Michelle you make gardening doable. I wish we were neighbors. I live in 6b in northern New Mexico. Our weather systems are very similar! So glad I found you.
I watched your reveal and I loved it! It turned out so beautiful. I live in central Florida, zone 9A so, of course a lot of the plants you chose would not do well here but several would and I use them in my gardens as well. I really like seeing your layouts(designs) for the gardens.
I hope that your bur oak grows as quickly as my pin oak did here in Iowa City, IA...it was six feet tall when planted 25 years ago and is now looming over our two story house. I never thought I would live to see it get as high as the house!
I put solar tiny white lights on my arbor and I absolutely love them. I think they would be great on your arbor. I want to get Lady of Shallot roses for my arbor. I’m glad to see you used them for the same application I was thinking of for them. That gives me the confidence to try it.
I just love your cottage garden Michelle. Isn’t it interesting watching our gardens evolve and change along the way. I’m enjoying the process of the journey and learning from other people like you so thank you so much. 👍
So so gorgeous--such a lovely 4-season-interest and colorful mix! Would you please do a tutorial on making gabions with the tall and short cages? Would love to replicate something like that. Thank you!
Very lovely! You always inspire. Those gabion pieces, 🤔 now I'm wondering where I can put something like that. I've been working on a garden all season long. At the end of the day, I take copious photos and stare at them for hours, dreaming of what to put in the "holes." I really like that Veronica's icy blue tone.
Yeah tulip trees get really big and they get they grow fast so watch out for it it will go fast and they received their self too so you'll get some extra ones but you can give them away give them up or whatever so it's nice I'm the one with the 30s at memorial Park in New Kensington PA and I enjoy my 30 gardens out there all mostly flowers I have some fruit fruit trees my phone keeps going I enjoy watching
Fabulous garden you have created......you have a great eye. I really like the gabeon pillar. I think I will see if I can make one. I am making a cottage garden and I am looking for ideas. You did an outstanding job and I learned about some new plants and also trees. Many thanks.
I love the results! I appreciate that you explain how you install the path/hardscapes and what you use. I want to landscape my front yard, and your videos are inspiring, but that won't be until another year or two, but I did have 3 trees installed. It's a start, right? The gabion table and pedestal are gorgeous. I also like the paver planter. All of those touches make your garden unique. I Like your enthusiasm and your "dont stress about it" approach to gardening. A lot of young gardeners want things just right; well, that's not how nature works. I have been gardening for a long time but I am always learning something new! Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us! Btw, I garden in Southern California, Zone 10a.
I am in awe of quickly and intuitively you pulled together such a beautiful combination of plants, hard scapes and whimsical elements to create the foundation of a cottage garden that will bring you years of enjoyment. Your love of gardening and passion for teaching show through in every video!!! You are very generous in sharing your time and expertise 😇
I am a new subscriber I am so happy I found you😊 I love your cottage garden it came out beautiful! I have been looking for ideas for my blue & white Garden shed thanks for all the great ideas! I am so excited for spring!❤ I am also Zone5B
I love your ideas! We just moved to a new house in a new state and it’s a big overwhelming empty canvas. You’ve given me a starting point! Thank you and keep inspiring us to grow!
So happy you have already had a little visitor to your beautiful cottage garden! It is already lovely and will only continue to grow and fill in. I’m sure you will enjoy sitting out there in the evenings with a cold drink taking it all in. Enjoy!
Your creative ideas are fantastic and just my style! Such a great number of cottage garden plants. I can't wait to get some of each in my garden! ❤🎉❤🎉❤🎉❤
The raccoon is checking out your work. You could add a water feature they love washing their hands ❤😅 I enjoy your garden ideas and your knowledge of the plants and projects your designing is awesome.
Ok this was bugging me, because my tag clearly said climber, and I watched Laura at Garden Answer plant one on a trellis at her sister house too...same one...Apparently there are both climbing and shrub versions of this David Austin Rose. While the climber is considered a shorter variety, it is a climber. So now we both learned something 😀
Such a joy to watch as you walked us through your beautiful, new cottage garden….Michelle, it is absolutely gorgeous!!! You’re so right, this makes me want to get out and get to planting!!! Only it’s 102° where I live right now but, I will be anxious to get started in the fall!! Love everything you planted….can’t wait to see the progression over time….especially loved that rose arbor, the winding path, and the gabions…you’re so clever!! 🌼
So pretty! One suggestion...maybe create a curvy softer edge with the dogwoods? It would look more natural instead of the straight edge of the shed and a straight edge with the dogwood. Otherwise, gorgeous!
Your cottage garden is beautiful and it is you! Thanks for taking us along thru the process. Would alternating the solar lights give it a looser look, less regimented? Great job!
The lights are only side by side at the beginning of the walk by the arch. I did alternate them the rest of the way, so good eye, you are absolutely right. 😉
Liriodendron (tulip tree, tulip poplar) leaves are catface shaped. The Chinese cultivars only grow to 30 ft. to 40 ft. tall. It has a tap root and the wood is flexible so there aren't a lot of branches that drop during wind storms. My tulip tree is at least 60 ft. tall and it is 105 years old. It would have been taller, up to 80 ft. tall, if my soil wasn't a mixture of clay and sandstone chunks.
Tulip tree we had in New Jersey 75+ tall we had it for over 50 yrs until it got hit by lightning and split the tree broke our hearts to have to take it down.
I love the moon and sun you placed on your barn, did I mess it on where you bought that? Love love love how you have a red barn, I’m jealous for I’ve always wanted one! Everything look so beautiful!!!! So, glad I found you on RU-vid!
Wow!! That came out beautifully and I hope you are able to sit there often and enjoy the view. That is alot of work. I missed Part 2, so now I will go watch that one. I love the stone planter you made. I really like stone planters, but the cost soooo much and I think I could make one after seeing yours! I will watch closely to see how you made the basket tables too. Congratulations! Do you or are you planning to have irrigation? Thanks!
This is just beautiful! I know you will use this a lot! morning coffee or late-night cocktails. I love the rock tables and the patio stone container; how did you make these do you have a video of this? love love Genie : )
OMG!!!! Michelle, that is freaking amazing. You certainly are talented....I'm just working on a 1000$ per year budget on landscaping.....what would you suggest for a project like your cottage garden....ie...just the bones/framing first yr, then the additional plantings....? Idk....but that looks absolutely gorgeous, I totally feel.your esthetic
Wow, thank you! Costs for hardscape stuff is so different from region to region. You should be able to get.most of the "bones" on that budget. Shop around.
Have been following the process, it’s absolutely lovely, great suggestion for your arch, I’m just about to move mine and we get pretty crazy winters and high winds in Canada, we are Zone 4, so might “steal” your suggestion. Can I ask your opinion on landscape fabric, redoing a garden bed and my landscaper is suggesting it?? Not so sure. Enjoy that beautiful garden.
Ok, this is just my opinion and my experience with it. I ripped it out all the time as a landscaper. I think it is a waste of money. Cheap thin fabric does not work. And it will only surpress weeds some. Weeds will find those holes you cut in the fabric and grow through. And weeds will grow on top. I only use it to smother something and I am not planting anything there, or if I am putting in rock (I don't want the rock to work into the ground) or something like the sand around the firepit. I also use a pretty expensive very high quality fabric if I do use it. In the cottage garden project I used fabric where the sand is around the firepit only. I sprayed all the weeds out in this area before we even started. (Did that in the Getting Rid of Weeds Video) Good cultural practices, in my opinion, are better, at least for me. Please note this is just my opinion, and I garden in my spots all the time, so I am always moving and adding plants, so fabric is a waste. You have to do what is right for you.
So pretty I love how organized it is and how you described the plants so well. Can all Perennials be cut back to the base and know they will come back either this year or next year ?
In addition to normal annual cutting back I have been cutting back for years throughout the season, sometimes because we had to move them in the summer or divide them. Sometimes I would lose one, but 95% of the time if I watered them and fertilized them a couple weeks later (I don't fertilize them after Sept 15th here in zone 5) I have great success. In all my years in landscaping the biggest issue was never cutting them back...it was almost always water issues.
I don't think so, thank you for trying to help me identify it, you are a darling. It came out of a black can and all the Knock-out roses I buy from the wholesalers have their own trademarked pots. Plus I know for a fact that I have never ordered in peach Knock-outs for the store.
Have you done an update? It would be cool to see an update and changes you had to make. I'm also in 5 and trying so hard but I think 2 of my roses didn't make it and my peonies are 2 years in- lots of sun didn't bloom but the one in the shade did.
You originally said that David Austin rose would grow to 8 feet and then when you were reading the description you said 4 feet? I can look it up but I’m concerned for you. It won’t go over the top of your arch if it’s only 4 feet.
@@gardeningTLC is there another climbing rose that blooms and blooms all summer. I'm designing a garden for a real estate. Client and I want a side yard gate with an arch and either a rose or. .... Thank you!
