Revisiting the new garden | What a difference two months makes! 

As a newer gardener, the love of bluestem grass is killing me. You are the 4th influencer that has shown my native grass the love. My cattle and horses eat pastures of the stuff and my husband hays it. I’m gonna go dig this stuff up and send it to you guys for free. Just like milkweed. That stuff covers the ditches next to my pastures. I love it!!!

Fabulous, beautiful garden! What a treat! Thank you so much Erin for sharing your amazing garden! I do but small plant and then watch them grow. It gives me satisfaction to observe them and see them get bigger. I love the pollinators!

Love the grasses and box woods. Please show again as it matures!

I adore your garden style. Thanks for the inspiration. I'm happy to share a similar zone (4b-5 in Minneapolis). I'm eager to see this progress in the coming years.

“They’ll be okay next year” is my mantra lately.

So enjoyed your garden tour. You mentioned adding Japanese Anemone to your space. Watch the variety you get, because some are major spreaders. I have some that I continue to rip out or they take over the space. It even grows through stones!

This garden has grown and filled in beautifully. These plants will just get more fantastic as they get established. Great work! I believe planting smaller plants is always the best with perennial plants, trees, shrubs. They establish quickly as they’ve had less shock of being potted up multiple times or root restriction from growing in too small of a pot.

Erin, I'm always amazed at how fast the smaller plants seem to catch up in size to the larger ones, and sometimes even outperform them. This is a great argument for planting smaller plants! By doing this, anyone can stretch their gardening budget a whole bunch! I loved watching the update on your new garden. Thank you for all the ideas and inspiration! ~Margie

Thanks for the tour and a big thanks for putting the names of the plants on the screen for us! I really need to get some of those geraniums! I love how your gardens are so natural and free, yet intentional. Not that I know anything, but from what I know about Mother Nature, she always wins, so I'm throwing in my two cents to say do whatever you can to work with what that creek wants to do. Water will always take the path of least resistance and it's going to carry a bunch of stuff with it as you already know! We have an area of our property that floods every spring and then is fine the rest of the year... not a creek or a rush of water, but up to a couple feet of standing water. I have hydrangeas, yellow twig dogwood, yellow potentillas, liatris, (false indigo) baptista, catmint, tickseed, nautia (I just love nautia!), butterfly bush and weigalia in that area and it doesn't seem to bother any of them a bit... in case anyone is wondering. Keep "plugging" away, (I know, that was really bad! Lol!) I'm always interested in what you've got up your sleeve next! Can you believe its Fall already?!?! P.S... that wild orchid towards the end reminded me of when I was a kid and picked an endangered Ladyslipper orchid from the woods behind our house to give to my mom... oops. =( I had no idea it was illegal or endangered, I just thought it was pretty and wanted my mom to have it! Mom didn't make me feel *too* bad, but bad enough to never do it again!

I really appreciated this video!! I’m developing some new garden areas on our property, and expanding and replanting some old ones. Finally have the time to work on these areas, but the dollars don’t quite stretch to fit my plans, so I’m buying small plants, 4” and 1 gallon sizes, instead of the 1 gallon - 3 gallon sizes I’d like to buy. Seeing how wonderfully your new garden space has filled out is very encouraging!

Wow! Those grasses at the end, are absolutely gorgeous!

The different grasses and plants will be gorgeous in a year or two, when they fill out. It'll be like a meadow, which I wish I had the size property to do that. It should be low maintenance, too. Lovely...thank you!

I love the way you enjoy the plants at all stages and give them time to develop.

It looks awesome! How much change & such transformation it has gone through in two short months! Beautiful job...thank you for taking us on the journey!

So glad you decided to give us an update. It’s looking great. Great design! Got some idea for my shade garden!

I love your garden tour updates. The phenomenon of “I ran out of plants for that section” is very familiar. So is the “ran out of money” to buy all the ones I want.

That lungwort is 🤩. I hope I can find some in the spring.

The new garden is looking wonderful! I especially like the cimicifuga brunette. I planted two this past spring & the flowers are really pretty. The rabbits will eat my echinacea in the spring/early summer when the plants are still small if I don't protect them. I like to use homemade chicken wire cages. I don't have problems once the plants are at their full height and blooming. (so far.....)

It’s a weed orchid. It’s not native, it’s from Europe and it’s super invasive. First time I saw it, I was super happy and now it pops everywhere in the garden...

Love seeing this. Great examples of “first year sleep, 2nd year creep, 3rd year leap!”. Only you have speedy plants.

Wow! So many exciting things going on in this tour, I'm going to have to watch it several times. I cannot wait to see this garden mature.

Next year during the tour, will you please show the view from the road? I like to see the public as well as the private view. Thank you - It is a really great change.

It's very interesting what you say about the 2 in plugs. I grew my plants from seeds this year, and I put them in as 2 inch plugs. My plants did surprisingly well. I tried it as an experiment. I had seen a few gardeners recommend it. The rationale was that the plant roots acclimated better. I wasn't sure if my experience was a one off; but the fact that you had similar results may mean there some validity to planting them smaller.

Now I’ll hear your voice in my head when I’m shopping plants:) I don’t like the chore of planting huge plants anyway, but now I’ll remember that smaller plants might establish better.

the "fairly pathetic" patch of plants are thrilled to make it into the video!!! they say HAAA

Wow, very impressive looking forward to seeing what the spring brings. Thanks for sharing your garden plantings 👍❤️😊

I love your shade gardens! Something unique at every turn. I have alot of shade and the same old stuff can get boring after awhile 🤣 I've watched it three times already!

I always learn something new watching your videos. You never disappoint. Lovely gardens.

I love your channel and so appreciate the aesthetic you bring to gardening! Right up my alley. My one huge comment is about deer. You’ve mentioned how during your care of area gardens the deer have become an issue. You must know how we have encroached heavily on their turf and they have to go somewhere, have some type of food. While I am a huge Margaret Roach fan, her fence is as much for people as it is deer....any who, planting deer resistant everything is so smart and I appreciate your guidance!

Erin,thankyou for your vids,so informative,,entertaining and practical. Your design s are lovely.Plants are amazing!

Looks wonderful. I can feel your excitement about the space.

Thanks for the awesome tour, everything is looking great! The pronunciation on those plant names and varieties are a mouth full! I tend to just make up my own names when trying to read the plant tags! Great job Erin!

This is the 3rd time I've watched your "natural garden series." I'm working on my own plans for a much smaller plot, and I just got a Piet book and a Roy book. Thanks so much for the wisdom, experience, inspiration, and enthusiasm you show! If the small plot goes well, I'll try a larger meadow next to my wooded area - got to be deer resistant though. Please give us an update!

Wonderful to see all the growth and im with you, grasses are looking incredible! In amongst the more mature hakonechloa could you raise your boxwoods up in containers, like you did elsewhere ( was it the patio garden) ? So strange to see sedums in your creek!

I love this garden so much. Can’t wait to see it grow!

Wow. Looks like everything is so happy. I love the final garden area you showed too. It looks like it’s been there for many years. That grass! I love the thought of those box woods peaking out and the trees are lovely backdrop. I hate to hear about the creek. Hope it’s not too much work but sounds like a bugger. Be safe and thanks for showing us the update! Love it. 👏🏻💕👏🏻

Looks awesome and healthy! Thanks for sharing.

Looking good, wow! Everything has really grown and I love the 2nd garden you showed us. Cannot wait to see the new garden in bloom next spring🍁🍁🍁

The scale of this project is amazing. I always learn so much!

Lovely looking lil garden and I can't wait to see more of it in the future!! 😊 As for the really stunning, yet, indeed, hard to pronounce grass "Schizachyrium" is pronounced skee-tza-kEE-ree-um. This compound noun derives from the (ancient) Greek verb "schizo" (σχίζω/σκίζω - tear apart, split) and the noun "achyro(n)" [άχυρο(n) - chaff]. I hope this helps. Have a wonderful day!! 😊

Love your videos and your gardens look beautiful!🌿

Awesome advice on asking your local greenhouse to sell plugs! I splurged on some Hakonechloa grass this year, (24.99 for a 6” pot) I’d love to be able to buy a whole bunch of tiny ones for a more affordable price.

Everything is looking so good! I'm sorry to hear about your creek problems, sounds like major work is coming. Yikes!

Thank you 😊

Very insparetional... Thank you, Erin...

It looks so good! I cannot believe how fabulous after only a couple of months. Your videos make me want to touch plants, always! 😂👍

So much to talk about with this update! Like seriously I had a ton of comments and OMG moments and I forgot them 🤣 seriously this garden is going to be awesome next year! Thanks for some major inspiration!

Woooow it looks incredible! I can't believe that is one seasons worth of growth! You must be absolutely thrilled, I know I would be!

It is all beautiful! I really like the grass that is covering the box woods!

Thanks for sharing! Man my shade garden needs HELP.....

Oh gosh! I've screen shot so many of the ones that inspire me for my garden! Esp that forest Grass at the ending of video! It's gorgeous!

Love your way of gardening well done♥️♥️

Great tour.. watching from Ireland.. really enjoy your channel..👌

Can't wait to see in 2021!

Wow everything is looking good, and yeah ive found over the years the smaller plants end up doing better and establishing quicker than larger plants. That sedum is probably the typical stonecrop or fall sedum everyone knows and loves, if you leave the seedheads over winter some seeds will grow and fall sedum will literality grow anywhere sun,shade,wet, dry it doesnt care only thing it doesnt like is fertilizer cause then it flops

Fabulous progress considering how tiny the plugs were. That's probably the lovely woodland floor soil at work. I totally love that Little Blue Stem grass. I do remember the flood video. You really worked hard and stuck to the project despite all the setbacks. Now the garden is paying you back :)

Looks great! Thanks for update - very helpful. I also had some of that wild orchid pop up in strange places in my yard. My husband keeps mowing one down 😂. I also get Solomon’s Seal popping up.

Who looks up the plants online, as she's introducing and showing them. And look through the online photo gallery of the plant? I don't look up every one, but I do look up a lot of them. And see what they look like as mature and established plants. This is going to be so very pretty when this garden section matures!! It's pretty now, but can't wait to see it reach fullness and maturity.

So awesome growth...

Thank you for adding common names in your videos!

Super fun to watch the progress of your garden! Thank you

Glad it's working you work so hard have a nice day

I think that sedum in the creek bed is actually a species of stonecrop called Orpine. Thanks for the tour, the gardens look great!!

Thank you so much for the update...love your channel! Take care 😊 Hi from Canada!

Beautiful work, and such a wonderful update. Thank you!

Oh my goodness...Thalictrum...I seen that on an episode of Gardeners World, Love it, ordered it, can't wait to plant it.! How's the espalier coming along.?

Looking great girl very nice :-)

Looks amazing! Congrats! One thing I learned with my echinacea pallida is that it does not like too much water: makes it flop over. Definitely appreciates dryer, poorer soil. :)

I know you've mentioned this before, and I can't recall if you are able to buy wholesale because of your channel; where do you get your plant plugs? Thanks! Oh, and rabbits and squirrels are the bane of my gardening existence (insert roll-eye emoji).

i loved the grasses. This year i am making a grass garden lining my driveway great video with my morning coffee and giving me more ideas for my gardens next year

I'm kind of new to your channel, but loving it. Do you ever do videos of your veggie garden?

Your design is superb! Please give once or more a year update -OK? Have you considered a shade plant with good foliage , Styliforum /wood poppy?

Hi -- Just wondering how you've found the helleborine 2 years later. They appeared several years ago in an urban New England garden I cared for and seemed to be spreading -- not in a good way -- so we we made an effort to remove them. They had never been seen before in that garden so we suspected that they came in with a large mulch/compost delivery. Always an adventure!!! Love your videos!

Very cool

Lobelia, hang in there, I have the cardinal and another bright pink/red and then also found out zone 6, we're 5b in IL and 3 of 5 made it for me this year, will depend on how the winter does, I do love it's dark foliage and spiked flower stems though

The new garden looks great, will you be adding any spring flowering bulbs to it this fall? Have a great week, we should have beautiful weather here in Wisconsin.

I've been clearing volunteer trees, some rather mature, and now have lots of new garden space to dream about this winter. I created a mixed hydrangea hedge (and some other shrubs and perennials) which I adore. I bring out my morning cup and admire them. In the newly unearthed space it's under a very mature maple and the neighbor's silver maple (yuck) shades the area despite it being the west. What is that perennial that grows to about the size of a shrub? It has lime green foliage. I think the name starts with an A. I thought that might work there. Thanks. I just love your garden tours.

I had no idea Rabbits would eat Echinacea! For some reason, I just expected them to be immune from animals eating them... This is really good info for my daughter's garden in a suburb full of bunnies! Thank You everybody for talking about that!!! I wonder if the bunnies like ALL the Echinacea's? Just thinking out loud bcuz I know my daughter really wants some. How special are those wild Orchids!!!!!!!! Very Nice!!! I also hope to see more of those in your garden next season! Just a thought - could it be that when you disturbed the soil in that area, that this was what spurred the Orchids to grow this year? Thanks for sharing the shade garden, everything looks Fab!!! I really enjoyed the video! ♡♡♡

Hi Impatient Gardener. I’m Judy...80 years old. Not to embarrass you, but I wish you were my neighbor. I really like your style.I watch lots of RU-vid gardeners and they’re all wonderful, however you’re such a lovely, soothing, level headed and all around good lady/gardener. You’re so knowledgeable and pleasant. I’m in Upstate South Carolina, 7b. What’s your name and where are you and what zone? Thanks for sharing. Judy

Could you tell us where you are able to purchase plug plants please. Do you have to have a wholesale license or are there places that sell plugs to the public? Just bought a new house and have to start from scratch with the garden. At this point, I have more time (I hope) than money so purchasing plugs sounds very good to me. Thanks in advance

Looks beautiful l love your style planning on planting some dwarf spruce in my front yard I'm having trouble with my boxwood they are turning brown and right my front porch

Love the update looks beautiful 🌹

beautiful grass. interested in putting the Hakonechloa macra in our garden next year

I saw the photo of the grass garden with the boxwood> I don't think the grass is Hakonechloa There are none that stay that small. I believe that it is Carex pen. that was being promoted as a grass alternative

Love your choices and style.Your space is so gorgeous,also your natural dirt is awesome 😎! I gardening 5b and have Indiana clay! It is difficult to amend. You are so wonder of info.advise what to do for clay dirt.

does ostrich fern do well for you? It grows like crazy and multiplies and makes a big beautiful statement in shade or partial shade for me, very deer resistant.

Ok, what fun this is! Please do some research on “Dara” Ornamental carrot and false Queen Ann’s lace. I fell in love with it at Longwood Garden and want everyone to have some!

Questions. I suspected bunnies ate my echinacea. I was so excited too. Bunnies really ate a lot of unexpected (and expected) plants this year in a way they hadn't in the last few. Anyway, the very bottom of the echinaceas are doing fine on a couple; like you can see the bottom leaves minus any stem. I'm thinking I'd better move them. Should I wait till they start to pop up next year or should I go ahead and move them now? I'm a zone 6b St. Louis area midwest.

Loveliest part of your garden. Beautiful grasses! Wouldn't white Digitalis look great scattered in your woodland? (You know, you can trim Alberta spruce into shape if they're a bit wonky.)

Love the tours 👍🏼

How do I find two “ plugs? That would be a great way to add more to my garden👍🏼

love your garden!

Beautiful garden❤️👏

Love the naturalistic design of this garden and the use of grasses. We have a creek running through our property as well, but it runs year-round (with significant spring flooding) and is mostly wooded by locusts at this point. I have dreams of turning the banks into some kind of woodland/bog garden. Someday! What's you favorite resource for design inspiration?

Do you think the sedum is doing so well because of the gravel? They love drainage and rocky soil...well, at least they do here, in Tucson. Sonoran desert gardens love the sedums. Love your videos, Erin. Thank you for posting. 🌵🌵🌵 juli

Where did you get 2 inch plugs? I love those and have only seen them advertised in Britain, or wholesale for growers. I found a small stand of variegated sedum(don't know the variety) in the woods behind my house. I thought it was seeded by the birds from someones garden.

Could you put the boxwoods in a pot to lift up a bit? But you may not want the water up keep.😁

i love creeping jenny, but thot it was for containers. i have a weed yard, need something that will kill off grass and grow close to the ground and wont need mowing. would creeping jenny be good for this? don't need a vine that would trip me.

Yeah this is Jane from memorial Park I'd have 30 gardens in Pennsylvania New Kensington and drop I've been doing it for about 18 years now and up for many years now I've been using egg yolk and water just three egg yolks and a in a medium sized spray bottle and water and shake it up and spray the hostas of course I have to use about four or five bottles of it and but last year I still something couple years ago still something I ate it and I thought I had a groundhog and so I decided somebody had said put garlic and hot sauce in with it so I did the egg shells I just took it all in a bucket and used a paintbrush and floors it around and this year I haven't even had to spray it with egg yolk nothing so it's really worked great so you might want to get stuff a try okay

Erin, do you have to cut the Japanese grasses back by spring. If so, you have a ton and how will you do that? Beautiful