Pruning Tree Hydrangeas & Removing Stakes from Trees By the Pond! 🥰✂️🌿 // Garden Answer 

Kitties and kids and flowers??!! What else could we ask for??!!! ❤️💫❤️. Just adding…..I’ve been dealing with grief…depression and anxiety after losing my granddaughter and then my best friend puppy…..watching you every morning has been such a tremendous help for the last few years. I don’t know if you will get to read this but you have my heartfelt thanks for helping me get through this terribly hard time. It’s become a morning ritual for me to watch your videos. I can’t begin to tell you all how much it helps. ❤️💫🐶💫❤️. Thank you all from the bottom of my heart.

Benjamin’s “I’m watching you” cracked all of us up!! 😂

Yesterday while watching Laura and her Mum making cocktails I said to my SO "Ooo the garden lady I watch is making cocktails today" His reply "Not much use for you is it" (I don't drink) I had to point out "I don't garden either, but I watch her every day and miss her when she is gone".

Sheriff Benjamin and Deputy Samantha are a hoot 😂😂😂. Thank you also for the pruning lesson. So helpful!!!

Laura, Please let us know if you need help with bail! We've got your back. 😂

I understand pruning so much better when you show these before and after jobs. Now, I need to show these videos to the deer who try to prune all year long. 😂

My hellebores bloomed for the first time in 3 years! I was giving it one more spring and if it didn’t bloom I was going to pull it. Apparently, it heard! Have a great day everyone! Donna

😂Benjamin slays me. His gestures,"I'm watching you," so very funny. What imaginations! Love you all for the joy you bring us.

This was the best. I busted out laughing when Benjamin gave you the 'I'm watching you' gesture when he went to help Samantha. These are days that make life such a joy. Thank you Laura for sharing your joy with us everyday. I have been watching you for the last 4 or 5 years and I have learned so much and been inspired to create my own joyful place in my backyard. 🥰

It was nice to see Douglas wanting a friendly morning pet.

I could hear the trees go "Ahhhhh" when you cut them lose, just like my feet do when I take my shoes off. The kids are adorable as always. Thanks for the update on Hydrangea trimming. I can see I really need to up my game and do that next week.

Your kids are so funny. Benjamin made me chuckle… “I’m watching you “

That says a lot about your parenting- The kids were on the same team ❤ both cops Benjamin cracks me up and that’s the cutest little ticket writer I’ve ever seen I wish my area had that kind of emergence- it’s still winter here

I am really loving these garden clean up videos. Please don’t stop bringing us along with you. It’s very satisfying and informative. Thank you 😊♥️ & Benjamin 😎 and the “I’m watching you” was sooo funny! I adore those kiddos!

Your kids crack me up!! Benjamin giving you the “I’m watching you” was hilarious and Samantha threatening you with jail made me laugh out loud. I love your videos and how you share family life. Keep up the great work raising fantastic kiddos and letting them use their imagination freely. ❤️❤️❤️

Your kids playing outside, creating games and fun the way kids should grow up 🌻

your farm is just breathtaking laura ! all you and Aaron hardworking, dedication, and love for what you are creating is just shining through!!!!

During my walk around my sub, I was admiring the early stages of a small boxwood hedge across their front porch. Turned out she became a Master Gardener after retiring and is a fellow GA fan! Then she showed me her pink hellebors with fat pink buds! What a thrill!. Mine is yellow and lagging behind just 3 blocks away! Nice to have a Laura fan to reach out to. We shared a laugh about the lemon n cocktails! What a lovely chat!

I can watch pruning videos FOREVER! It is sooooo relaxing

Can’t wait to watch you prune those elderberries!!! Thanks for taking us along…❤

Your flowers are the reward for cleaning up. The promise of spring

One more tip on hydrangeas... the new buds alternate opposing sides so with selective pruning one can really shape and form control the emerging growth. 😊💙☺️

I love your spring cleaning!😊 Seeing the little white flowers coming up just brings a smile to my face.😊 Laura, I think something to eat for Samantha will take care of your ticket.😂😊

Love how the cats follow you everywhere! You are such a good teacher!

The troops have spoken. Can you pay your fines with smooches and cookies? I can't wait to see a Spring garden tour. Thank you for another educational video.

Enjoy how the kids play together. Those flowers coming up are so beautiful.

Hi Laura! Love seeing the kiddos playing outside and using their imaginations. Thank you so much for sharing!

Good morning all have a safe and blessed day ❤️

Good morning Laura and family, 🐈‍⬛🐈. Okay police Officers on Patrol, a ticket for the day and watching you how sweet can they be, I was so lol, it was like a theater play super cute. You do such a great job pruning on your hydrangeas. Going to try grown a couple of them this year, thank you for sharing as always. Have an awesome rest of the day. 🙂👋

As I sit here watching the much needed snow fall, there is something very therapeutic about hearing Laura’s pruners clipping away. ❄️🇨🇦

I know it’s strange but hearing your pruners cutting the hydrangeas sounded lovely. Made me go out and start on mine. Sound of spring

Good Morning! 🌞 Love Benjamin's "I'm watching" you move! Officer Samantha is cute! My Snowdrops are up & blooming too! That is a sure sign that Spring is on its way! I checked my Hydrangeas & I am waiting to prune. I want to see bigger buds forms before I prune! 😃🥰✂️💚

Laura, I'm happy you taught pruning hydrangeas. I have just one, but now i have the confidence to prune it. You, kids and cats are very heart warming. Thank you for sharing.

Thank you for showing your children they are so cute and funny!! ❤️

Such wonderful imaginations with the kids!!❤❤❤❤ They bring such smiles!! Everything looks so nice, a wonderful sneak peek at spring.

The kids are such fun!! What great personalities. Would be fun to see you use a bunch of those dried hydrangeas in a wreath or arrangement. 😊

It’s so good to see kids playing outside and using their imagination, good fresh country air is the best. As a kid I always wanted to play outside.

Omg girl nobody on this app works harder than you! Videos every day! Hope you have a great successful season. 🌱🌱🌱

Their imaginations and how they play together is wonderful. ❤ Douglas was telling you he's beautiful too. 🌟

When Benjamin did the “lve got my eyes on you” gesture I almost spit out my coffee😂

Thank you Laura for the hydrangea pruning lesson. It was very informative. Love your kiddos. They are so cute and funny! They cracked me up. You gotta watch out Laura , Samantha is going to put you in jail if you don't pay your ticket!😂 Too funny. Love those two sweet kiddos!

I bought 4 hellebore plants last year and they look so beautiful right now! Thank you Laura. Garden Answer is the first channel I started watching about 4 years ago and I appreciate your videos and your consistency❤

Benjamin and Samantha - I'm dying!!!

Wow! For winter their pond really is full of algae! *_THEIR POND DEFINITELY NEEDS SOME SHADE!!!!_* When you think about how algae grows, it takes plenty of sunlight for algae to bloom in nature like that. I didn't have any shade trees around my aquascape pond when I first had it put in (I live in Florida btw) and I had algae like crazy because 100% of the pond was exposed to sunlight. I bought some of those triangle sun shades to cover 80% of the pond and planted some trees I knew would take a few years to mature, and within a couple of weeks that algae was dying and once I got in it to clean the pond, I never had another problem with algae.

As always great video, always learning something new about something. Benjamin and Samantha Grace are so cute and sweet. Samantha saying your going to jail was hilarious.

Great video! Love seeing your children and the cats too!!

It's like they're waving to all their tree friends saying "we're free " 😊!!!!!

Hello from the UK. Thank you so much for showing us how to prune Hydrangea . My daughter and I were just talking about how to prune our Hydrangea. So thus was so interesting. I recorded it on my phone and sent it to my daughter. I love and appreciate all the work you both put into making and sharing these informative ,beautiful, and fun filled recordings . God bless from Toni .

This show is the best

I always enjoy watching you explain how to prune. I am never sure if I’am doing it right so your videos are very helpful. I love seeing the children at play, so cute! Thank you for sharing ❤️

"What a cluster over here!" Made me laugh! Sounds like something I'd say about my shed.

So great to see the hydrangea pruning the last view videos. I have two that bloom on old wood and I’m always afraid to prune them.

Benjamin has such a wonderful imagination and Samantha is willing to go along with his idea of playing cops and doing it so very well. Your children are such a delight to watch and I love your interactions with them. You are always so encouraging. Thank you again for a wonderful video and I did learn about trimming panicle hydrangeas so I'll be able to to care for the hydrangea I planted at my church last spring. I still have the ticket from the nursery where I purchased it so I will refer to it for the type of hydrangea to make sure that it is a panicle.

Always love seeing the kids.

Benjamin is SUCH a first born kid. I identify with him when he's so responsible

The big tree nursery in our area will come and plant the trees for you. We appreciate thisas we are seniors. They always stake the trees with strips of burlap to tie to the stakes. I asked when we should take the stakes off, they advised when the burlap disintegrates, then you know it’s time. This usually takes a year to 18 months.

Benjamin and Samantha Grace! What a hoot!

The kids are so fun!! And Yes very helpful on pruning the hydrangea. I have some I need to REALLY prune. Now I'm not scared!!! Thanks❤

So many glower bed clean up videos! I love them. It reminds me of what needs taken care of in my own garden and gives me indpiration to get out there and take care of business. Doing it a bit at a time is key I think. It keeps me from feeling overwhelmed. Even if you just tackle a couple of shrubs and ten feet of ground a day you are still getting the job done. It is satisfying. I am a zone 7 and just tackled a shrubby 9’ crepe myrtle. It made me feel so accomplished!😂

Very informative ty so much, I loved the drama of Benjamin and Samantha giving you the ticket, their imagination in creative play is fun to see. Ty

Good evening everyone!!

I love your videos! I enjoy them every morning with my hot morning coffee(:

Samantha Grace said TO JAIL IMMEDIATELY and Benjamin was like yeah what she said 😂 😂❤

Could the children get any cuter! I simply am loving it when they appear.

Your pruning videos are so helpful. Will you be pruning the bush that likes to attack Aaron? 🤣

“I have to buy you money?” 😂❤

Oh my gosh, your kids are so fun. I would keep my ticket from Samantha forever. And Benjamin's eyes on you are so funny. With that kind of wind, I would be up at night also. But I would be afraid of tornadoes here in Ohio.

Lots of great info on those Hydrangeas. I love seeing the kids playing outside.

I don't know if you usually do this to your hellebores, but as mine start to bloom (they are in full bloom now), I cut back all the surrounding foliage so you can see the beautiful flowers. You don't have to "hunt" for them that way, and as you know, it takes little time for the spring foliage to come up.

Great video. I just love watching you work in the garden and learning about the pruning process is a bonus. Have a wonderful and blessed day.

Oh my goodness the fish have really grown😳🥰

Another great productive video. Yes! Very helpful to me for learning how to prune. I loved seeing Douglas!

Great tidy video today. Lots of great advice on hydrangeas.

snowdrops are up here, too but this is Wisconsin, so I expect them to get covered up again. One of our biggest snowfalls was winter storm Evelyn on April 14th for 2 days of non-stop snow. Happy Spring y'all.

Any chance of spending time at the pond area is great to me. I live what you’ve done there and love seeing how it’s progressing.

Love that cute , fluffy tale floating around 😂🥰🥰🥰

Thanks for sharing , I also enjoyed your video yesterday Wednesday with your mom creating different drinks, nice.

Good morning from Delaware Garden Answer friends.

Good Morning From Texas , thanks for the info. I needed that lead. ❤

Lol. I hope seeing flowers was worth getting a ticket and going to jail 😂😂😂❤❤❤

oh my word, your kiddos crack me up!

Thanks Laura! As ever you are my personal reminder of what I need to do today! You really have made my garden a happier place!

The "officers" giving you a ticket made me laugh out loud. Thanks for being a bright spot in the day!

Thanks for the inspiration. Today and tomorrow will be around 50 degrees by me. I am going to get out and walk around to see what is going on with my plants. Of course I will bring my trimmers and pop up bag. Early spring, indeed! ❤❤❤

I am so grateful for all of the pruning and clean up videos you are doing!! My hydrangea standard is going to be getting a slightly heavy pruning shortly, as well as my red twig dogwood, and I can do it confidently because Laura taught me how!!!

Great job of pruning. Clean up always feels good. Thank you so very much for sharing this with us.🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦

I was so hoping you were going to tackle those lavender plants when you were working there! I'm needing to work on mine and don't know how low to trim them. Hopefully you'll demonstrate when you do get to them.

Loved watching the hydrangea prune.i have yet to be courageous enough to plant hydrangeas. You make it look so easy. Maybe this year I’ll give limelights a try.

Love the kids and thanks for the tips.

Good evening everyone ❤❤❤

Good morning!🌻🐝

The kids are so hilarious and wonderful 😅❤

Omg the little eye move Benjamin did. We did that with my baby sister ❤

In the UK we Find that snowfalls establish very much better, and there is a much greater success rate, if planted 'in the green'. So I never plant bulbs in the Autumn, always buy 'in the green' in early February and plant immediately. It's also so satisfying to plant something at a time year when there is little else to do but clear up.

Afternoon Everyone 🥰

I have some of these plants in my yard. Now that I know how to prune them I'll be doing so when the snow melts.❤

Good morning, Laura☕️ Always informative and enjoyable. Especially with Benjamin “watching you”! He’s a character for sure. Have a Blessed Day 😊🐈🐈

I learn something new every time you prune. Remind me, when pruning shrubs in late winter are there temperature parameters that should be considered? I live in 🇨🇦 zone 4a. PS those police officers are the sweetest, even when officer Samantha gives you a ticket, and officer Benjamin when he’s ‘keeping an eye on you’. 😍

Absolutely amazing🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹

Oh the kids …… so cute, entertaining too.