Lifelong home gardener as well as small business selling produce, flowers, herbs, gourds and many value added growables and I just want to say your gardens are beautiful, thanks for sharing them with us.
My goodness, what a magnificent garden, what a paradise! I can just imagine the bliss of watching all that beauty emerging from spring onwards after a snowy winter. Diane truly has a gift and her heartfelt passion certainly shines through. Thank you so much, Olga and Diane, for your generosity in showing us this wonderful garden. ❤ from Down Under. 😮
What a stunning garden! Thank you for sharing this tour, Olga and Diane. That basement flower workshop is spectacular! Such a wonderful place to spend cold, dreary winter days working on beautiful floral projects. I'm so jealous!
Personally , i think the monarda is worth keeping. It is a great fragrant,indigenous pollinator,and has some health benefits. Through out history when tea was scarce and to expensive monarda has always served as poor mans tea. I think it should be thinned occasionally and to allow for better sunlight and air flow.
Indeed a paradise! This marvelous perennial border reminds me of the White Flower Farm designed by Christopher Loyd and Ferguson. She is an absolute artist. And Olga thank you so much for inviting us for the garden tour. And Diane thank you for opening your garden to us!!
What a wonderful garden, you have inspired me to get out there and plant some more flowers in my yard here in southeastern Connecticut, USA. I love flowers and would like to make a cutting garden.
Thanks for the tour Olga of Dianes impressive garden and enjoyed seeing the wreaths she made that are outstanding. A wonderful hobby & I could not live without mine!
Thank you so much, Mr and Mrs Redding for sharing your beautiful garden with us, and thank you, Olga for bringing us along with you to view such a gorgeous place. I need to learn more about redirecting rain water flow, as I live on quite a slope. You both have motivated me to start drying more of my flowers for wreath making! Thank your cameraman for me to, well done you!
What a lovely garden! Love the big sweeps of color and texture - those hydrangea! Lovely! Very peaceful place. Nice work by Diane & her hubby. What a great garden tour! Loved it:)
❤ ive been gardening for years When i retire ill be in my gardens full time . Ugh iam jellus of her little garden room those reaf are amazing.thank olga and Diane For sharing 💚 happy gardening
With regards to weeds I agree, my garden also is very full and theres simply no room for weeds to grow, makes it very easy. Also heavily leaf-mulched from the previous season is a good preventative measure for weeds. Thats great you have a source of free water, I have 4 x 275 Gall tanks taking water off the roofs and with a simple pump system makes watering a breeze. It really is nice when the garden gets filled out, if its all perennials I personally find its not that much "hard" work at that point, just maintenance and enjoyment.
Beautiful gardens .. Thank you Diana for sharing it with us..Great job Olga.. I love seeing these gardens as I live in CT as well.. it’s nice to see what can be grown here.. 🌸🌷🌞🌾
Olga, glad to find your channel. I have been looking for more channels in my zone (6b Lower Hudson Valley-so not far away). Diane is certainly a woman after my own heart as I am a retired professional who is finally able to follow her passion for gardening. Diane, your garden is truly lovely and an inspiration!
Absolutely beautiful gardens…such a labor of love! I love the gardens and what a lovely interview! Thanks for posting this Tracey. I notice her hubby’s name is Rex. After Grandpa Rex? How nice!! Wish I could come to CT.
I’m always drawn to garden videos where the owner maintains it him/herself. I just retired a few month’s back (I wish i’d done it a few years earlier actually) and own a large garden (1 acre) and the upkeep is daunting. I shall just have to man up, sharpen the tools and get on with it.
What a lovely garden, and parts are still young, that 25' border is just stunning. Wondering if she has a problem with bunnies and deer, such a delicious smorgasbord she's laid out for them. Thank you both for having us tag along.
What a lovely garden. Your flowers and shrubs are spectacular. I particularly liked what looked like a reubeccia with a orange ring around the center area. Can you tell me more about it? I would love to have one for my little garden.
Thank you very much! Regarding your Rudbeckia hirta question, if it’s the ones around 3.30 in the video, they were from my mother in law’s garden in Maine. She shared seeds with me several years ago and they’ve done very well here. I do have other Rudbeckia hirta varieties that I’m trialing in the cutting garden. If you might be referring to those, please let me know and I can check my seed purchases for which varieties they are.
@@dianetamboia4092 I would like to know the one in your trial garden. I keep seeing these beautiful flowers in garden but the seeds were always gifted to them. How tall are the ones in your trial garden? I absolutely love daisies, zinnias and black eyed susans. They are so sunny and cheerful. I love to pick them and bring them inside. Thank you so much for your help and I'll be on the lookout for the seeds.
Dried flowers are fragile yet while they do need to be handled with care, they are surprisingly durable once arranged into a wreath or bouquet. When I do have breakage I can often still use the flowers by hot glueing them into the arrangement. With proper care and placement, they can last a very long time.
I just subscribed. Could I make a comment. When you look at a garden please have the camera focus completely on the garden as you did at one short point. We really don’t need to see your back walking. I loved the close up of garden so we could see it specifically. Thank you.
Hello and duje dyakuyu za video! Can Diane explain when she sows her seeds with the grow lights? She mentioned she did two sowings, an early for the cooler flowers, and a later - 8000 plants... thank you!!
Hello and thank you so much for your interest! I read the book by Lisa Mason Ziegler. (Originally published: 2014) which describes how you can grow hardy annuals in cool weather. Using the guidelines and techniques described in the book I was able to grow many hardy annual varieties earlier and plant out in early April which is well ahead of our typical last frost of May 20th where we are located in Ct. My second seed sowing was timed for all the other annual varieties I wanted to grow that are not as cold tolerant. The second set of plants went out end of May/early June. Doing the early sowing for the hardy annuals had many advantages, including increased production and spreading the workload over two planting periods. I hope this helps but I highly recommend Lisa’s book if you’re interested in learning more about cold hardy annuals.
I’ve watched this video numerous times just to take it all in- absolutely stunning! Thank you both for this incredible tour 💕 Diane, would you mind sharing which shrub varieties you used for privacy around the 14:30 mark?
Thank you for the kind comments! We truly appreciate the lovely feedback. The plants in that border are one Variegated Red Twig Dogwood, Cornus alba 'Elegantissima', two Spartan Juniper, Juniperus chinensis 'Spartan', two Quick Fire Hardy Hydrangea, Hydrangea paniculata and one Korean Lilac, Syringa pubescens. Thanks again!
@@dianetamboia4092 I appreciate you taking the time to respond! I’m a new gardener + homeowner so this is extremely helpful as I plan for next year. Thank you again for the insight and inspiration 🥰
@@HeyGirlHeyyyyy you’re very welcome and I’m happy to help! One other plant I forgot to mention is a Chamaecyparis Pisifera (Cypress) ‘Gold Thread’. I’d also mention that when these shrubs were initially planted I had them set back about 6-7’ and then planted smaller shrubs and perennials in front of them. Since this border is now mature and the shrubs have grown larger, many of the smaller shrubs and perennials that were in front are gone or have been moved elsewhere in the garden. The privacy screen remains so that is good! Things continue to evolve which is a joy in gardening. Best of luck in your new home and happy gardening!
Thank you Diane, for getting involved with your very informative answers here. I was on vacation, was not able to be active on RU-vid, and your posts are super helpful!
The only thing I’ve tried is spraying some of the grasses with aqua net hairspray if I felt they were throwing seeds but otherwise I don’t use anything on them after drying to preserve them.
I thought we were supposed to leave flowers plants trees alone that are dying out so the pollinators/critters could eat all of that and then we harvest or seeds???
Hello and thanks for the question! I’m not 100%sure I found the right point of the video or the trees you’re asking about but if my neighbors cute shed is behind the deer fence I believe you are asking about two Thujas. One is Thuja occidentalis ‘Emerald’, Emerald Green Arborvitae. The other is Thuja x ‘MonPin’, Ember Waves Western Arborvitae. Hope this helps but any other questions please reach out. 😊
the shrubs are nice but No its too monotone with it like that if it was me and my garden i need a lot of color so i would put the shrubs on the perimeter so as not to kill them in transplanting as a border element then i would look at the inventory of wildflowers that are perennial and i would begin a waltz around the 2 acres to enhance the topo dynamic in the process maybe 5 trellis concepts that build the energy of the Garden as a whole if you go to CFP Christian Faith Publishing you can see my first Book of something like 8 manuscripts if you have a Carpenter that would help and pitch in we can to the Trellises and save a little on the price and total Build i love Hummingbirds and since your in Redding i know of their intern and volunteer base is pretty Good so you can use the project to teach some younger folks the craft and the Love of Gardening if you have some Glardia that is always a nice option as the red attracts the hummingBirds one of the birds that is always nice to see stop by to seek out nectar
a few year back i was fielding a start up Trellis Magic as i am a Journeyman Carpenter by trade as a Civilian i do a little wood sculpting thru Trellis Design i have some Pictures but they're old during the housing crisis i lost my first home 1/2 a million i was able to save my nursery stock of some 40 to 50 thousand dollars i lost a few beautiful Butterfly Bushes as a result of Chase stealing my house i had built my own greenhouse out of recycled wood and it was a 12 X12 with a hip roof and custom window glass if your interest we can work together to find a team that can manifest my design and your property about 10 K for a Hydrostent system that water system is far to small the pump can be solar too
I like the garden being the center of attention instead of your faces. Makes the viewer feel as though I am touring your garden along with you. Thanks!
