Amazing Woodland Garden Tour 

I live on 87 wooded acres, and i have abundant wildlife coming and going through the property. My garden (vegetables, herbs flowers orchard etc) is spread out over approx 3 acres or more. I do not have a deer fence, nor liquid fence, nothing!! No deer/wildlife deterrent of any kind. And none of the wildlife touch my garden at all! They walk through it but do not nibble on anything. The only thing i have around the perimeter of my huge gardens(i have 5 different gardens), is i seeded clover along with a perennial cover crop. The deer and rabbits, moose, elk prefer to eat the grass cover crop and dont touch my gardens. In the fall when i harvest my garden veggies, whatever produce that is not worth keeping, i leave it on the soil surface for wildlife to eat. The deer love my carrots, corn or squash that got hit with frost. The bears eat the bruised potatoes that i dont keep. And so forth. We seem to have built a unique relationship that seems to work over the years. :)

Ahhh the video posted up just in time for my coffee. 😊

I too hope you will tour here again !!! To the host, Thank you for sharing !!! More, more, more !!!

Please show this garden in spring when those azaleas bloom. That would be lovely.

So glad that you’re talking to gardeners about their process. More more more please!

OMG, what a gorgeous garden. Thanks for showing it. Please go back in the spring or any time :)

I planted some of that striptease hosta and the deer loved it! 😊

They have a beautiful garden, that’s relaxing and not over stated with unnecessary plantings!

This was such a lovely tour that I have revisited it at least 5 times and each time I see another plant I want too. I bought my wooded lot the same way-a recommendation of a friend. Six acres of oaks, hickory and a big vernal pond . Gardening always gives something to look forward to😊. Today I saw that big leafed magnolia . We have Sayen Gardens, a Hamilton township park,that is known for those trees!

Thanks to Jay and Kim for sharing their beautiful woodland space! Thanks to Jim and Stephany for bringing this lovely garden to us! I've never seen that native magnolia before, and it is so unusual. Good to know how they handle the deer in their area.

Thank so much to the home owner for sharing their beautiful and amazing garden. Love ❤️ and Pearson of outdoor, with nature and plants 🪴 create amazing garden. Thank you for sharing your HAERT

Now that was spectacular...one of your best Jim so far....so much to admire and all their own work.....good on them!

Love ❤️ love ❤️ love. Thank Jim putnam and Stephany, have a fun 😀 and wonderful fall season. 😀

Saturday morning coffee with Jim Putnam. 👍 I wish I had more mature trees in my landscape. Patience is a virtue I guess. I love the look of this landscape. Thanks for finding these gems!

Hi Jim. This was a delightful garden tour. Would love to see Jay York’s garden again during this time of year.

LOVE LOVE LOVE touring beautiful gardens!!! 😍

Amazing garden with lots of plants I've never seen or heard of.

FINALLY! I small hint at what may be eating at my carex. Weirdest thing last winter finding them gnawed down. Interesting theory and beautiful garden.

My kind of dream garden (minus the deer)! Thanks to the wonderful hosts for sharing such a beautiful slice of heaven. 💚

Love these laid-back tours, so full of info!

So many great ideas for the woodland corners of my own yard! The color for this time of year really is amazing.

Jim, Sooooo many ideas that will work in my 7A VA shade garden! Thank you, Jim & Stephany, for bringing us the delightful tour & thank you to your host! ❤❤❤

Great video and presentation, loved the garden tour.

My dream garden, lots of trees . Thanks for sharing

Wow! Thank you for sharing this beautiful (breathtaking) garden. I garden in high desert, Rio Grande Valley, south-central New Mexico - I'm trying to get one corner of my yard to look like this, lol

WOW. What a fabulous garden. Can't wait to see the rest. Thanks for sharing.

This is such a beautiful, restful garden. It shows true spirit to develop something so enchanting. 💕

Great garden tour! Would love to see it in spring and summer!

Thanks for so many great ideas for my own backyard forest!

Lovely landscape. It’s quite similar to my smaller woodland garden. I have come to appreciate the mature trees that offer me part shade conditions through tours of shade gardens. As a new gardener, I planted without really understanding my part shade garden. As a result, I’m growing full sun plants in part shade. I didn’t know what they were supposed to look like, so I’ve been enjoying them, even if they are more leggy or bloom less. Sometimes ignorance allows for breaking the rules.

Amazing Garden! 😍

My discovery this year came completely by accident. I couldn't afford all the plants for the large bed I'm developing around 2 Oaks. I've been surprised how well the Calico Asters (Symphyotrichum lateriflorum) flower quite well right with Hosta. Cut by half in summer, they offer a soft lateral bicolor looking bloom & they're the bee's favorite Aster. Definitely needs space & control but sure beats dead space while I'm filling the bed up. Deer haven't touched them either. Beautiful spaces, thanks for sharing with us! Edit: they don't bloom with the Hosta, much later but tolerate the same conditions & provide interest while the Hosta are going to sleep.

I would love to see a full sun garden, it seems like every garden tour has a lot of shade 😅

Thank you for a wonderful tour...This is a 😍stunningly beautiful landscape!!

Just beautiful! I love the combination of perennial varieties.

Wow, my favorite garden tour yet!!

What a great video and stunning gardens! Thanks to you all!

Beautiful spaces loved all the big plants and the effect of so many calladiums

Love this woodland garden Jim. I too would love to see it in the Spring. Enjoyed this. TY sir.😊👍

Fantastic garden! Thanks to Jay and Kim for sharing it!

Beautiful ❤

Wow! Great video! Having moved to central VA & having many trees and shade, this beauty & indo really, really helped me as we are revamping & starting from scratch. Thank you so much!

That was a terrific garden tour. Thank you.

From cattle farms, you can all across your driveway, where you would have put a gate, dig a channel wide as your drvwy & long enough the deer can't jump it, then place solid round steel bars that allows vehicles to drive upon your driveway, but deer can not walk up your driveway ;)

I would love to hear his wife talk about her caladiums. Those are a favorite of mine too. I also did mine every year. I store them in brown paper bags in a box in the garage. For some reason mine started fading our early this year. Great video.

Jim - how do you plant heavily but don't choke out plants? I want my garden to look more like yours but I tend to plant things too far apart. Based mostly on how the tags say to plant. If I'm planting a 4" pot but the plant is going to get a lot larger I'm just not sure what to do to get the look I want.

Caladium my absolutely favourite plant . 👍❤️😊

I just loved this tour!! Great job!

Where are the slugs? His Hosta look amazing! Thanks for this video tour, inspiring!

Beautiful!

Gorgeous setting!!!

What a magical garden !!! Thank you for showing us it’s beauty.

This is a glorious garden - such a variety of plants, colors and textures! I hope you will return there in the spring.

Beautiful gardens🌿

Beautiful garden

Beautiful garden tour 🥰

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thank you

Amazing

You have an awesome garden!

Thanks. Greetings from Franklinton, NC.

Deer repellent is amazing. I haven’t really tried it on deer but it works on goats. I love my goats but they eat way more things that deer do. Good thing is that they browse like deer too so they don’t kill anything. They just wreck the aesthetics. I do love hearing about what deer don’t eat because I can then test it on goats. My goats eat things seasonally to. Mid August to first rains in November I use some deer repellent. Need to use it about once a week. It gets washed off with overhead watering.

Hi Jim, nice tour! What a full mature garden! I have been watching your large and medium sized evergreen shrub videos. You have convinced me to plant a mixed border hedge instead of single variety hedge. My hedge will need about 20 plants that are about 8-15' tall. I'm in zone 6A in Massachusetts. Most of the hedge will be in full sun, but part of the hedge will be in part shade. It is very difficult to find good examples of mixed border hedges. I'm afraid the hedge will look like a non-cohesive mess. Do you have any videos that show a mature mixed border hedge or even a freshly planted mixed border hedge and how to choose the plants and place them? I have narrowed my hedge down to a selection of plants, but am really struggling with the placement of the plants. I would like to include about 2/3 evergreens for year-round privacy and 1/3 deciduous shrubs with lots of berries for the wildlife. The evergreens I plan to use include fat albert spruces, various hollies and cherry laurels. I have deer pressure. The shrubs I plan to use include burgundy colored black lace elderberries, smokebushes and some other shrubs including service berries, beautyberries. I also plan to include some yellow/gold colored plants like Golden oakland hollies and witchhazel. Do I place the spruces next to each other as a grouping or do I alternate them with the different colored shrubs (smokebush, witchhazel)? Or do place the plants by size and shape? Help! Thank you for your informative videos!

Interesting about the carex. Newly planted they munch my Everest everillo etc to nubs yet I see mature mounds around my hood untouched. I actually had some 4” pots in spring sitting on the ground where I was going to plant them a rabbit knocked it over and munched. Deer leave it be. Next time I’ll spray heavily.

Just unbelievable garden!! Can you address on your Q&A ON WHERE ONE CAN OBTAIN SOME OF THESE SHADE PERINEALS LIKE YELLOW SALVIA IM IN ZONE 8b/9

Lantana 😱 you can’t buy it anywhere in Australia with good reason, it’s highly invasive 😀

Wowow

What’s the tropical green and fuchsia lungwort looking one called?! ❤❤❤

Grogeous garden

Yeah this is Jane from Pennsylvania I have 30 gardens at memorial Park in New Kensington PA and I use egg yolk and water I try to tell everybody about it you only have to do it one time when you first found it first starts coming up it goes into the plant some house I used three egg yolks in a bottle big bottle with water and shake it and then spray it and that's all you have to do it works try it okay bye

Do you know a good source for Caladium bulbs?

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Great video…what was between the carex and solemn seal?

Beautiful property. How much land doe# he have? Love these tours

Gorgeous! He mentioned the Japanese maple has a lot of fans on the internet; do they have an Instagram you could share?

California

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drinking game: "right"

At this point I will take the deer over the armadillo.