I agree Danielle, my Dad had a lovely Asian garden that utilized the space behind his garage and along the side of our house! The neighbors would always ask if they could come through and see it every summer! Peace and blessings! 💖
Danielle, I really appreciate how you find and share these public gardens. I’ve lived in this region my whole adult life and didn’t know about Chanticleer, and now you’ve found another great place. Thank you! 🌸
What a delightful and inspiring tour dear Danielle and such a lovely way to start my day with a cup of coffee 😊 The herbs garden with it beautiful arches, wall water feature is a perfect example of what can be done with a little imagination in a rather narrow walkway. Secret hidden gardens are by far my favourites as they take you on a journey of discovery and enchantment and this gardens all have a theme / personality of their own but flows into each other so very nicely. I can imagine the Chef picking up fresh vegetables from his kitchen garden and the private pool at the end of the video feels like heaven on your incredibly warm days. Thank you so much for this refreshing tour and wishing you a lovely day from London UK 💚
Hi Danielle, lovely way to start my day. Thanks for taking us along with you on this wonderful garden tour. I think a smaller garden is easier to put together. More intimate, but I just love a garden on a grand scale! So I do both. 😍
Thanks Danielle , it’s always nice to go on a garden tour. Small gardens are more difficult. I wanted to tell you about your orange begonias. I treat mine like dahlias. Dig them in the fall. Leave some dirt on them. They sprout some time in March . I pot them up and plant them outside when it warms up. I’ve been doing this with 5 for probably 4 years now. Thanks for being you. Really enjoy listening.
Hi Danielle. Thank you very much for taking your precious time showing us this for ideas. I have one side of our house with long walkway that we don’t know what to do yet until watching this video. 😊🥰❤️🙏🏻
Thank you for sharing that garden. I live in Chicago where a standard city lots is 25’ wide. I think it’s more difficult to design a small narrow garden, because I want it to feel larger and inviting. But still have all the beautiful plants, flowers and hardscape features in the tiny space. But large spaces can be overwhelming and difficult to achieve a intimate feel.😁
@cynthiag3065 We moved two years ago from Northern California with a tiny outdoor "garden" to a house with a proper yard in a village outside Chicago. Our tiny yard in CA was kept simple with roses and a redbud tree and small space for veggies and herbs garden. We love the green 💚 in Illinois, but in my first year at creating garden beds, I completely forgot to include the evergreens! 🌲 Needless to say, I was horrified my first winter in IL when I thought all my plants died! They all eventually came back in the spring. 😊 💚 Happy gardening!
I find English garden you tube channels and British garden shows like Garden Rescue often have content that deal with narrow but long backyards as do many British Victorian terrace homes have exactly that kind of lot.
Lovely. Thank you for the tour. As a gardener with a small amount of space including some narrow garden beds, I beleive that a small garden in much more challenging to create than a large garden. Because the limit of space, layering and including enough variety of texture and color is difficult!!
Small gardens are much easier than large spaces. I had no trouble designing my landscape in the suburbs on .42 of an acre. When I moved to a larger, rural property with 3 acres it was much more difficult to figure out where garden rooms should be created, where they should begin and end all while providing cohesion to the entire landscape. I've been working on what was a blank slate for 3 years and there is much more to decide, design and create. Wish me luck! :)
It is our smallest skinniest beds - near foundation - that I struggle with - because you really have to simplify the palette to make it work, but still find ways to make it interesting throughout the seasons (because of its proximity to the house). The one bed that I think works because it leverages in part perennials that because of their foliage provides contrast in color texture and shape. The reality is in spaces this small, you just are unable to really mass enough to truly wow with flowers alone through the garden season IMHO Key perennials that IMHO transform a space that are super easy to grow - Japanese painted fern, shredded umbrella and the chocolate-leafed leopard plant Britt-Marie Crawford. Others that are still relatively new to me but are loaded with color shape and/or texture and great for groundcover (and for our native pollinators) - Robins plantain Lynnhaven Carpet and the lyreleaf sage Purple Knockout. Still searching those in sunnier spaces but really like for all reasons above Back in Black sedum which emerges a glorious blue and heats up to rich glossy purple
I would have to agree with you that creating small gardens is so much easier. My entire property (under an acre) consists of small gardens with a variety of light conditions; the smaller gardens are easier to manage, maintain and tweak when I decide a plant is not working or I need to divide something.
