Creating a Magical Courtyard Garden: part 2  

Agree on the music...I talk to and stroke the plants as well and talk to the lizards scampering through the foliage...awesome choice on the figs btw, I have 2 trees in my yard and they are both fruiting, love their leaves. Wish I could grow lavender, but Florida is just too hot, it's a real chore figuring out what will grow well here, but I've learned a lot in 2 years, lots of native plant nurseries and plants for permiculture food growing, Seminole pumpkins and sweet potatoes are on the menu, but so much is edible and fun to discover...you always put me in the mood to go back out for another hour of the scorching heat...then back in to the air conditioning...have a great weekend as well...!

The obelisks add height and interest to the courtyard. Love the planters and the plants. Looks fab chip 🌳🌳🌳🍀🍀🌾🌾🌾🐈‍⬛

Fig! Inspired idea ❤ If the lavender doesn't work out , you can always switch ... The contrast of leaf texture and colour is great. Wish my garden looked like that.😊 Will start talking nicely to the plants...and give them a good shower to music. Thanks Chip

Right. I'll be storming out tomorrow to purchase baby lavender for my lonely potted fig. ❤ from South Africa 🇿🇦

Beautiful, you are an artist. "into the garden I go to free my mind and ease my soul".

Perfect music to accompany the washing off of your beloved plants! Everything looks wonderful.

Awe....you have done it again! When I watch you create it is like poetry. Love the music!

WOW looks fab!!!

love love love your design. I am an obelisk girl! and have several in my yard. Now Chip, please tell us where do you overwinter the smaller and pretty boxwoods on pots. Cheers

Absolutely stunning 😍

Sitting with my tea & toast, I watched this early morning inspiration for my newly designed pebble and container garden. After preparing the plot, and sorting out the surface area, I am frozen into inactivity, I have been dithering about choosing plants. I'm calling it The Japanese Garden, but every day it gets a new title. I'm starting with a lovely acer,. Not just because it's Japanese, but because I love them. But I think having a theme is getting in the way as it's discounting plants I absolutely love, and also limiting the number of plants I can have. So I'm throwing the theme ( and all titles) out the window. Thank you, Chip, for this much-needed shot in the arm. I think I'm off to buy a fig.

Thanks Chip! What a beautiful courtyard you are creating! I love it! And the cat is the icing on the cake… we had a pure black cat a few years ago. We called her PussPuss. She’s gone now… and we miss her. 😎🇨🇦

Beautiful 🪴💚

Chip, you are my inspiration, everything you do is so beautiful.

It's 9.25 am in Trinidad 🇹🇹. And, I'm having a meditation while watching you.. 🧘🏾‍♀️. My plants are in for quite a wetting today..lol🫠😆🙃

💗🌿🐛☺️🦚 #green, #rust, #lavender, #claypots, #northseapebbles, #fig #chipsgreenworld💗👍☺️🦚🌿🐛🙏

Totally agree about height … in addition to an Olive tree in a pot I’ve just added four 12 ft pencil cypresses in pots against my house wall in my small space and they work beautifully to give some scale to the planting and balance the 9ft high pergola at the other end of my green courtyard style garden 🙂

I always love watching your videos.

Ohhh! this is awesome! Where did you get the metal planters and obelisk from please.

so happy to see your video today, I looked for it!

Thanks for sharing your thoughts and strategies as you plant.

Just stunning where are the obelisks from

Everything does look beautiful and I love your choice of music! xo

Looks so perfect: I'm jealous.

Love the garden with the music!🎶 🐝

Beautiful, love the symmetry!

Chip your designs are brilliant. Love the rusty obelisks and corrugated pots really lend themselves to a rustic but masculine look. Beautiful. "It rust we must trust," See you and Gipsy next time.

Just gorgeous

Beautiful transformation! Love the obelisks ❤

La feuille de figuier a un parfum extraordinaire🎉. Ses racines aussi… dans le sud de la France on évite de le planter près d’un mur, il déformerait ses fondations. Mais je crois comprendre que dans ce cas présent, il n’est pas destiné à prendre toute son ampleur ? En ce qui concerne la lavande , effectivement elle vieilli mal; mais une bonne taille annuelle,à la fin de la floraison, en arrondi, en évitant lede tailler dans le « bois » de l’année pour qu’elle puisse refleurir, est une bonne technique de durabilité. De plus elle se bouture facilement et cela fait une bonne réserve de remplacement sans surcoût !😊 J’aime beaucoup ce style de jardin que vous avez créé, du charme, facile à entretenir, avec un esprit méditerranéen ❤

So beautiful, what magical artwork, thought l was alone loving leaves, will never let you go chip,❤

Thank you for sharing your beautiful courtyard

Just lovely! I saw a fig tree growing in someone's yard . Now I want one.😊

Just beautiful, you’re a true visionary Chip. 🌳🌳

What a lovely plants 🪴 Like 491 My friend thank you for good sharing

I cannot believe how beautiful that looks! Amazing what you can do with such a small space! ❤

Starting to look fabulous -

I love it! Fig leaves are truly beautiful! 🌱🌱🌱😊

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Chris... that 🎶 🎵 💯🧘🏾‍♀️🌟🌝

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Can you come to our house please ❤I would love that garden❤

I started growing lavender in pots this year and never going back! it's just too wet here for them. All the different textures in your courtyard are inspiring. Makes me want to get more pots

I would love to know where you got those trellises from the thick ones over the pots

Lovely design ideas. Was watching and wondering why you did not put the plants in first. Easier without the obelisks in the way, and it would also weight the containers in position, plus, most importantly, keep any dropped soil off the immaculate pebbles if they went in later, after the obelisks? So therapeutic for you watering all the area at the end, which will keep humidity levels up so the plants do not dry out as quickly. Good job. Wishing you happy gardening.

Meraviglia delle meraviglie è stato veramente rilassante ma anche istruttivo e penso che un fico lo pianteró anch'io. Ma vorrei sapere se il vaso dove ha piantato il fico è di ferro se sì non si scalda troppo col sole ???

Great idea about the root separation. I'll be using that. Thanks for a lovely relaxing vid. Hi from Downunder 😊

Just a bit confused with the planting figs and lavenders like sun but you’ve planted them at the side of ferns and a grass the I think is also shade loving

Looks amazing! Giving me such inspiration. I love gardening. I've just subscribed to your channel. Love it thank you 😊 ❤❤❤

A fig tree???? You have no idea how huge it becomes... poor you.