HOW TO CREATE A SMALL COTTAGE GARDEN 

Thank you for hanging out with me today! I hope you leave inspired! ❤

Wow, the plants you choose are so pretty togheter. I´m creating a cottage garden myself (I´m on it for about 4 years). And as I constantly get new inspiration it will never be finished. 😅Happy gardening! Hugs from Germany

Your yard should look spectacular by mid-summer with all the hard work you put in. Love your color selection of plants! 😊

Girl you are nothing out of the park over there 😊

I put a large pot in the center of my flower bed and created a solar water fountain feature. Pinterest has great non-electric water garden ideas. I got my solar fountain from Amazon $14.99 and it works great!

Anna, love the pots! I live in East Tennessee also, I have dianthus firewitch, it loves full sun. Highly recommend it! It turns into a rug, a beautiful rug!😂. Mine r probably 15 years old and they have spread all around my other perennials. And they smell incredible! God bless, John 3:16

The pink and purple shot just took my breath! This will be lovely. I like that you admit that change is needed and go for it. Your plans sound great!

Beautiful pink and purple combo

Looks so pretty! You and Ernie work so well together!

I would love to see a followup video in one month, then two months. This was fun to watch! I just found your channel today. 😊

Hi Anna🌺 . What a beautiful work at back yard garden it looks so pretty and purpule and the pink flowers are going to be amazing in your garden . Have a great day .🌻🌺🌻

Some plants just do the flop after planting when it’s hot. They should be just fine. Pretty!

Wow Anna, your garden is going to look so beautiful. I'm glad I found you! We're up in MN and we're just starting to think of getting out there with a rake! We had such a strange, but lovely super mild Winter, but the ground is still pretty cold. I love to garden and it's such an exciting time!! I know I'll love your channel!!

What a great idea for perennial grass!!! In a pot I am so going to do that too. Thank you for that great idea. I love your videos soooo much.❤

Congratulations on reaching 10,000 subscribers, Anna!

As I was watching this video, all I could think about was how much work you and Ernie did last spring. It’s really coming along nicely. I don’t think you’ll see much of the ground because those flowers are gonna take off with all the blooms and everything it’s gonna be gorgeous.

Beautiful!

The pots are goals!!! Next time don't waste all that soil.fill the bottom with the plastic nursery containers upside down so that you take up space then fill with soil 👍🏻

Can't wait to see it all fill in!❤

Love all of your content.❤ this video is so inspirational. Just purchased a home with a nice size flat backyard and no garden beds. This provides great inspiration to create beautiful spaces❤❤

Everything looks beautiful!!

Lots of hard work, but it is turning out really nice!.. great job, babe!.. i love it!!😘😘😊😊🥰🥰

What a amazing transformation from your original gardens, beautiful colors, can't wait until they all bloom. great job Anna and Ernie!

Good job beautiful garden thank enjoy and love that

Hi Anna. I am so glad to see you get that grass out of the ground and into pots. Ernie is correct about them. I have them in my yard and they do get huge and take over everything. I learned the hard way and now it is a constant struggle😂. Everything looks so good and I love that purple! Great job and I can not wait for the end result❤️

I can't wait to see your yard in another month, it's going to be beautiful!!

Looks so beautiful! 🌸🌸🌸 Have a wonderful day!

Looking very pretty.

I am loving the pink and purple color them you are going with Anna. 😊❤😊🌸🦋

Beautiful 🌿🌺🌸🌷🌾

Hi Anna, I'm new to your channel and I really like the gardening you're doing. Will watch more to see it bloom. Have a great day.

Loving your garden and all your videos. Keep up the great work. ❤⚜

Yay Anna! Perfect timing, just finished devotional and drinking coffee! 🙏

Your yard gets more lush each time you post a video. Hard work is definitely paying off. Love the new white planter pots ❤

Anna, you and your Hubby has done a great job in your garden and I know it will look very pretty when it all blooms. Thanks for sharing and have a great day.

Anna. Have you considered uniting the beds. Removing the thin area of grass. Replacing with stepping stones But it looks beautiful

Hi Anna! I can just see how beautiful your garden is going to look! The pink, purple, white and green will look so amazing! Thanks for the inspiration!

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

New to you channel. So inspired. Taking notes Going to be a blooming season. Thank you 💜

Your garden will be beautiful!

Looks very pretty

😮❤

Luv it

Your gardens are going to be show stoppers!!! 💜🤍💗😊

Anna everything looks so beautiful. You and Ernie have worked hard and you will be rewarded with the beauty as things grow. I so wish I could work in my yard like that. Nowadays I just have containers on my deck that I can take care of myself. By the way I will have surgery again as soon as the current infection clears up. They have decided to go in through my back straight to the kidney to get the large stone. That way I will have to have the least amount of time under anesthesia which is a concern with my other health issues. Appreciate your prayers. Love in Christ

Anna started w a clean slate and look what it’s become…..

Anna, I love the way your backyard is looking so pretty, beautiful pots😊☀️🌻🌻

I love gardening with you. Your garden is looking great. Can you send me the link for the step on edging tool your husband uses. Thank you

I love the pots Anna I think the grass look fabulous in them . The pinks and purples are going to be amazing ❤️

It’s gonna be beautiful when everything is bloomed

Anna I love the grasses in the white pots that’s a great idea. I will be doing grasses in pots this year. Your garden will be glorious when it blooms out. Purple and pink flowers will be very pretty.

Anna, I love how your yard is coming along, it’s so beautiful.

I love how y'all work together. So jealous! Have you ever watched Hortube? He is so knowledgeable about plants and feeding the soil. I believe he had a nursery for 30+ yrs and is a certified landscaper. The grass in the pots looks great. Such a good solution.

I love your videos especially when you are out with the flower beds . So much inspiration

I personally love the pinks and purples with a touch of yellow in the garden ❤

Hey Friend, Happy Friday. It’s amazing to see which plants did well in the winter and which ones didn’t do well. 😮 I’m always enjoying seeing what kind of plants/flowers you’re adding to to your garden next. ❤ I have been enjoying watching the garden journey and hard work that you and Ernie put into your garden. I love seeing things that you are going to do the same and change about your garden for this year. ❤🥰🦋

Anna the back garden looks beautiful and your grass is so nice and green.

Good Morning Anna and Ernie...I love all the new flowers...I gravitate towards blue and purple flowers...I bought several blue Hydrangeas and bought some soil amendments to turn my existing Hydrangeas blue, hoping it works !! The grasses look great in the pots !! Y'all have a great weekend ⚜️❤️💐❤️⚜️

lol love your hairl

Your gardens look beautiful. I’m a pink and purple lover so I’m looking forward to seeing the growth throughout the summer.

Looks awesome!! Love how you and Ernie garden together 😍

Looking beautiful Anna

Anna the garden looking beautiful!

anna your doing a great job

Hi Anna, your garden is looking great. Why not plant you tall grass between, but in front of your arborivitaes. You will still get that whimsy.

I love your garden! I am also excited to see your channel growing 💗💗💗 Have a great weekend!

It’s looking good Anna! Have a great weekend!!😊

Can’t for everything to be in full bloom.

💕💖👍🏻💖💕

Try using Preen in your garden beds after weeding. It really does help to keep the weeds at bay if you haven’t heard of it 😊

So inspired by your gardening videos! Can you please share what brand of edger your husband uses? It appears to make quick work of edging the garden beds!

Beautiful gardens! Love it all! Where are the pots from?

مسيرة مزفقة⅚ 🎍🎍🎍🎍🎍🎍💔💔💔👍🏻👍🏻🫱🏻‍🫲🏾🫱🏻‍🫲🏾⚘️⚘️

I am loving the music!

Turned out beautiful! 😍

Beautiful Anna &Ernie,I love how everything looks. Your almost done with your garden an I haven’t been able to start here in upstate NY, I can’t wait as you are giving me so much inspiration. Thanks for sharing ❤Barb

👏🏼 BRAVO!!!! 👏🏼

Yup landscape fabric for me is only used to kill weeds to make a new flower bed or under rocks cuz I don’t want the rocks to go under the soil as I’m stepping on them. I actually would rather use cardboard to kill weeds or grass for a new flower bed. Also adding compost around the plants every spring is important and having landscape fabric make it difficult to improve the soil.

I love watchen you, you make me want to get outside and do mine but being 7 months pregnant i cant move that great lol maybe next year!!!!

Anna, I always enjoy your gardening videos. I'm not sure if you realize that every time you put your hand in front of the camera, when showing us something in the garden, your camera focuses on your hand. Because it focuses on your hand, we can't see what you're actually trying to show us, and it's very distracting. We want to see your beautiful garden, although your hands are beautiful too.😊 I look forward to more of your gardening videos. Oh, great decision on moving those grasses. They do get very large. Ty

I could go bankrupt buying plants. lol

So inspiring! You give me so many great ideas that I want to try out in my garden. This garden has all my colors and textures. I love the idea of the grass in the pot, I have a pool and the grass would look nice around it. You may want to watch a video by Laura from the garden answer, she has a great video on butterfly bushes, they aren't big on over watering and fertilizer, check her out. I didn't catch the name of that purple Salvia you planted, could you let me know what it's called. I enjoy all your videos, love your excitement for gardening, it's contagious! Keep on digging!

Anna , where did Ernie get the hand edger that he uses to make a trench? It looks like it would be do handy.

You better be careful digging around in mulched areas with no gloves on. I know its hard to plant with gloves on but move the mulch out of the way and dig around alittle with a garden tool before sticking hands in there. Years ago, I was removing some weeds that had grown on top of mulch and I had to dig into the mulch just a little...when suddenly I saw something squiggle up out of the mulch!! I moved back because it didnt look right, got my shovel and dug into the mulch. There was not one but a bunch of baby COPPERHEAD SNAKES. They say the babies are more venomous than the adults. So just be careful everyone and know that snakes will lay eggs in mulch and theyll hatch out. I always have to Thank God for protection ❤❤❤ amen

Ms .Anna if you lived next to me I'd be loving. Going by your home 👀 at your yard . To me you got class sister.

Did you use tubing with holes through your pots? If so, you are supposed to use tubing without holes to go up through your pots and use the tubing with holes to lay on top of the soil.

If you aren’t using the landscape fabric how do you keep weeds down?

Anna, I'm just getting into gardening and have very few tools, when my eye caught the tool Ernie is using to cut the edges. What is it called and where he'd buy it? ;) please

Anna, what is the name of the treatment you used for the butterfly bush that looked like it was dying?

Beautiful, Anna! Why is the garden fabric bad for the plants?