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This garden was an unexpected surprise! I visited Findhorn and happened to be walking past, and a local member who walking me around suddenly said something about Cornelia having a nice garden! We spoke to Cornelia, and when I turned the corner and saw her garden I knew it had to be featured! Thank you so much to Cornelia for allowing me to film with no notice, and being a fan of this channel beforehand! I only had 2 hours left before I had to make a trip down to the Lake District that same afternoon so it was all systems go! I really hope you are as inspired as I am with this garden, and thanks to my colleague Charlie for a fantastic job with the editing!😀

Beautiful, I have suffered extensively with depression through my 20s and early 30s and with help I have come to realise recently that its not depression at all, I am just extremely unhappy with many parts of society and i have been so disconnected from a more natural way of life that it was making me ill. What Cornelia has achieved is what I am aspiring to do, I'm a long way off but I will get there or die trying.

My three year old never ate cucumbers, i offered them almost daily and she always refused...until i started growing them. She got such joy from picking them off the vine and eating them in the garden! So now if I am not growing cucumbers, i will go and hide store bought cucumbers in the veggie patch and she usually finds them and gets super excited and eats them on the spot!

I’ve almost given up gardening because of physical problems……it’s been devastating after a lifetime of gardening being my life’s true love…..this video has inspired me to keep trying and given me ideas about how to accommodate my physical limitations! I can’t thank you enough Huw…..❤️💫❤️

As a Complex PTSD sufferer, I have found that your videos are just as therapeutic as the actual gardening. Inspiration is a great tool for those who suffer from depression and PTSD. Thank you.

"Truly a luxury...", can't agree more. The garden is beautiful 🌻 Thanks for showing us her garden, and thanks to Cornelia for sharing her ways 🐞It feels comforting and reassuring that there are ways to adjust a bit and be able to still garden, even when the body is not quite cooperating any longer.

What a beautiful attitude she has! When a health concern made it difficult to garden, instead of giving up she developed a better way to garden. And, she supplements the beds with good quality compost, that "allows me to feed the ground as it feeds me."

Beautiful! I love that she’s found a way to accommodate gardening with her physical struggles. Very inspirational!

Huw, another beautiful garden that you can tell has been put together over the years. I have noticed that each person you have highlighted in the videos have such a peace about them and it obviously comes from gardening. So many people think the 'work' of gardening is just too much and it's difficult to explain the joy and peace that it can bring to your daily schedule. I appreciated seeing the raised beds and I am at a point where I need to think about that addition to our gardens after having four back surgeries and dealing with Axial Spondyloarthritis. There is always something to learn from your videos, Huw! Happy for you and proud of you for all that you are able to accomplish. Keep following your heart in all you do!

"Eat what needs to be eaten from the garden" ❤

How nice to see a person dressed in light colours. 😍 That's certainly not a coincidence that you've met. We had to see this film for an ultimate inspiration for the new season. Another beautiful garden in not perfect climate! Anyone who still is not sure when to start - START NOW! Let's change this world - one garden at a time. 🤗 Thank you all!

I love when you film other gardens. Makes me feel like it’s attainable for me

Hey Huw, I really liked this video also. This is the story of the person that meets the wall as an obstacle. Now breeching an obstacle and then doing the work of gardening can be a big task. If someone is overwhelmed they may just give in. Yet this story is about someone using objects of discard to create a new garden bed and overcoming some engineering design success was born. I am 100% disabled and my entire garden is modified to my ability to manage it. So I really like how this garden is modified and yet still beautiful. take care bye for now

Findhorn is a very blessed and special place, with great spiritual history, but we can all do it in our gardens. Permaculture is the key.

Both of my kids were the same as her son. Would not eat veggies unless they could pick from my garden. Children love that connection to nature.

Just finished working on my veggie plots, opened a beer, logged on, then I am welcomed with this great video, resonates so much with me. I have a book on Findhorn, what an amazing and surreal account. Thanks Cornelia and Huw.

Huw, your channel has hands down the loveliest, most visually pleasing style of any gardening channel I watch. It's mainly the shooting, although the editing is always on point as well, but really, huge congrats for doing that unsung work. Thank you for making my day prettier.

A hip height garden. That’s so brilliant!

What a lovely gardener! I am much like her, 57 years old, I have primarily an edible garden with flowers designed to best benefit my garden as either attractors of beneficial insects or as deterrent for the not beneficial ones. I have turned a small suburban yard into a garden which has brought me so much joy growing organic herbs, fruits and veggies. I have now three raised 30 inch high beds that are eight by four feet in length. I also have other beds but I am considering turning them also into raised beds. I have the great good fortune to have shelves filled with the fruits of my labour from canned veggies, jams and sauces, as well as dried crops as well. My stand up freezer is full and over half is my own produce or food stuffs I have foraged. I am in the process of building my own greenhouse with a small shed attached to the northern side to store my gardening tools. Thank you so much for this video, just listening to this wonderful impassioned gardener has re-inspired me to get out my saved seeds and start working on my garden plan for this upcoming season. I really appreciate the re-inspiration to focus on something that has brought me so much joy. It was a really rough 2021 and I am so lucky to be here now. Thanks!

Hermoso, gracias por compartir, tus experiencias,

"... that's true luxury ..." What a beautiful garden.

I can't tell you how much I love these videos. You guys do such a wonderful job letting the gardeners talk for themselves, and editing yourself out. It's really like being there. And I can't agree more that harvesting your own food is truly a luxury. The first time I harvested my own garden produce I was HOOKED. I just feel so lucky to have food growing right outside my door; no grocery stores, no plastic bags, no limp kale and slimy salad greens, just me and my bowl full of dinner.

That was beautiful. She is lovely and her garden is what a garden aspires to be. Loved.

Perfekte LEBEN!!!Ich lebe Gott danke dafür auch genau so mit riesige Reichtum und Dankbarkeit

It's glorious to eat what you raise in the garden.

Lovely to see a scottish garden! I’m in Aberdeenshire, so sometimes I feel like we are on a different planet to warmer climates.....thanks Huw, & thank you Cornelia ....looks beautiful

I absolutely love how she talks about her garden❤

she looks like an angel in garden of eden. wonderful garden, wonderful person!

So beautiful...I think what you eat also plays a large role in your emotional and mental health, at the same time spending time in a garden is a good grounding or mindfulness activity

Thank you. It's wonderful and very satisfying to hear your very own golden observations from your Garden..to wit, its " true wealth....richness...joy....to eat from it, direct link to food & appetite " etc. Indeed.

I wish there was 1 movie with really a SMALL garden. All the small garden movies have BIG gardens :-(

Having lived in north-east Scotland and experienced the climatic challenge, I can really appreciate what Cornelia has achieved. What a joy!

If that’s a Scottish accent it’s the first one I haven’t needed subtitles for. Rather fabulous work. High marks.

So very lovely & contented. A true inspiration for our Czech farmhouse garden. I’ll be coming back to this. 💗

She so belongs in the garden! Enjoyed it immensely. Love seeing and hearing about others experiences, especially with years of experience; what did or did not work for them. Love that you visualized an opportunity for a wonderful impromptu video! Thank you.

What a beautiful video and such a lovely lady. One commentator has mentioned how peaceful and relaxed all your guest gardeners are and it is true. Gardening is just so good for our mental health. I have just returned from working on my allotment where I am beginning to develop no dig beds. It was a sunny morning and I sat with my coffee and reflected on my progress and felt my spirits lift. Many thanks to you and your team.

Yes this is true luxury for me ❤️ everything looks amazing because of the love you feel and give ❤️

Very inspiring. What a wonderful garden. I'm glad you had the time to film and share with us.

Thank you very much, Huw. Really a very nice surprise to find Cornelia and her beautiful garden. It seems she could talk about her gardening for hours like us because it is a passion. We are nature in nature. See you.

Lovely and so nice to see another gardener with a disability figuring out how to make their passion accessible :D

Really inspiring 👍 We have the same problem with sand and we have to build up soil constantly. So it's good to see what she has achieved. It's so lush. Amazing that she can eat 52 weeks per year from her garden 👏 We're working on it 😉

Positively charming! 💚 How fortunate for us all that the timing worked out for Cornelia share her lovely garden - gardeners are such wonderful people!

Thanks Cornelia for sharing her garden with Huw Richard's subscribers/viewers and she has done a fantastic job and it's a beautiful garden.

She looks like a joyous butterfly in a garden! I wish I live that way someday...

Absolutely it is the true worth. Richness.

A cute beautiful white angel 😇 in a garden paradise

Thank you for this wonderful video! And to Cornelia for being willing to share with no notice!😊 It makes me think I might want to make higher raised beds. I so agree with what a luxury it is to eat what you grow from the garden!✨💕

I can really understand the raised beds at hip high. I just don't bend well at 68, but still love to be in my garden. Loved this video, please share more! Thanks for letting us into your garden.

The aim of every passionate vegetable gardener is to be able to get all vegetables for 52 weeks out of its garden and none from supermarket. It means eating more what is in season, it means eating a wider variety of vegetables. You start to long for the taste of the season way before it happens.

Creeping Jenny forms a lush ground cover and it roots along its stem. The yellow green color would look beautiful on the left side of the path, almost like a lawn. It can remain in place as a living mulch if Laura chooses to plant something in addition creeping Jenny later.

WOW…. what a fantastic lady with an amazing garden. Thank you.😊

what a beautiful garden, what a beautiful woman! thank you both, Huw and Cornelia. oh, and Charlie too :-)

Lovely...also as you mentioned your son not liking veg ~ they often don't like cooked veg, but Children love eating raw vegetables & freshly picked even better 🍀

You are really very very lucky madam,I will pray God to give this type of stressfree life

Its always great to see other gardens and how lovely that you share the creative gardens on your channel. Im looking forward to witnessing our farm transform into lush gardens. Thank you for sharing ★ 🌍 ★

Good way to choose😂what to eat. Whatever is ready👏

Our choice of words reflects our attitude. Thanks to Cornelia I will now tell myself it's time to play in the garden, have fun and be joyful.

What an absolute joy to behold! Well done that lady. Thanks for sharing.🌻🌞🥳

Definitely a tranquil space. I blew a disc and have another threatening to go, so I have been really trying to redo my gardening space to avoid hurting myself any worse. Dabbling in raised beds and vertical gardening for this year.

Can't wait for things to look like that in Scotland again.

Nice, tidy and adundant garden. Nice to see more and more people being able to have and use undercover growing space year round too. I would be lost without my tunnels now...Steve...😃

This IS a very wonderful little vignette into this wonderful gal's garden!!! Wonderful to listen to and fabulously green in the North of Scotland on the North Sea no less!! but she is describing her raised beds- and I cannot fathom what she means by make a pillar. Can you do a video on her raised beds and how she made them? Much appreciated. Thanks.

What a beautiful garden! This is definitely the dream.

So glad you were able to share that. So kind of her to permit you into her garden

Wow she is a true gem!

What a wonderful woman and garden! I thoroughly enjoyed this interview. I’ve been to the Scottish Highlands, and I’m super impressed that Cornelia is getting these kinds of results even further north. Thank you for this, Huw.

What a delightful lady!

Lovely lady. Thank you for sharing with us.

Wonderful garden and wonderful attitude!

Wonderful film, Huw. What a treasure she is and her use of palletts for raised beds was inspirational. Well done, sir.

Wow Cornelia you just described especially how I felt about planing my own vegetables and other plant❤

Ahhh. People who spend a lot of time in the garden have such a serenity about them. Goals❤️

As a gardener on sandy soil, this was an inspiration for sure! Thank you for sharing this delight 😊

Oh I so agree! It brings my heart fullness!!

Inspired by this garden, and what a lovely woman 💚

yes, this is true wealth! what a beautiful lady and garden x

now that's a great permaculture project

A joyful luxury - what a wonderful description of the garden-to-table experience!

Very inspiring to see someone with back problems find a way to continue gardening! Love this.

What a nice setup. The biggest upside of the covid era for me has been getting back in touch with my garden, and realizing how much more fulfilling it is than "work." It's really changed my attitude about self-judgement and changed my life plan toward trying to achieve more and more freedom to spend gardening, propagating plants, growing mushrooms, etc. The older you get the more you realize this is the best life has to offer.

Wonderful visit with lovely Cornelia, Huw. Thank you!

I love her outlook on life so much. Very inspiring. Thank you for sharing x

Food for the soul

Nice and Beautiful Garden, God give you long life God bless you

So lovely!! Thank you for sharing Cornelia and her wonderful garden! My biologist and artist mother- in law got the Findhorn Garden book in the 70s, and we began gardening with nature! They were already using mounded beds, and reading with the seasons.

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My and my husband are quite young, but we designed a garden and started building it by ourselves, I was like: "I want the vegetable garden beds at hip height". So we did. And I'm so glad!! I'm not to lazy to bend, it's just a 'work smarter not harder' thing. We got free bricks and made them with that. It's also very nice to sit on the edge and enjoy the garden. Especially when they get warmed up in the sun! This video is amazing. Man, I can't wait till spring and summer

What an amazing garden and Cornelia has such a great bond of natural power to her garden, you can even feel it when she is talking about her little green paradise. Thanks for showing!

You said it…true wealth!

I love this and connect with her in so many ways!! I also have extremely sandy soil and joint and back issues, but my garden feeds me on many levels, so I adapt. Thank you for sharing this lovely lady.

What a beautiful lady sitting in a beautiful garden. Thank you for showing this garden in the video.

What a wonderful garden! Ethos and journey. Thanks for sharing

What a very beautiful garden! Its so inspiring she even get to have a beautiful garden and find a better way to deal with her back. 🤗 Love her way of gardening! 🤗

What a lovely conversation! Thanks Huw and Cornelia for sharing your knowledge with us. I felt so much at peace for some reason after listening to Cornelia. Thanks for also explaining how you fill the tall raised beds - I need to do this for my mum. Very grateful to you, Huw for featuring such amazing inspirational gardeners, yourself included. Lastly I loved the idea of using pots on pillars and then hanging the netting on them for the raised bed - why didn’t I think of it before!!!

Wonderful ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Beautiful garden full of joys

Not only is it wealth, it's freedom. Beautiful garden, great job!

I loooove this series

Lovely - we can all try to garden and succeed. Nothing like fresh home grown veggies.

Such a happy lady! I'm currently adding a bit more each year to my garden as well. Love learning from people who have been happily doing this for a long time!