Hi Mike, just wanted to tell you how much you inspire me to make my garden into something more. Your newest creation with the planters etc., that area is worthy of having a display at one of those flower shows . It is outstanding!!!! Thank you for sharing your "how to" information.
Mike, you are the Willy Wonka of gardening!! I thought this project was perfect but adding that cozy corner with all the beautiful chartreuse color and that stunning wisteria branch has taken it to another level. The wreath around the door, the lanterns , the fence and that adorable wheel barrow. I am excited to see how this area will evolve over the summer. Thank you for always bringing magic and whimsy in all your videos and sparking our imaginations as well.
You are my inspiration! It is beyond my imagination!!! You have found your true gift! I just can’t stop watching you create natural beauty! God has blessed you!
If l only had a smidgeon of your creativity!! I can't tell you how much l love this. Such an amazing surprise to come around a bend and see the color, the texture, the fantasy... you, sir, are a true wizard in the garden !!!
Lollygagging is what my family says for strolling somewhere. Even with pruners in hand😊. I ❤ what you've created and of course I've watched all the way to the end!! Also, old ivy branches can be very gnarly😮 and twisted! I have a few to use near my pond. Looking forward to the next 'room'.
Very cool! Your updates added the concept of an older, more mature garden. I love the ladder addition (maybe add one or two rusty paint cans with a colorful tall plant and maybe some vining ivy cascading down the rungs from the can)…. This corner would be very cool at night with so many lighting possibilities. A couple thoughts, the obvious is light the lanterns with simulated flame bulbs. Maybe a soft spot light on the sun. String of lights across the tops of the fence posts. Small ferry type lights weaved through the dead tree trunk in the center planter…. It’s amazing how the creative part of the brain gets stimulated with so many ideas in such a small space (one corner) of a garden. Thank you for sharing one of your gardens corners..
Mike, you are incredible! I love this episode!! Yes please provide the link to those planters, I want a few. I think I would be tempted to paint and distress the brick path in that section yellow. (Yellow brick road, lol) but then again that would look somewhat silly I guess. I love watching you and your progress with the garden!!! ❤❤❤
Love what you created. So glad you decided to recreat this garden again. I am very arti🎉stic and the last few years I started gardening, so I am looking forward to the other room to get.some ideals fir my garden. I am in the process of redoing mine. Been sick last 2 years and now I need to fix mine again also since I got well.
You could wrap wire or even matching fairy lights around the old fence to make it feel more like the lines of an old fence and to make the little door glow at night
You keep on outdoing yourself with your amazing imagination! Love all you do! Wondering if you'd like to put a rusty chain link dangling between the fence posts in front of the sun / moon face? I can visualize it, and you like rusty things. I feel that the fence posts by themselves needs something between them to tie them to be a fence.
Your garden addition turned out beautiful! So creative with all the different elements you used, to create the different elevations. Love the fence pickets.
Love the piece of "Hobbitton" in your back yard. My yard is small so I make whimsical faux gardens in miniature in baskets, pieces of wood...whatever. It's fun for me, makes me happy!
It’s always fun watching you create. Love the outcome of the room 😉. Your garden is so eclectic and flows from one space to the other. Love to take a stroll with all your lighting. Lovely indeed! ✨💖✨
Your channel was suggested to me today. Usually I just stick to my few gardeners. I am so glad I stopped by. What great space (room) in your garden. Thank you for sharing. Just like Arnold, I will say "I'll be back" ❤
Your garden is EVERYTHING ❤ maybe plant that broken railroad lantern with something cool like a mini fern or a birds nest ,or a cool succulent 😊 inspiration overload !😊
You are so darn creative! Every time I thought you were done with that feature, you would ad 2 or 3 more elements that made it look even better! Love the lanterns! The fence looks good to me. Small plants would look cute on each step of the ladder. Again, I'm amazed at your creativity. I love your channel! Thanks so much for sharing!
I’m late to the conversation as this little gem popped up on my feed just this morning. We’re of the same mindset in using available ‘stuff’ to repurpose into art. I live on a wooded acre+ and am building pocket gardens linked by trails. Each to discover within a tidy forest floor. Working in the three dimensions lets the observers enter the creation and yours is a lovely world. Thanks for sharing.
I really like what you added to the door in this video. In addition to the hinges, a little keyhole plate would look nice under the doorknob. The saucer planting is a beautiful pop of color and I like the wooden post backdrop.
really like the addition of the wreath, and I think once you get hinges on the door, it will definitely be more realistic. I also like the railroad ties! this video gives me ideas.....! I have a couple of spaces that definitely need some imagination! thanks for sharing! xoxo
My first time to visit your channel and what a wonderful experience! I also so appreciate that you don’t dub music over your video it makes it so much more enjoyable to hear your garden as well as see it❤. I can’t wait to see what is next.
Love it. You have great creativity. The wreath around the door was perfect. I lean towards a formal look but what you do with what you have is wonderful. Very nice and inviting to the garden! 👍👍👍
You are so incredibly creative! I love watching your videos to see what discarded item you'll turn into garden art next! For the old fence, maybe add a string/rope to connect them a bit?
Mike this is amazing! You are so creative and inspiring! I love your stories that you tell that help us get a glimpse into your vivid imagination! This really is the most creative garden of all the videos I watch. I’m so sad we weren’t able to come see your garden in real life! We probably won’t be back to Kansas until next spring. Hope it works out next time! Deanna
This is the first video of yours I’ve seen. I will watch more! So many thoughts! Like when did you plant those trees?!? You are an artist and we are just watching it all come together, like “what is he doing there?” And I always wondered what my life goal was. I’m beginning to this it’s dawdling in my garden, like you are! You are a “maximalist”. Such opulent beauty and not overdone. Some lights to enjoy some night time whimsy would be nice to enjoy. I honestly thought you might hang some rustic string lights on the little “fence” you installed. An old style fence would look great too.
I love it! I haven't commented in a while, but, this one was worthy of a big 👍! Would you do me a favor and try making your little fence, in front of the door, a little closer together to make it appear like a walkway, through the fence, used to be there. I think it might set the door off and frame it a bit more and give it a little more deifinitiom but still have that whimsy. It's strictly up to you, just a thought. I love it!!!❤️
First time viewer here, love the textures and your design attitude! Especially enjoyed seeing how you built the area, adding the mixture of materials, wood, metal, I’m a big fan of the rusty items too. Looking forward to seeing more of what you have posted. It’s inspiring my Saturday morning for certain! Thanks!
New subscriber here! Not sure why I resisted viewing your channel; but I AM sure about how glad that I finally gave in. Wow!, what have I been missing all this time? Your creativity is off the charts and you have such a great eye when it comes to scale and placement with just the right amount of restraint. The old picket "fence" is genius...just enough to suggest what once was and is now slowly fading...I really love it. The old railroad ties, varying heights of the open planters, use of the wisteria branch as a centerpiece and perfect amount and variation of foliage plants with a pop of red/green coleus down in front. This whole scene is such a work of art. Please forgive my gushing over your garden creation, but I think it's wonderful. Now I'm going to have to start binge-watching all your other garden videos to find out what I've been missing. Looking forward to many more! 💚😊💚
Just came across your channel. I love your style of gardening. Very much the way my partner and I are in our ranch. I always looking for new ideas. This episode gave me great ideas for the future. I too have a channel mainly focused on orchids, but I do want to start adding all the new improvements in my 1 acre property. The goal is to build a whimsical botanical garden throughout my entire property. It's years in the making but that is all part of the fun, I just subscribed to your channel for more garden ideas. Keep it up! 👍
I remember you planting those big bowls last year....that's when I started following you! Loved how those bowls turned out! I get alot of inspiration from your channel.
I love love your work. It is beautiful ❤ this is how I’ve always dreamed of having my yard but it definitely takes talent and I lack the talent!! Hopefully I can get inspired from your videos !! Thank you for sharing ❤️🥰❤️
I like the railroad fence in the background with the boxwood. Making the bowl planters of different heights works well. Maybe have them off kilter a little to give the idea of unkempt since the owner has gone. The fence needs some cross beams that have fallen. Right now they don't give the illusion of a fence in disrepair but of sticks in the ground. The grapevine wreath as you have it is off. It's too neat. I love your ideas of little pockets of stories as you go along the path. If someone had climbed down after working on the roof and left their ladder, it would be leaning up against the structure. Not the direction you have it. Please don't take offense to any of my comments, you have brilliant ideas and you make them come to life. I may have an idea but I couldn't make it reality. Love watching your videos and the teasers of what you're planning in the corner is intriguing.
Like the grapevine around the door frame. Unlike you my garden budget is very limited, but then again so is the zone 3a climate too. But I have rocks galore and we have made many beds surrounded by large tractor moved rocks with various ground covers now spilling over and between the rocks. Most of my garden space is devoted to growing food since I am dependent on my garden to eat throughout the winter etc. However, I strive to make it beautiful too. Like the railroad ties on vertical too.. looks good. Mi am not fond of the wooden “fence” I think it distracts from the lovely heuchera and the sun motif behind.
Fantastic garden !!!! Excellent video Your more than achieved your goal Looking forward from more from both of you Very organized Really appreciate the reuses you both did!!!
This is the best one yet. I love it. Just think Gardening abilities get better as you age and acquire more knowledge. Your headed to another profession or at least should be.
