Just a broke girl trying to make her garden dreams come true! Super Cheap Budget Garden Makeover UK 

Gardeners are generous people. If you see something you like in your neighbour’s gardens just ask!! I’d certainly give you a piece of a plant or 2 to help you fill your garden. We have to divide our perennials anyway. When I divide mine I place pieces in plastic bags or pots with a sign that says free. Never had to bring any back in yet haha.

Tips: If you buy plants, only buy perennials that come back every year. Then, in a couple of years, you can divide them and have more plants. Sometimes, I buy a 1 gallon perennial and immediately cut it in half to make 2 plants. I have also found abandoned plants at the local yard waste site. I rescued them and brought them home. People always want to get rid of hostas and daylilies! Take them. They're virtually maintenance-free.

Ok, now I'm invested! I need to see how this sweet little garden grows so I've subscribed!

I live in a block of flats, which has a skip bin a house away from mine. It never fails to amaze me what people will throw away!! And I get so much from what people leave by it ~ I've built a walk in chicken coop , attached chunnels and am currently building shelves and perches. The wood is free~there's a glass factory a 10min walk away, they throw out wood glass pallets ~5 metre long 2x1's which I collect weekly. The paint was free too, a la The Bin~near on 4litres of white exterior and about 5litres of Gray. I have no car. I have no power tools except the one between my ears 😂 but it's looking the job. All the plants I have in the garden I got for free , divided and replanted and now the garden is lush and filled. Free pavers ~120 of them, dug out and cleaned , stored on (you guessed it) free pallets. All power to you~You can do it!❤

I so much enjoy this video, so real…there a lot of us that we cannot afford to buy what we wish to buy, so we have to be creative and find ways. Gave me a lot of ideas…in no time your garden will be what you dream of ❤

Here’s an idea. Visit a garden centre and look around the plants for bits that have fallen off. Don’t break bits off because that’s stealing but bits that have naturally fallen off just pick them up and take them home and try rooting them at home. Not everything will take but some will and once they root they will grow. It may take a long time but it’s a free way of getting lots of lovely plants.

Hi Melissa! I live in central Illinois, USA and I’m a novice gardener as well. One thing I’m absolutely sure of is that even “master gardeners” have garden fails so just enjoy the hobby. If a plant doesn’t take well in a spot, move it to where it will. My advice is to learn about the plants you want to grow to make sure they will thrive in your garden based on three important factors; soil, light, water. I would also recommend starting your own plants if you can and sowing annual seeds in spring to fill up any bare areas! The little bed looks great!

another easy to grow seed would be nasturtiums. they are edible and vine up. they are really simple to grow

I do the same thing at the garden center. Buy things discounted. Enjoy when I can bring them back to life. Sometimes they fail but that is the fun to experiment.

I never make a trip to the garden center without checking out the clearance rack. I can tell which have life in them and can be brought back, and which are too far gone. Some days I get lucky!

Thank you for sharing your gardening on a budget. I live in South Carolina, USA and am retired from teaching. I spend my time gardening and am on a budget. I get so many ideas from You-Tubers. There's one, Olga Carmody who lives in Connecticut, USA. She is originally from the Ukraine. She likes to make things from branches. She made an arbor and trellises, etc. I gathered branches from my yard and also others' brush piles near the street. I won't say that it was easy, but I'm still proud of how it turned out. You might try using branches for structures. Thanks again.

I just came across your YT channel and loved this video of what you did with your garden on a budget. Great job!

That was too funny about the birds! I was just telling my husband about a pair I was watching through the window, they must’ve twitterpated 20 times 😂😂

Your garden is really cute, brilliant obelisk idea with the butterflies. I know how that is being on a budget. Though I am not familiar with how it is in Norther Ireland...if U have time, sometimes area communities have "garden clubs" they r not all snobby, they have plant sales, sometimes exchanges. To save cash learning how to propagate perennials is a must. Also, I have painted "cheap" plastic pots with "concrete color paint" with by "pouncing rag or brush" to look like pottery, can be done. :D Wishing you many great garden plants. :D

Your humor is lovely, and all you've done is relaxing to watch. I'm an amateur longing for my own cottage garden in the middle of the USA, the middle of Indiana, so what you're doing is inspiring. New subscriber here, can't wait to see how it all turns out.

the only issues with the stones, if you don't have tarp under it, they will eventually sink into the ground. so idk if you have any landscape cloth under them or not.

Oh my gosh. I love your excitement and your vision. 😊

Flower boxes on your windows of the house would be so cottage cute. Also pots of flowers at the end corner on both sides would be pretty. Your house is cute. The garden is coming along beautifully

Great job! That paint really tied the whole area together. I'm a big fan of perennials, they're friends of cheap gardeners like me! I bet you can find someone happy to divide and share.

Thank you for sharing your garden vision and hard work on the transformation. I really enjoyed it and I found it very relatable - so many RU-vidrs seem to have ridiculous budgets and it’s inspiring to see you make a beautiful garden on a budget with your creativity, ideas and graft 👏👏👏

Hi another broke lass here trying my best to get my garden how I want it with very little budget just took cuttings from the plants I’ve already got in my garden before I prepare my new flower beds… your doing a great job in your garden I will definitely pick up lots of ideas from watching your content

I think you are doing a great job. I live in TN USA and I love to add to my garden every year. Just add slowly and you will get what you are dreaming of soon. I enjoyed your content and am a new sub!

I love perennials are budget free plants. A new subscriber

Love the obelisk that you embellished with the bees❤ that was really clever

Ooh, I can see hanging baskets on the house with lots of pots with tall plants under the windows to soften the hardscape and bring your garden to the house. Have fun

I actually was at a local park and noticed that the surrounding landscaping had not been cared for in a while. There were some perennial plants that had sprouted off little baby plants. I dug up a few babies from the original plant and they are now a part of my garden.

A packet of wildflower seeds will be relatively cheap and they will also self seed so you would be able to fill your garden year after year. You can also buy fresh herb plants in the supermarket for about £1 and plant them in the borders for coverage and scent.

Immediately following. I'm also a broke girl and I use seeds and freebies to make my garden. Each year it looks better and better. I can't wait to watch your progress.

I’ve been on a low buy garden journey this year too! So much more fun to be creative and meet new people getting things for free than buying everything. Loved watching this video! Your garden is looking amazing! Great job! Post an update so we can see how everything fills out by end of summer! :)

Well done. loved the obelisk idea. You can also make really cheap obelisks using big bamboo canes or long sticks and tying them at the top with string and putting some smaller sticks/canes across at right angles. once plants grow up them you don't see the supports. Try growing runner beans - they shoot up have big showy leaves, gorgeous hanging red flowers - and then a harvest at the end - and you don't just have to grow then in a "vegetable bed" ! Try researching potager gardens - where flowers and vegetables are all mixed together. Good luck. doing well so far.

What a lovely set of videos. As a budget gardener myself, keep an eye out online nurseries have sales or free delivery of bulbs and small plug plants. Worth growing and adding.

You've done a great job 🥇If you see a flower you like just take cuttings it's fun and free .Or buy cheap. seeds and scatter ,some of the mixes have wonderful cottage garden plants 🙂

Just found your channel, i love how real this is, it can be hard t9 get your dreams for the home, but yes slow and steady and one day you will have it. Subscribed and can't wait to see how your garden blooms. ❤

Beautiful job on your cheap gardening plans .love it. Just one suggestion, use a bigger drill bit to make the holes a tad bit bigger, as well as a few more holes for better drainage.

Your dreams can totally come true. Gardeners are generous people, we love to talk about our gardens, and we can give you free advice! If you ask local gardeners if they can spare any cuttings, I’ve even seen people put out a sign that said “please share any cuttings you may have and it worked. Also, many cottage garden flowers will reseed and spread themselves. On RU-vid, the old BBC special, Geoff Hamilton’s Cottage Garden shows him creating cottage gardens: I learned a lot from that special! Good luck.

I think that area has a lot of potential!

I think that area has a lot of potential! You made a lot of progress.

Cottage gardens have lots of annuals and perennials that you can buy as seeds ( lupine, foxgloves, delphiniums, nasturtiums etc ) and will self seed in the garden if you allow them to. So essentially you get flowers year after year. Also for woody plants like fuchsia take cuttings and propagate them. You could also ask neighbours if they are splitting plants that are too large to save a small clump for you.

Excellent, very similar to how I have landscaped many, many areas

I wish I was your neighbor!!! I would love to share cuttings of my flowers and plants w you. My neighbor is a master gardener and 90% of my flower beds are all from cuttings from her. Your garden is beautiful!

add sunflowers. seed are cheap and you can get the small teddy bear ones that are short and fluffy looking. you can also succession plant them. You can get the tall ones too. They would look nice along your back fence. Then you save all your seed from them when they die back, and never have to buy sunflower seed again, year after year.

Ask on social media if anybody has any plants they’d like to get rid of. Some people are constantly replacing and throwing out older plants.

I'm trying to do the same thing currently and this video was quite inspiring and I absolutely love the tranquil asmr-esque ending ❤

I really enjoyed your show! Cute little garden and love how you’re doing it on a budget.

I tuned in just for the title 😅

I am doing the same thing this year. I have been working on it all this year. One purchase a week is how I do it. I pick Tuesdays to go to shopping. for that day is the day clearance Items go out in the garden section and goodwill has 30% off all items. so I go adopt clearance plants and baskets and planters at goodwill at little cost.

Hello from South Africa. Excited to follow your garden journey. Your before and after looks great🎉

Greetings, my first time visiting your channel,,, you made wonderful progress and love the chickens. It’s more rewarding and a challenge when you have to be on a budget, great job!❤

Gardens always tend to be more expensive than the budget of the gardener so you just keep at it. In the big tyre maybe look to plant a fruit tree, like a lemon or whatever grows well in your area. Or you could go an ornamental plum or similar so you get the spring blossoms.

I’ve now brought 3 stick like rose bushes at Poundland and they’ve all taken , growing well and flowering this year …

Facebook marketplace here in Canada, just north of Toronto, always has people selling off perrenials for very little. I've planted 5 🤞🤞I loved this video, can't wait to see how your garden grows ✌️💜

That's a fantastic price for a bleeding heart (dicentra)! Here -- the US -- I rarely see one that isn't close to or over 20 USD!

Lovely! Fun gardening and it looked great when done.

As a gareners we always have loads of plants that we cannot throw away so most people are more then willing to give or trade for another plant they just have to have. I would learn how to take cuttings and split plants this way you will be able to take cutting etc from your own plants and to give other people this will save you money and make good friends Good luck with your garden when you are hock on gardening there is no going back

You have the cutest flowers beds and those labels are charming!❤

Along with water , plants also need fertilizer given weekly during the growing season x protection from sligs and bugs ,crushed eggshells slso provide along with used coffee grounds , source of nutrition , Great effort on a budjet so keep up the good work Melissa and thSnk you so much for sharing this video content in Yountube ..Happy Gardening to you 👍😊😊

cracking job liz

Hi! Liked your video and hard work and thought you put into your gardening! You have a giant Heuchera there in the front strip next to a small tree?, that can be divided into 3 - 5 plants. Easy! dig it out and look at the growth, you can cut through and divide that, replant new, free plants! Have fun!

What a cute video 🥰 somebody pls get her some pebbles for her garden and a couple of flowers though 😅🙏❤ Very nice before and after

If your mother has a flowerbed full of flower ask if when please share . That's how I got started on my flower bed ,it was just hostas but the bushes and trees . Peach ,paw paw, cherry bushes just from her seeds into the compost pile 2 and counting each year, elderberry Bush from one cutting it took 3 years but now it blooming. Black raspberry,thornless BlackBerry And now I have 7 areas with raspberries and one Area with both berries,2 rhubarb plants and now I have 2 areas 15 plants. One comfrey plant Into 20 and best natural fertilizer for all plants. I've only had too buy Apple,cherry,peach , and plum dwarf trees. I mix my strawberries with my flowers too have a ground cover of green and was blessed with a free bunch of 2' tall purple star bell flowers and a yellow flower with red centers. This fall I will transplant them Into flower bed. I bought asparagus 20 2 year old roots and 75 strawberry plants. The asparagus I still have a few plants and the strawberries are gone due too a neighbor spraying weed killer. Not bad for having strawberries for 23 years.

I just came across your YT channel and loved this video of what you did with your garden on a budget. I'm a new subscriber and I live in Florida, USA. You did a great job!!!

Just a thought from my side. Be careful of buying the discounted annuals. They are probably discounted because they are end of season. So in the end you pay more because it is not going to last long. So be aware of what is in season. Grow your own from seeds. Ask for cuttings and seeds from flowering plants in neighbours yards. I loved the obelisk!

Your garden is looking so nice. It’s amazing what you can do on a small budget. I to always look for discounted flowers. You are so right, you do the best with what you have. It will turn out beautiful. Loved the video. I so look forward to your videos. 😊🇨🇦

I use my tomato cages upside down and use a metal clothes for bent stacks to hold it in place. Use brown and rust colored paints dab on with makeup sponge.

Paint the tire and plant wildflowers in it :D

I love the wall around your garden, you have good bones to work with…I’m a poor girl as well, but that doesn’t stop me..little by little it all comes together, I always search our restore for pots and some of my most unique pots have come from there.

I loved your cottage garden video today. I’m trying to build a cottage garden in my own garden. It’s a long process. I’ve been working on it for about a year or two already trying to find plants that I love . That will work in my garden. I live in Southern California. It’s very hot and dry here. You have given me so much inspiration for my own cottage garden

Last year I just didn't have the money for even seeds, so while driving home I saw a wild flower in a empty city lot so I thought if the flower can grow there without being watered! right so I pulled over and took it with root I ended up with a wild garden in my yard, it looked lovely.

I spray my metal pigs with rustoleum before putting them outside for the summer to keep them looking good

New subscriber…. Really enjoyed this video!❤

So charming, it will be gorgeous

I believe what you called "weeds" in the tire may have been wild mustard...which is kind of cool and beneficial to keep in the garden. Kudos to you though for creating with what you have or can get on a budget...I'm there with you. Your garden looks awesome! I love the way the baskets look on the fence.

The last you bought in the pink pot is a Bleeding Heart. 5hat will do very well in a garden environment planted directly in the ground. Over time it will fill out and spread but it's not considered invasive.Looking at your garden area, I thought Id to suggest take the area between the square garden with 3 trees and the hedge....you could extend the rounded brick lined garden area and include this other area. You could removed the sod or leave it and plant various varieties of Hostas and use a whipper snipper to maintain the area around the hostas. Hostas grow very well I poor soil and shade. Here in Canada where I am, they will grow just about anywhere and lots of folks will have them for cheap or give away. They make beautiful fillers for difficult areas and will increase in size each year so you can dig and divide them and make more garden areas. Why not turn your tire into a nice herb garden or plant rhubarb and strawberry plants jn it. Just a few ideas. Just found your channel and enjoyed your video very much. ( new subscriber) 😊

You live in a beautiful location. One way to fill your garden is to split plants that can be split or propagate bushes.

Love your enthusiasm and dedication. It’s all looking beautiful 😊 Jf you breed Jackie chan with a white leghorn you’ll get a zombie chicken 😅 random I know but wanted to share that tidbit. He’s very handsome 😊

I love your creativity. Your garden is beautiful!

3:50 take cuttings from friends/family/neighbours/strangers gardens. Easy to fill a small bed for next to nowt. I'm trying to grow from seed but flowers are so slow & difficult. Loads of online seed shops with sales on now. I try to shop in the clearance section in garden centres. It's usually 2 quid a plant. I get perennials so I can then separate them in the autumn or following spring.

Came across your channel and had to investigate the accent, northern Ireland or Scottish. As I suspected , the north. Good idea to look for plants in super arkets where they sell them off cheap after being neglected. A drop of water and replant works wonders. Watching you water and you seem to over water ...

you can make cages with bamboo stakes and tie them together at the top. these work well for peas and beans, and end up being cheaper. if you have access to bamboo plants themselves you can cut and harvest your own bamboo and not have to even buy them. but usually bamboo stakes and poles are the least expensive.

You are doing a great job, its looking wonderful, cant wait for more transformation video's 😊

I would make a stick trellis and plant sugar snap peas or sweet potatoes in the back ground and radishes in the small spaces left.

Great job! Keep up the good work!!

Jakers you did well to get all that fence painted in 3 hours. Well done. I love the bleeding heart plant. If you haven't put that in the ground yet, do. It grows into a lovely big bush. We have clay soil here in Cavan (you probably have the same) and it didn't mind it one bit. I just mixed a bit of compost in and it flew. So easy to look after. The dog dug it up too many times thought and it eventually gave up the ghost. Sadly, the dog is now gone (r.i.p. Rusty Dawg, best golden lab ever). You reminded me though that I must get another one.

I love the after and you are a doll❤

Wow what a cool garden look forward to seeing your updates, Ali 🌞🥵🇨🇦

The plant with the purple flower spike is a Bugle and they are low growing ground cover.

Seeds usually 99p, you can get cottage garden and wild flower mixes some self seed so spread by themselves :)

Get a hand saw and cut at least five inches from around the iinside rim of that huge tyre, top and bottom and you'll get a lot more plants in there. You can tidy the raw edge with rubber car trim.

I will enjoy watching you create this garden. It will be charming. I like your idea for decorating the obelisk. I will keep my eyes open for supplies to do that. One more free thing you can do is straighten your crooked pavers and garden bins. Re-make the screen covers so they fit better and stain the wood frames the same color as the bins.

Girl I'm living .y dream to, I've always dreamed to have like a secret garden , we now grow perennial fruit 80% a s 20 % vegetable, it's theropy, I get so .uch joy❤❤

Could you put herbs like rosemary and thyme in to the beds or put in mixed flower seeds for bees? Also the pound shop and Lidl and Aldi they have great cheap flowers. Also there's some great outdoor paints in The Range even small tubs or get some tester pots. Also you could look at charity shops for outdoor lanterns or buddhas or plant pots. Also Poundland have pots and good roses and seed packets. And aldi have good solar lights. Also you can half a tomato or onion and bury the tomato with the seeds or cut the onion and you can grow tomatoes or any veg from shop bought. You could spray the pots. Also if you buy lavender one year it could put it in year after year as it's hardy.

Just came across your video. I love your content and am now a new subbie!❤

You did a good job transferring the garden.. thanks for sharing.. New subscriber here from Growing My Own.

Im from Alberta Canada enjoyed your vido veey much

Proud of you!

Stay motivated❤

You just popped up as a suggestion on RU-vid 👍 you tick all my boxes ✔ subscribed and are crunching all your videos 😊 you remind me of Cass from Clutterbug I wish you every success with your channel and look forward to watching your future content 😉👍 x

This is fun watching.wish you were nearby im always trying to control their spread. One tip from me . Please wear good gloves. Looks great .enjoy.

Love what you're doing in your garden, my advice to make a wonderful cottage garden is to target your efforts to make it more attainable, take note of where you see the most and focus there first and then over the years as plants grow larget (generally not shrubs), you can divide and propergate to get more free plants, which also adds some consistency through a large garden ❤️ Good luck and enjoy the process!

You’re doing a great job. Your garden is charming. A good way to get free plants is to ask neighbors and friends for cuttings. Geraniums add a ton of color and are very easy to start from cuttings. I don’t know your growing zone but they may need to be protected in winter. Also if you have Facebook group of gardeners in your area you can just ask for starts. Gardeners are a generous lot and love to share with newbies.