Bealtaine Cottage 

Thank you for taking the time to post this Colette and for sharing your hands on experience. So valuable. Hugs to you and Patsy from a wooded valley in the green forests of Wisconsin, USA. Where we honor your knowledge and are grateful for the motivation it brings to us. 💚

Thank you for educating on how to handle "invasive" plants. Have a blessed week ahead.

Lots of info that I’m finding out about. Lovely and colourful meadow/garden. 😊😊

Such joy~ you are our motivation here in southern middle Tennessee, to get out, put in some hard work and sigh that lovely sigh you make when you are looking back on the work you have done~the progress you've made and the beauty that you and Mother Earth have created together!!! Thank you for this absolutely lovely video🥰 Blessings in abundance to you and Patsy xx

I look forward to watching your videos.. thank you for continuing to provide them for us.. you don't know how much positivity and zen this gives my mindset

Little Patsy is so cute! Your work is appreciated by all the woodland creatures! Thank you!

Blessings Colette! Have a wonderful day! ❤

Ah, invasive species! Interesting subject and I appreciate your take on it. I often wonder, as people no longer use plants for medicinal purposes ( or seldom do as it's knowledge lost to us in this modern world), if thst's not how they became a problem in some cases. In our area in Michigan, US we hear alot about japanise knotweed and purple loosestrife. The purple loosestrife has no natural preditors ( bugs) here to kerp it in check so it invades waterways and chokes out native plants that support native critters. The best suggestion to get rid of it is to pruchase garcilla beetles tp eat it until its gone. Unfortunatly, it has beautiful purple blooms. My granddaughter did a project on scout property to clear it from the wetlands on the said property, which did work. Purple loosestrife is every where around here in ditches and wetlands.

dear Colette,thank you for the very intersted informations,-..................I must translate ground elder to german language.....................Giersch.................................Blessings and Greetings to you and for Patsy a big hug from Daggy,Kiel,Germany☘☘☘

Hi Colette, Spring is truly here, our cherry blossom has fully bloomed and smelling very powerfully sweet! It's so pretty! Lovely to see Bealtaine blooming as well! Put some trellis work up on the side of our garage, not quite sure what we're putting on it yet maybe some rambling rose's, I read they grow rose hips in the Autumn which the birds like, don't think they take a lot of looking after. can't wait to see the results! Many blessings to you and little Patsy ❤❤

❤🐕🐾🐸🐢🌱🌿🍀🪺🌱🐝🐞🕸💚💙✌️🫶🤍💜🩵 Thanks Collette for sharing your experience and your wisdom. It is always a blessing to me to be able to look at your woodland garden. I appreciate the information about invasive plants and how you crowd them out with other types of plants. Delightful ❤

Thank you for all that great information, I need to know more about Ground Elder? Beautiful awakening all around, so exciting.

Oh Colette, Bealtaine Grounds are Divine including the "invasive species". You have shown with careful management that you can enjoy these usually very beautiful species eg Fushsia blooms and of course the herbal ones for their medicinal benefits. Winner all round. I know you do a lot of heavy work but you do enjoy the benefits and the amount of other animals and insects that flourish from your work must satisfy and enrich your life. Darling Patsy enjoys for sure. Bet you savoured your coffee after all the work, it always tastes better after outdoors activities. Hope you included a treat too, well earned. Thanks ever so much for sharing and cuddles to Patsy......E x

I’m off to research how I prepare ground elder for medicinal usage. Thanks I need to plant some.

Blessings to you Colette. Beautiful multifaceted gardens!

Im going to transfer my baptisia plant which is overgrown and in need of removal from the front garden space to surround an annoying patch of poison ivy and see what happens!

That rainbow and the light ! It lights up your beautiful patch of Eden ! Blessings Colette 💕🌷🙏

I love weeds! When I used to garden for folks they would often grumble that I had forgotten to pull out the dandelions. “No, I haven’t..they’re lovely and useful,” was my answer. I was almost always forced to pull them out anyway and I just took them home! I tried your method of just planting things near the “invasive character” and it works. The new plant manages the garden thug nicely. The Peiris is magnificent! 🐇🦋

Everything looking so fresh and abundant xxx

I have had to cut down and burn all my box trees because i couldn’t manage the Box caterpillar!

Absolutely amazing informative channel

I have bindweed in my garden and it used to drive me crazy, but over the years as the garden has grown around it, it has slowly lost its strength. My garden is a 'wanna be Collette' copycat one. Thank you for so much inspiration!

I often wonder if our gardens work with a certain symbiosis with ourselves. I have a mature herb garden that I've tended for 18 years or so and in the last few years ground elder has been growing amongst the plants...which kind of coincided with with the onset of my arthritis! You've inspired me to look into using ground elder to help my symptoms, so it stays! In fact most "weeds" like nettles and dandelions I already use. Thanks Colette and litle Pats!

Good Evening from Sweden!.🤗🇸🇪 Loved the video today Colette..... And it's a good and important topic to "discuss" because a Lot of people are so afraid of planting "ivasive" spiecies in thier Gardens. Even here in Sweden, are they " the talk of the town"🙂... But they are only Spiecies,which needs to be "extra taken care of" and can be handled in a good way if one only took the time to learn about it. "Plant them out" is a really good way. Me, I love Ground Elder. It's a beautiful and useful groundcover with it's white flower and it contains, exept all the vitamins and minerals, also a LOT of fiber and proteine. Which is good for people eating only Plant based food. But if you, anyway, want to get rid of it, in your Garden flower beds, I can recommend Geranium 'Patricia', a taller Geranium with an intense pink color or Geranium 'Rozanne' with bluelilac flower color which also is quite tall... And Geranium is as everyone "probably" already know, a very good Woodland plant..🤗🌱👍🏻 Have a great Evening everyone!🤗💖

Very useful information Colette, thank you. I'm sorry you've had to resort to having advertising on your channel ❣️

What a beautiful garden you have

I do much the same and "chop and drop" as well. If they can't photosynthesize, they go away!

❤ this. Thank you so much for sharing your experience. 💚💙🌱

I would be so interested in a book by you on herbs. I know how busy you stay but maybe let it percolate in the back of your mind a bit😅

Love Patsy! Got lashed on at my cottage this morning and then the sun was shining 😂

Thank you Colette!! This was a VERY practical and easy to understand video!! BLESSINGS to you and little Patsy!! 💞

We cook with ground elder. Eat it before it eats us...very healthy and one can make a lot with it. (Use it as any green leaf, spinach or cabbage)

I have ground elder in my garden. It is only growing in the front garden, and it is about 5mx 3m wide. I live here 28 years, and it never grows more and I don't do a lot against it. I use the leaves in spring, eat it, with nettles in soup or something like that.

Beautiful Colette ❤ Thank you for sharing ❤

Thanks for this Colette, I actually feel that some Humans are an invasive species LOL . Mother Nature is our best Head Mistress and You are Her best Teacher sharing Her knowledge ... I so want a Fuscia for my wee Garden (the spelling has wandered from my mind like Ivy ) Blessings to You and Wee Patsy xx

Love your video BB.. have you seen the fox lately...😊

Superbe ! j'adore votre jardin

What a beautiful landscape 😊

It's one thing when water is plentiful. Try this discussion in regions where plant growth is severely limited and non-native species take hold. 😮

Awesome 🇺🇸 beautiful educational video just lovely everything is beautiful and green 💚 ❤🎉🎉

so many gorgeous visions of your plants! so lovely! Thank you!

I just saw red veined chard so pretty self seeds everywhere. Edible slightly bitter in salad.

Beautiful walk & really enjoyed learning with the hands on approach! Question: Being respectful of plants being sentient, is there a "proper" respectful way to go about pruning & pulling up roots, etc? Should a prayer & a request to prune, etc be said beforehand? Any suggestions appreciated!🐕🍀🌺

I have a couple videos as to how I am dealing with the invasion of goutweed (ground elder) It's not a perfect system but it makes it manageable. Like you said it takes work. I just moved into our home last June and when we viewed the property in April, nothing was growing yet. When we actually moved in June I was disappointed to see goutweed and multiflora EVERYWHERE! Ugh. Anyway, I tackle each one bit by bit but I also don't try to eradicate it completely because even if they are invasive, they do have benefits like your pointed out for goutweed. Multiflora is so invasive here and I just try to remove most but not all of it from the property because the bees love the flowers, it provides a great thorny hedge to keep out deer from the property too. No one can pass through a hedge of multiflora! In the process of trying to manage these two invasives, I always have your words from years ago about planting out the invasives...and that's what I'm trying to do. It's better to have diversity, keeps everyone in check! Same goes for humans.

Very interesting Colette. I have invasive ground elder and arthritis - so will put it to good use now -using your friend Terri’s advice on how to prepare it. It’s seem synchronistic that the “weeds” appear in your garden that address your current health needs

Thank you for all the information on invasive species. I have ground elder in my garden, and like you said, it does have a beautiful flower in the Spring. However, I am trying to stop this invasion by planting other plants around it. I did not know that it was a herb that is very beneficial to your body. Therefore, I guess I will let it cohabitate with the other plants. Blessings to you Colette.

Thanks Colette but I’m still not sure about the ground elder?? I suspected it in my garden but didn’t see a close up of it to properly identify it. It would be lovely to see a close up of your ground elder perhaps when it flowers in May. 😂😂❤

Patsy is overseeing your work. I think she approves : )

Even Patsy is in awe of Bealtaine 🥰💚💖🌳🌳🌳

Thankyou for having us..

Lovely video, thanks !

If we were to ask Mother Nature, "Which of your plants do you classify as 'invasive?'" I know what she'd say: "Why none, of course. All my plants live in glorious harmony. Plants are only invasive to you humans!" And she would be right. In my messy little gardens, I let everything grow. And I get very excited when I see something new that she has contributed with no work at all on my part. I just plant anything anywhere. And if it crowds something else out, then that's that plant's problem, not mine. I, too, live in glorious harmony with every single thing that grows! Thanks for another nice stroll through your wonderland.

Hello Colette, I Love watching your channel from South London and have lived in Washington State for a long time. I found out a while ago we can't buy Ivy in this area anymore as it's been labeled Invasive.

I love seeing your beautiful photography of Springtime at Bealtaine Cottage. And I only wish you would have had photos of the “invasive” plants you are talking about! 😄

We have old quarries around us, and the whole area, farmland and village is infested with horsetail. Impossible to get rid of, it's roots have been found down mines! You can plant in it, but it comes up through everything. It's been around since the dinosaurs, so we're stuck with it.

The woodland looks fabulous Colette

The only plant I keep well under control is Ivy.

I love your take on "invasives". I just laugh myself silly though that anyone declared Rhododendrons "invasive". Whoever decided that has never been here to the PNW of America where people plant them everywhere in home gardens where our climate and naturally acidic soils make them thrive. Many are huge, higher than the rooflines and untold decades old but I have never, never even once seen them spread in my yard or any other yards. I have never seen one on vacant land or natural areas while hiking. Never once where a human had not planted it. In Portland have a beautiful Rhododendron garden on a large multi acre site with pathways and lakes and literally thousands of gorgeous mature Rhodies. Have they spread beyond the garden's borders into the adjacent wild areas or golf course? Not a one! Now I can't say the same for Himalayan Blackberries which pop up everywhere on most untended lots or roadsides but even with them, you see humans picking their berries in buckets come July/August and animal eating them (thus the spread) and birds nesting in their brambles. If we humans left our region even they would be mostly shaded out by native Douglas Firs which would retake over 95% of the land here and be controlled in the few riparian areas by the shade from Alders and Ash. Nature would deal with it her way. It's the invasive humans that have created the cleared land habitat where the Blackberries are a problem!

Lovely video Collette. We are in the midst of Autumn in New Zealand and I'm weeding out the finished Hymalayan Balsam lol I love it but boy does it take over, even when you think you've only left a few in. Both me and the bumble bees love it though!🥰

Thank you Colette. Every little space that seeds could land in by every fence here is covered with purple dead nettles. I guess they're invasive. We grow our own stinging nettles now. I watched a video from Britain where they were saying that none of the native insect life interacts with rhododendrons. Have you found that to be true? I nearly got a sunburn yesterday until i realized what was happening. That was April 13th💚 OMG YT put a gun commercial on this one. That's the first I've seen on an overseas.creators' videos.

I like your wisdom on this topic, Colette. Some people do get very heated about invasive species. Personally, I love rhododendrons, and I try to tolerate the ground elder that comes up everywhere! I look forward to your video on herbs in the near future. I grow some, but would like to grow more. Have you started your microgreens yet? I lived on them last summer, but I can't remember when I planted the seeds.

do you find that your invasive plants are more cooperative when they are appreciated?

I’m very grateful for the advice re invasion, but the ground elder took over my strawberry patch and eventually won despite my efforts, so the only remedy was to pot the runners and dig the whole patch over laboriously picking out as much root as possible…needless to say, after several days on my knees and re-locating my little strawberries, the ground elder popped up as strong as if it had been newly pruned Oh dear…any remedies Colette, as I don’t have a huge amount of space!?

hello very beautiful videos please kindly film a sewing video please ok?thank you very much 😊

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Hi Collette,i hope you don't mind me asking,but i have always wondered if all your beautiful pussycats and the gorgoeus Jack are buried on your property? I have been wondering about this alot lately as my best friend a beautiful big ginger boy called Jasper has recently passed and i want to make a nice memorial area for him along with my other friend Bracken another lovely boy who i lost almost a year ago now. Many thanks,and good health.

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Next door neighbours Bamboo! 😠

hahaha glad I am not a Roman

Have to confess I am a human male and a bit of an invasive species. But I can be useful.

So true re invasive plants. We have our fair share in New Zealand. I do habitat piles now such a good idea ,I got from you. ❤❤