Cottage Garden Restoration 

I love visiting your perfectly imperfect gardens. Your bunny bench is adorable. Your videos are like a ray of sunshine on a dreary day. Thanks for everything you do, your ideas and hard work are very appreciated!🌻

So grateful for this video Jeri. It seems like the world has gotten uglier this summer and to see such beauty in your garden and hear your calming voice has been so helpful. Now it is time for some tea 🫖 💜

You are such an inspiration to keep working on things that "work" and moving things that do not. Thank you.

I just love your cottage garden, and the chickens and peacocks that just roam around.

Flowers in a Cottage Garden: Phlox, lavender, Hollyhock, roses, Shasta Daisy, Day lily, larkspur, delphinium and/or bellflower, pansies, Columbine, Geraniums, Pinks, Peonies... All present. Missing anything?? Like people are saying, enjoy your soothing voice and quiet reassurance in this crazy world. Thanks for what you do!

Lost my beloved Driver at the end of March and this lost my desire to garden this year .. have no children so he was like my child. Spent four miserable days in Knoxville before I lost him.. so I said I would have to just enjoy Jeri’s flowers this year. Probably a good thing not to worry too much about it this year … with the lack of rain in our area ☔️! Cloudy and over cast here today .. so maybe we will get some rain! Where was the Lavender festival held ? I have never heard of it !! Hope to get back to Greenville next year to the Iris festival ! I do love Iris !

That saying about eating an elephant comes to mind. lol It's the same in my garden, sometimes spaces get neglected for awhile, but with some elbow grease it's new again. It looks wonderful Jeri and I love the bench. Those are my kind of projects, re-working what I have and thrifting things that need a little TLC before adding to the garden. I have several areas in my garden where I took pebbles that a spring flood left behind to create pathways with. Right now with the summer humidity here in the South I work at it in short spurts. I love mimosa trees, we have a couple along our creek. The veg garden is keeping me busy indoors of late, canning, freezing and dehydrating produce. Always a pleasure to visit with you in your garden. Happy gardening!

I hardly ever comment on social media, but just have to say how amazing I think k you are. Geez building things and working hard on garden Reno. Such an inspiration. 🥰

Tan bello es tu jardín,como el paisaje allá con grama verde y soleado...vives en un paraíso,aspiro a vivir parecido,nunca lo he hecho,pero aquí en la cuidad,con la pandemia he tratado de no necesitar tanta ayuda,como adaptación...a lo que me espera.

34 minutes of pure pleasure and relaxation. Thank you for spending time with us. So enjoy seeing your garden progress. Your voice soothes the edges off a long day. Happy gardening. It shows how much you love doing this, a piece of garden heaven😊❤️❤️❤️

Как тепло от ваших видео. Вы очень теплая женщина и всем дарите добро.!

What a talented woman you are. Love how kind you are to your animals and the care you give everything.

Your gardens have never looked so beautiful !!!!!!!

❤ Hi Jeri, I SO enjoy wandering around your garden with you! I can’t even imagine all the beauty that you experience! ALmighty God is SO incredibly good to you in providing the necessary strength and energies needed to take care of your awesome gardens! ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

Thank you Jeri. Your energy and dedication to the land is immeasurable !!! You continue to show us that with determination and a cup of tea now and then we also can do it!!! Hugs

I always love when you let us know how OUR gardens are doing. It is always a delight!

Beautiful backyard! I weed like you do; bored with something I'm doing, I move on to something else, and then go back and finish! Love the bench you're making!

So beautiful!!! I am 68 and I garden and have many flower beds. I get a lot of inspiration from you, however, you have way more talent than I do! I may try to make a couple of the rabbit cutouts like yours. In a world that has gone crazy it is to nice to visit with you and see your gardens.

Jeri, how wonderful. You’ve done a fabulous job on renewing that garden. Your rabbit seat is especially clever and the reworked trellis. Everything!

Oh Jeri, such hard work but the fruit of your labor is stunning. So in my next life if I came back as a cat or chicken would you let me stay? 💗💚💙💛

I already posted here a few days ago, but Jeri, I just have to come back and tell you again how much I appreciate your videos. It's so brutally hot here and my "gardens," if I can even call them that, are heartbreaking this year. So, when I'm free to visit my favorite visual refreshment--peaceful and informative YT gardening videos--I always find myself coming back here to your channel. I'm sure I'm not the only one. Yours is the most genuinely decent channel IMO, and without the challenging visual (and often verbal) anti-Christian, anti-American, social or environmentalist propaganda. This is a place where I can just enjoy my viewing then walk away not feeling judged and I can still feel proud of being American. I love it here. So comfortable, so refreshing, so inspiring. Thank you again for all you give us of your time and talents. Thank you!! 🐞

Oh my gosh that bunny 🐰 bench is everything it’s sooo perfect 🥰 I enjoy your garden so much and all the whimsy things I see along the way 🐇🌿🌼🌾🌻🌺🌷🐔

You are a seriously talented lady, an inspiration to all of us not to mention the stamina it takes to work in this horrible heat we have been having this summer. Love the bench!

Just Lovely and so Inspiring..."Thank You" again for sharing yourself with us...

The beautiful life of a gardener

Always looking forward to watch your videos! Thank you for inspiring me to continue in my gardening 👩‍🌾👏👏💕💕

Jeri, this was a great video I get the feeling of being there visiting your garden. I really like what you did with the lattice. Especially the open slots at the top. And love your bench. Gives a finished look with a view beyond. I appreciate your hard work. I struggle to keep up with my garden, old body aches and pains. You inspire me to continue.

I was happy to discover this spring, lichen growing on my faux wicker table on our deck. The more lichen and moss,the better!

I love your gardens so much! The rabbits on the bench seat just add something special to it. I must say as well that I really liked how you had your hair in this video...so pretty!

Creative and enjoyable!! 🥰🪴🍀🌼

Lots of creativity and very hard work. Inspirational.

CUTE, someone dropped them off, and how nice for you and for them

OMG, are you soooooooo talented with tools and inspo!!! I wondered where you have been, I was worried 😟. So glad you are okay!

HI Jerri. I love your garden videos. One tip I would like to give you that I use. Instead of buckets for weeds I use one of those hard plastic toddler pools. It stores easy on a wall and holds buckets of weeds and is easy to drag. Take care.

Just an absolutely beautiful transformation! It’s a lot of work but, so worth it to see your beautiful cottage garden creations! 🥰🌸🌺

A lovely new garden! How can 1 person have so much natural talent while I have none? You do inspire me to try to be creative. Tyfs.

Wow, tat's a lot of hard work during the summer heat, but looks good

Oh your cottage garden just looks lovely!!! You’ve done so much work! I need to take the plunge and dig up my irises too and remove way too many violets that have grown in between them. You did such a good job with your bench and trellis, and the brick pathway!!! Always love your videos and look forward to them. It was good to see you on there as well. You’re such a beautiful lady, and loved the way you had your hair. Thanks for all the inspiration! ❤️👩‍🌾🌻

Such an inspiring video! Love it❤️. I’m looking forward to an overhaul and redesign of my cottage bed once the weather cools a bit here in KY👒💐🧤

Always wonderful to see your creations. I do hope you accomplished all before the extreme heat came to stay. Here in south Arkansas, we have drought, no rain for 2 months, try to water but one can not water enough as the humidity sucks it right out. Temperatures are over 100 each day with high heat indexes and only about 90 at night. I have azaleas dying that are many years old as I cannot get water to them. Yet, I do not despair, there will be another season and hope to be able to recreate areas closer to the house that can get water to them. Making notes of ideas I always come away with from your videos. Thanks so much for sharing. Rest a while "). In Joy

I had very much the same garden to deal with. When we bought this house and garden in the South Island of New Zealand, I put my everything into designing this garden and developing it into what it is now. I have recorded progress along the way and shared with my Facebook and instagram followers. Now, I have started a channel here on RU-vid as now I am editing the garden yet again.🤣 It is so nice to see somebody else on here that has started from grass roots. Awesome job! Look forward to seeing more. 🙏

Seating areas are always nice! Especially when creative as yours is!

Thanks for this lovely video! I´m starting a new garden, pretty much from scratch since I just bought a Swedish cottage with a huge garden. Basically a garden without any plants as of now. I decided to document the whole progress on my RU-vid channel 🙂 I need all the inspiration I can get!!

What an absolutely enjoyable watch!! Where to start… I loved many elements!!! Hummingbird moth and that huge butterfly at the beginning was very impressive and I’ve never seen anything like it. I loved how your dog ( can’t remember the name) payed a visit to check on your work and Tydus the cat also kept an eye on the workforce! Your beautiful Hopalong bench is so clever and perfect for the this patch of garden! You’ll be able to have many breaks with cups of tea looking out at the wondering feathered ladies going about their travels!! Have Thanks Jeri for sharing and hope you have a great week!! 🌺🌺🌺🌺

You should sell your patterns from your fences and gates. They are delightful.

Thankyou jeri, everything in your beautiful gardens just such an inspiration, I as always love to see the maidens here and there,,you have worked so hard its so very cottage beautiful,,just whats needed on a tea break to watch and see all the lovely beauty jeri,hearing all the sounds s of the peacock s snd maidens and birds ect ect,,you have such a calm and comforting voice also.xxthankyou until next time,,will share this with my dear friend she live over 3 hours away from me, she just lives to see flowers 💐. God bless you 🙏. Xxbe safe all you maidens, xxhesther from South west, 🇬🇧

Hi Jeri, thank you so much for this video. What a lovely garden and how inspiring to see the transformation. I appreciate you taking us along on each stage, showing that a complete transformation is doable and that it's okay to take our time with it. Hope you are having a wonderful week! Angela

Beautiful and inspiring! Thank you!

Love the idea of the cutouts (rabbits) of the fencing.

Wow, you are quite an artist and gardener. Awesome restoration! Thank you for sharing your beautiful garden!

What a beautiful lesson in patience and the worth of hard work.

This was fun! We recently went on a week’s vacation and boy did I have a lot of work to do in the garden when we got back! I’m finally caught up. You continue to inspire me to try new things. I recently installed hoops over a couple raised vegetable beds. Right now I have them covered with shade cloth so I could grow more cool season vegetables. In the fall and spring I will cover them with plastic and extend the growing season. I hope to become a year round gardener here in zone 6. Thanks again for the inspiration!

This was such a lovely video Jeri. What a way to start it with Titus grooming himself, the beautiful hummingbird moth and such a gorgeous dark butterfly on your phlox 😍 lovely. How many acres do you have there. You are so multi-talented and it just thrills me to see all the wonderful things you have done in the garden and home. I also ventured to your website to see your artwork. Unfortunately I can be rather clumsy as I have Myers -Irlen Syndrome. I possibly am also autistic so whilst I am very capable in the kitchen and garden I've been known to injure myself and therefore I don't trust myself anymore with such things as circular saws or jigsaws and heavy DIY but I love baking and I love to draw. This year I have also by God's grace changed things around in the front garden. I'm delighted to see so many buds on my climbing rose, my Pacific Giant Delphinium is looking taller and more floriferous this year, I also have a beautiful crimson peony, crimson antirrhinums, foxgloves, golden bearded irises, dark purple Dutch irises and so many other exciting flowers still to come. The lavenders are just coming into bud and my hollyhock seeds have germinated as well as my zinnias and some of my cosmos. The back garden is also looking very full. It is partly 3 years old and partly well established. I thank God for His wonderful blessings. I feel so full which is wonderful because in other areas of our lives it has been such a trial but I thank Him for His wonderful mercies. I so look forward to your next video having just watched your latest one. Every blessing. 🥰🌹🌷🌺🌸🪻🌦️⛅☀️🐈‍⬛🦮🫏🐦🐦‍⬛🐥🐓🪿🦆🦤🦢🐾🐝🐞🦋🐛

Miss Jeri, I had the same thing happen with some cone flowers here in North Georgia. I think they were burgundy originally but came up green with clusters of little green flowers. We sold that house a year ago and I’m starting over with three small flower beds at our new place. I appreciate it took you weeks to get your project done but you persevered. I’m learning patience since I can’t do what I used to.

OMGoodness I get to see you cut the bunnies on the fence. I am super excited to see this wonderful video. I have learned so much from you this year. 🥰

Beautiful and inspiring transformation....there's hope for me!

I Lo e watching your videos, it is so relaxing, your garden is so happy, and so are you, you are my inspiration. Thank you

Calming, soothing and definitely motivating for us gardeners to get outside and look at the wonders of our own garden rooms. Beautiful!!

My goodness.......this video reminds me whe. I was a child, thanks !

Thank you. I loved to see your garden grow.

Love, love, love it. Nice to see you on camera as well Miss Jeri.

Beautiful transformation ❤. Thank you for always inspiring me! 🤗

A lot of hard work and it turned out beautiful! 🙏💕

I really love the bench 😍

Your garden is coming along beautifully and comes by your very hard work. Cottage gardens I think are not perfect that’s what makes them beautiful. I love your floral garden. Thank you for sharing 😊

Thank you Jeri -- you made another stress reducer video.

Love the bench with the bunny outline!

I adore the Bunny Bench.

So lovely Jeri. I love the seating bench. You're such an awesome inspiration. Love your videos 😻❤️😻.

Hello Jeri, the bee on the flower isn‘t a bee, it’s a little butterfly, in German it’s called „Taubenschwänzchen“- little Dovetail. It is as quick as a hummingbird. You do a lot of work in your garden. If you tear out the bishop‘s weed, in German „Giersch“, take out all the little roots, don’t put it on the compost, because they thrive out again and you never get rid of. You could also put a piece of thick cartoon over and it cannot grow through again. Saw this at Charles Dowding- no dig garden. Best regards from Austria, Moosdorfer Beegarden, 🐝🦋🌼and good luck with your beautiful romantic garden🕊🌸🐝💕

Hi Jeri! Good to see you out and about in the garden. Those hummingbird moths are very interesting and I’ve seen them a few times at my mothers house over the years but never in Florida. When I saw the rabbit structure you put together, I am reminded of the Hobbiton village in the Lord of the Rings. It was lush and full of beautiful things just like yours. So now you not only qualify for video production, but set design/ decorator as well . 😉 The garden and flowers are beautiful! Your hard work has Gods hands in it! The blue berries are at peak now so I cleaned and froze a huge batch today to take out in the winter to make a tart or possibly a pie. Blessings to you both < Brian Here is the information I found on the moth’s: (Just like the hummingbird, the hummingbird moth's buzzing and humming sound is created by its rapid wing movement. Loathed by gardeners, the tomato or tobacco hornworm caterpillar that you see munching on your tomato plants will eventually morph into a Hawk moth, or Sphinx moth, each a type of hummingbird moth..

Just bought land in TN and starting my entire landscape and gardens from scratch - your videos are so helpful. Thank you!

Love your bench 👏😊❤‼

Thank you Jeri .I love you the garden and you videos. 💖

I loved the wonderfull transformation of your garden. Such a lovely walk with the chickens. I too moved back home an enjoy digging up over a hundred year old brick and flagstone for my garden pathways. I will continue to follow you.

Wow, you did a lot of work 😳💪👍. It looks so beautiful, and I love the bench that you made. Enjoy your wonderful garden. 🙏❤️🦋

Fabulous video. Thank you.💗🌸

Love your gardens and what talent to reuse materials!

You give me so much inspiration! Particularly the flower support board. If you could make a video of the ways you make the supports. Love your gardens.

Hi Jeri, Jan Cole here from southeast Pennsylvania, also an avid gardener and landscape designer. One thing I found helpful for controlling weeds between my perennials is to plant very low growing groundcovers of various colors, textures and bloom times. Perhaps that would save you a lot of weed pulling and aggravation! It also saves having to mulch! By the way, I love what you're doing, especially the bunny fence and garden seat! 🐇🐰🥰

So delightful! ❤️

I just love your shady area where you want the greenhouse to be. What love you have given your gardens. I just have a built in planter and almost collapsed with the heat yesterday pulling weeds and taking out dead leaves. Basic cleaning. 🤣. I wanted hollyhocks this year but couldn’t find any. I also looked for English ivy and nobody really had anything. Hopefully next year the garden centers will have flowers in stock. ~Janet 😘

What a wonderful gift of old bricks, they are beautiful & I love moss as well. You surly have been working hard & your gardens are mesmerizing proof of your artistic ability. I just love your videos!

Very beautiful garden! And love the rabbit design bench. New found chickens!👏💗

I have really enjoyed your video of you garden! I am recovering from back surgery, so it gives me hope that the garden can be salvaged. I go and sit on the ground at times and weed for a few minutes early in the mornings. I like that you have a lot of shade and repurpose things and use what you have. I have hope in the future of my shadier spots. Definitely like bluebells also and the animals.

Well done you!

You are such a gift to us viewers as you show us how to bring back to life some of our neglected areas in our gardens!

You amaze with your inspiration & hard work! Simply stunning!!

Ms. Jeri, today would have been my grandmother's 108th birthday. Your garden in eastern TN reminds me of the garden we used to have in our Kentucky garden. Today, I must take the bitter with the sweet as I miss my soul mate grandmother was passed 18 years ago. I gotta try to be happy the rest of the days I have here, but nothing replaces the life I had with my grandparents on the farm just outside the little town of La Grange. Thank you for your video that allowed me to close my eyes and go back in time for a bit to the place where I was once happy.

From the minute this video started, until it finished, I was smiling. It's just perfect. That bench you made, just everything, perfect. Thank you so much for sharing your life with us.

I enjoy watching this video ,I love you garden the bench is gorgeous , thank you to sharing you beautiful garden and you hard work you poor into too is make look sou beautiful😂

So lovely! Thank you so much for taking us along

Hi Jeri, I have a huge goutweed (bishop’s weed) problem. Many years ago I met Roger Swain (Victory Garden) and asked how to get rid of goutweed. “Move,” he replied. I laughed at the time, but he was right. I battle it every summer. And pulling it out just encourages it more. Stay on it, or it will come back time and time again. 😊

Bravo jeri for your rabbits bench seat , fresh and original, sometimes i like just silhouettes like this, it reminds me some of my old country American cross-stitch that i made. And your video refreshes me because here in France, in Bordeaux, where i am living now, we have had 42 degrees yesterday!!!……really hard ……plus lots of forest fire around 🥲

🦋🍃🌺🍃🐝👏🏻Love your garden. All the work you put into it has paid off. Gardening to me is planting seeds, doing cuttings and divisions and getting pleasure from watching them grow. Some things I buy such as roses and trees. When you showed the larger view of the garden it then showed the true beauty and how it has developed over time. I adore the cut outs on the fences etc and the new seat. I am going to do some of the frames (small obelisks) done out of the sticks and vine cuttings. They will be very handy to have for my pots and even in the garden for plant support. I do get bonus trees but they usually have to be pulled out as a weed but occasionally I do pot one up into a small pot as a (free) bonsai 😊

Love your videos

Gorgeous gardens! I LOVE the bunny bench, and all the new touches and changes you put in. Perfect choice for the trellis height! I have walkways I need to redo. They are on a slope and have washed out with a storm we had. Do you have a chicken coop? I can't remember a video on the chickens and where and how they live. I'm sure they are living their best life with you! If I were a critter, I'd choose Hop-a-Long Hollow for my home as well.

Beautiful. Looks like an enchanted cottage and garden.

Love everything about your home, garden, teas, cooking...just you!! You are wonderful!!

My favorite.