just on that. So that people know what kind of seeds make a good green mature.
My very large Elder Tree which l love, with it's textural bark and architecture, got insects inside and limbs were beginning to sound Hollow. So l had a tree man come and cut the branches off leaving stumps about 6', each one varying slightly. Now the risk of it hitting the Conservatory was taken away, l shall use the large stumps left as a bird feeding station. The logs will be used to make Stumperies in an area that lacks interest. The twigs and bits l cannot use will be burnt and turned into Potash. Total saving about £50/£60 that it would have cost to take away logs and debris. So glad this task was completed just two weeks ago. Thank you for this video Alexandra, it got me thinking about other areas l could revamp 🧑🌾🐿️🦋🤗
Thank you for these two videos they were just what I needed as I look out at the snow in my back year. I am in Ottawa Canada and it is the time of year where I start thinking of revamping my garden. I just ordered the Rewilding you have suggested. Good to see you again.
Thanks for the great ideas. We've been tending to our cluttered corners fall as we had unusually warm temperatures last fall. We still have some work to do and will look at incorporating some of your ideas.
Thank you for the helpful ideas. Now’s the time to start imagining how to improve the garden since before we know it the time to get busy and dirty will be upon us!
Lovley tips. Thank you. I hope it is ok to share this with my followers? Our gardens in south of Norway is crushed with snow. Min garden is under a layer of nearly 2 meter. Before that snow it was snowing vet cement. We need all the inspiration we can get now.
Good ideas. Will use some of them. I don't like sculptures in gardens because so much land has been built upon, that I want my garden to be as dense as possible. I do have fountains with water plants in them. That's just me.
Love the video your garden is lovely also just watched the one before this part one some lovely ideas in both must try and tidy up the messy parts of mine and use some of the ideas from both videos my garden is large especially the back with a big area in the middle between the border hedge and the back of the house it looks very bare needs some thing but I don't know what
Hi. At time spot 2:02 when you are talking about moving things around you show a new part of your garden to me where you have 8 chairs and table under a roof. Do you have a video on this corner of the garden I can watch please? I like what you have done.
So many great tips. I'm building several areas up in my yard. I'll definitely use some of your tips. I'll definitely check out your rock garden video. I have a slope where I have some downed trees that needs attention . Love your channel.❤
Definitely! He's slightly hard to shoot at the moment, because he sticks pretty close to me, so I can't get far enough away to film, but as he grows up I think he will enjoy a starring role. :)
Thank you for these great ideas. I have a small shady garden that would probably work well with a stumpery of sorts. I did also wonder if I might donate the space to a horticultural or deisgn student that needs somewhere to practice their designs. Do you think that it would be feasible? Do you have any advice about how to find such a person? I would really welcome your advice.
Trainee gardeners often work on the big gardens while they're training, so if your local area has a big garden (for example, one that opens to the public) it could be worth discussing this with them. I haven't heard of anyone doing this before, but I think it's still worth exploring. If you have a horticultural college nearby that would be a good starting point to enquire, but they are few and far between. Good luck!
Do you have a source that we can acquire interesting stumps from? I’ve a few interesting branches from my own old trees and some foraged from a nearby wood, but I don’t really know where I could get a really fascinating gnarly stump *from* ?!! Can you buy them anywhere? You can’t really lever one out from a wood, I would’ve thought that was either impractical, illegal or both!! 🥴
It's a bit of a hunt as stumperies are quite unusual still, but you could try asking the management of local estates or any woodland trust, also tree surgeons. It's also worth trying Facebook Marketplace or Google. There's a bit about this in the Stumperies video at 03:10 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-vqQMq_RuiAs.html and you're right about impractical and illegal!
