Saving Three Roses & Planting More Boxwoods, + Update on the Back Garden! 🥀🌿😊 // Garden Answer 

While I could never have what Laura and Aaron have as far as gardens, Hartley etc. I could never be jealous or critical. It’s been a lot of hard work to get where they are and well deserved! If some people can’t appreciate that why bother watching? Opinions and conversations are also part of what I like about this. I learn from them as well. It saddens me that although it’s few, some seem to resent what others have and can be down right rude and hurtful. 😢

Even with all the chaos the property is really coming along! I hope Aaron makes a drone video to show the progression from this spring to winter for a "What we planted this year" type video, with the heavy equipment projects included or not, I don't know you film it I'll watch it no matter what. Thanks for all you do, I feel totally blessed feeling like a distant relative sharing your life, knowledge, goodwill and generosity with me. ❤❤❤from the mitten

Aaron: “inevitably we will want power over here for something” Read as: Wait until you see the Christmas light display I can come up with over here now!

Through the years of gardening, I have learned to make the garden into my space, and not live with someone else’s. In the years to come you will be happy that you made the changes now, while your able to!

Laura I have learned something from you each time I watch! Today’s example was transplanting those roses without very much of a root system. I would’ve never thought to resoak them! I’ll be interested to see how well they do for you. It’s a pleasure to watch your garden evolve! This channel is such a bright spot on RU-vid. I appreciate you so much!! 💐

Congrats on "saving" the 3 roses! I hope they make. What a fun, interesting video, showing your progress in real time! I cannot help but admire Laura's and Aaron's HARD work. Your beautiful creation is built with sweat, effort and creativity.

When you have a 20 minute wait for something in the garden to be ready: Me: I’ll just sit and wait and have a cup of coffee Laura: I’ll just plant these 12 boxwoods 🤣🤣🤣

Laura in her checkboard Vans doing a day's worth of gardening over a lunch break! What a badass!

Hello to the Dynamic Duo! 😂 It is fun watching you two power through the boxwood planting! The rest of us would look at that job as MASSIVE but with the mammoth auger and the teamwork…! You two always inspire us! Thanks and have a wonderful week!

The area where you dug the roses looks so open and different now. It's going to flow with the rest of the property. Now that the boxwoods are gone, it's much less heavy. The openness is LIBERATING. Aaron took one for the team. He's such a sweetie. Just love him. You too Laura, but you know, he's Aaron. ☺ The music while planting the roses was perfect. Just an awesome channel.

I love seeing the driveway loop take shape and frame the Hartley!

I had a small garden at my home in Tulsa, OK 15 years ago and when I am looking at your channel it reminds me of my garden, but mine was a lot smaller. I do love that you and Aaron are such a good team. I worked in my garden alone and I had a small pond with a waterfall. My neighbor would say it was unnatural for a woman to drain the pond and clean it out after winter. I just remember it brought me such joy to clean out the pond. Getting the water clear with the correct ph level after so many leaves fell. Also working on my roses was just pure joy. I really enjoy your channel. That Auger looks awesome.

Hi Laura and Aaron! The North side is really coming along. I'm so glad the triangle garden is gone. It really was an eyesore. I'm glad you were able to save the roses. I'm looking forward to seeing the new trees planted back there. It's nice seeing Aaron so happy about the clearing of all of the boxwoods. Thank you so much for sharing!

Looks like it's time for that scarecrow in the winter wheat bed. Might be a fun project with Benjamin.

I love seeing all of the progress and can’t wait to see what new projects are coming!! DO NOT WASTE TIME reading the obviously jealous and spiteful comments. Some people are so wrapped up in themselves and their opinions they don’t take time to taste their words before writing them.

I would love to see your mother’s reaction. I’d probably cry. I broke my ankle last fall and had to have surgery. It took a long time before I was able to get much of anything done. Laura is such a gracious, thoughtful and loving daughter and I know her mother must be so thankful and delighted. Hope she got to graduate from the boot.

Love seeing you and Aaron working and designing together! Love the vision for the back property can’t wait to see all the progress. It seems you guys have unlimited projects for us to see! i worked in a strawberry field one summer and warm strawberries are the BEST! ❤❤❤❤

Glad you were able to save your roses, hope they make.

Glad you were able to save the roses! They look really nice in their new home. Boxwoods look good as well, nice and tidy. Doesn't it just give your mind peace in the area they are clearing? The yuk you weren't happy with is gone and now it is going to be Laura and Aaron designed! Exciting!

Orchids that bloom for the first time do the same thing as what you described your roses did. The second bloom cycle on an orchid is when you really see the true bloom color and also the fragrance ... if it happens to be fragrant. I am loving the cleared out back space. Aaron just oozes with satisfaction. Especially when I mentioned another opportunity to trench 😅

Laura, when I moved my (old) roses last year, I had the same issue, not able to save enough root ball. I cut the leaf canopy back quite hard (about half of the canopy) - and they've done really well this year. I'm in Australia, and in a similar dry climate (although not as cold a Winter as you get) and we are now in Spring and the roses have put on loads of new growth since the move.

Way to go Aaron taking one for the team! I bet he felt no pain, knowing he was getting his way with the overall vision.

It’s all coming together. I can tell on your face that you are very pleased with the whole process so far. I want to see your face once it’s all complete. You glow Laura. Not sure if you noticed it when editing your videos. You have a glow on your face a sheer pleasure. Hey many blessings to you all and thanks again for sharing your journey with us all

I loved listening to Aaron talking about the potential of the space made you imagine the future. What a great team, we are so lucky. Truely love you both and the inspiration you provide for “making a space you love”. XOXO much love from Va 💙

So good to see all the fun things happening in the back Garden! My question is concerning the far north west corner by the barn. Are you going to plant some of those large evergreens there to hide the view of your neighbors RV cover? Oh and at the end of the video when you were driving around looking at things, I just wanted you to keep driving and take us on a little drive all over the property and look at things. That would be a fun video.

What a great space revamp!!! A big 👍🏻to putting a pond in this area!! 💕

Put a smaller 'foot traffic only' bridge OVER the pond and connect mulched path into the larger grass pathway. Plant heavily around the entrance and exit of the 'foot traffic only' path to promote the secret garden theme. Thus making the small bridge a secret destination point to stand and watch all the wildlife.

Good morning, Laura, from Windermere, Florida zone 9b USA 🇺🇸 The transplant liquid is like magic, even in our Florida summers. And I love watching your transformation. Those Roses are going to be magnificent next summer. Happy Gardening Everyone 👩‍🌾 👍 💓

I have a friend who built a pool that looks like a pond. It’s beautiful and your kids will love it! I know your parents have a pool but having your own is a lot more accessible daily!

“I don’t know what I think. I don’t know where the electrical is” 😂. I cracked up!

Love what you do. Please rethink the pond. Unless the kids have taken swimming lessons. Thank you for sharing your gift and time with us. ❤

Oh my gosh, guys! A wooden bridge, with a little wooden railing on each side...the children will LOVE it ! At least do it for them. The memories of play running through the garden paths and up the bridge will be with them forever. We created all kinds of fun exciting things for our son and daughter and friends as best as budget would allow, and to hear them today, in their 30's chat, laugh and so excited to relive all the fun is just priceless to us. No regrets!

You'd almost never know there were pots underneath all that sweet potato vine!! Love it.

Now that you have all of this space that you've opened up around the Hartley, in that corner garden, in the rear garden and the open spaces in the South garden, maybe we'll get an opportunity to see some Wiegelas planted????🤞🤞🤞🤞

Thank you dearly for highlighting the damages & issues with the boxwoods that we're removing. Lost sleep of the image of the tractor mowing that one batch down. 😂 Completely get it & am okay with it now. 😂👍 Feel the same about change in the garden, but do almost always feel better once things are fully gutted & more possibilities emerge. Thank you dearly for what you do. Your vids help me DAILY in many ways. Bless you & your beautiful fam! Hope Mom's healing well! Love seeing her in vids. 💜

Jack Barnwell did an update on the property he toured with Laura this summer.

I believe you can totally make a bridge work. Find a way, I think it'll be so pretty 😍

Am I the only one who leaned in when Laura said the honeysuckle smelled so good….? Lol😂❤

Regarding the roses, with so little root system to support a rather large canopy, wouldn’t it be a good idea to cut the canopy way back in order for the plant to concentrate on root growth only and not trying to support top growth? Winter is coming anyway and the top isn’t going to be pretty until next Spring.

14:42 That hole digging timelapse was really satisfying to watch 😊

I can’t wait to see what you do with the north garden. Every garden you have made “your own” is exquisite. Thank you for sharing and inspiring me to do the same in my garden. ❤

We had a Joseph's Coat climbing rose planted on the arbor to the entrance to our home and when our property burned in the wildfire in 2018 of course that rose burned too. However, a year later that rose came back with a little fresh green so we dug it up to move it to the new location of our house on that same property and barely got any rootball with it. That thing was gnarly. The top was scarred and burnt but I planted it anyway. From the graft up was gone so it came back from the root stock and is no longer the Joseph's Coat. That is one tough plant. It's just a pinkish red climbing rose but it is MASSIVE! It is one of the very few things left to me after the fire that took out everything we owned and built for over twenty years on ten acres and that rose is precious to me. I do cherish it and am so grateful to have it.

Here in East Texas we already have freezing to below freezing temps (32° to maybe below) expected tonight (Tuesday) into Wednesday morning. It is too early for us to have a freeze 😪. I hate cold weather. Here it gets cold and wet which is miserable.

Aaron tearing up more for conduit! Laura, "ugh, when do I get to have order back?" 🤣 I think lots of wives can relate!

You two are quite the force of nature ❣️

Question for Aaron: can he explain needing a bridge wide enough and low enough to accommodate the lawn mower? Wouldn't he be able to access both ends of the grass walking path without needing to cross the bridge? He could mow as close to the bridge as possible on each side and then use the trimmer to clean up the rest. I think a bridge over the pond would be so charming. I'm totally envisioning a smaller version of the gardens and bridge in Claude Monet's paintings with the weeping willow in the background and maybe some water lilies dotted across the pond. I know whatever you decide to do will end up looking beautiful, whether there is a bridge or not!

I would trim those roses harder, that way you will provide them more chance to live. You have cut the roots pretty hard, so it can't provide the canopy as it used to do.

I love all the ideas and information on planting ... for me the struggle is keeping them thriving after the planting. We live in a similar high desert situation. Would be SUPER interested in watering systems, times, etc. or whatever follow up care plants need in order to get their legs under them and thrive. I've lost sooooo many bushes and trees and can't figure out what to do. Thanks for your thoughts.

Good morning all have a safe and blessed day

Aaron is soooooo happy to have a clean slate to work with..... Everything is looking awesome! New dreams and plans.

Great progress...looking superb 👏 👌 👍 🙌 😀

I appreciate seeing Laura and Aaron develop their property. They share their thoughts, disappointments, thrills. Truly learn and am happy for them. It is alot to keep going.

My favorite view, the double doors, pillars, & circle planting from the driveway, looking through the fence. Glorious!!😊

Hi Laura! Love your channel, I really appreciate your joyful gardening!! When I transplant anything, I reduce the foliage on the plant by 1/2 to 2/3. It reduces the stress on the newly transplanted plant and gives it a better start! Happy gardening sweet friend!!😊

Laura talking about adding a bridge....... literally crickets chirping in the background! Lol🤣😂🤣

Thank you Laura and Aaron for sharing you life, family and garden projects. You are my go to in the morning and inspiration for pushing forward with my landscape projects!

Almost November, and still strawberries?!? I’m sold! Strawberries on the top of my spring shopping list.

Yay!! To saving the roses 🌹🌹🌹 and the more boxwoods the merrier I say. I completely get the need to reimagine a previously owned space. I’m currently working on a rose garden that was planted in 1969 and hasn’t been really taken care of in the last 15-20 years. Your process sfor reimagining your space is very similar to mine. I too see your Hartley as an extension of your home and not for the large and particularly messy, large jobs of the garden but the prettier more scaled down and “cleaner” ones. I really appreciate you pointing out things that are thriving in your garden (superbena as a landscape plant) and those that aren’t. I make notes for myself on my next years plantings and will definitely try superbena in the landscape rather than just pots & baskets. Have a wonderful day ☀️ from Sidney BC 🇨🇦 zone8b

Maybe you should create a scarecrow for the wheat patch, to try and keep the birds away…you did say you saved a plaid shirt for such a thing…I think your kids would love to be involved in that project, and it would look so cute! ❤️🧑‍🌾👔🌾

Fun to see! I would love to see another garden tour. I realize not everything is looking like you want it to yet, but it would be fun to see a full garden tour chaos and all!

I'm glad you saved those roses. I think they will look lovely in the spot you chose.

I so wish there was a tour once a month!

Can’t wait to see how the roses do. I think they’ll be fine. The area the roses came from will be a fun new site!

You should do a collaboration with aquascape ecosystem ponds! They have great ponds and a great RU-vid channel!

I bought a house in Virginia that had an established yard with many different plants. On one side of the house was a rose bush. For several years it did nothing in the way of blooming. So I decided that I would give it one more chance to bloom. I stood over the bush and told it that I was going to dig it up and throw it away if it did not bloom for me in the spring. Well, come spring it bloomed a huge pale pink rose that was absolutely gorgeous and I hope it’s still blooming today, because I sold the house and moved back to Texas.

10/17/2022 in northern Indiana and southern Michigan we had our first snow. It is early morning of the 18th and snow is still on the ground, so winter has arrived, it was kind of a surprise, to us!!! I have a lot of cleanup to do. Good luck Laura, winter is soon going to be here!

Great video! You mentioned strategically pruning to allow light and air to penetrate down into a hedge. How do you do that without wrecking the structure and shape of the hedge? I’ve never had boxwoods so I’m inexperienced with maintaining them. Have a great day everyone!!

Laura for SURE your property needs a pond. I have one and it gives me so much enjoyment. Just sitting next to it and hearing and watching the water stream from the waterfall. That could be your new oasis!!

Yes ... I did enjoy it .... Thanks for sharing ... !!!

That would absolutely be the perfect place for the pond! And a bridge?? It will be a beautiful wonderland! Imagine seeing that from the Hartley. The path walkways are great in the south garden, but will you be making the new grass path varying widths to make it more natural and meandering-like? Having the view limited from the Hartley by plantings may cause it to revert to the being used less and thought of mode it was in before. Love that you're clearing everything for a blank canvas to work on. Such exciting changes. Thanks for sharing.

I always appreciate saving plants to reuse in another place! 🙂

In response to Laura’s statement “I hope you enjoyed it”, I wonder how many people either say or think “of, course, I did.”

Seriously, I don't see how you keep it all straight in your head! 😅 Love watching the progress. Everything will be so beautiful...of course!

I think it’s pretty cool having you house as your employer. Ever considered giving you property a name?

If you have some reflective ribbon, like metallic streamers, tied up near the row of wheat, it might help keep some of the birds away until germination. Maybe tie some to a few stakes in the row. You have enough wind that the movement will help scare them off.

Good Morning from Gaylord, MI. It's cold here 32. It's snowing as we speak. The power went out at 6:00 a.m. and it's 7:30 a.m. now. We're ok. On generator. Had/having a beautiful fall. Oh the colors were gorgeous. Past peak now, but still pretty. Enjoy your day. xo

What most shows me the difference between my zone 6 in KY to your zone 6 is the simple fact you have pots, buckets, and other bowl-ish shaped items face up outdoors! 😆 As always, love all the progress ♥

The replay of the fountain falling, omgosh! Good reminder though. LOL!

Hey Laura, how's it going? Glad you were able to save the roses, they are beautiful. Were you able to save the coral berry as well? I know how much you love that plant also.

BOXWOODS perked me up this morning! I’m trying to plant more of those at my home and learning a lot through you. Thank you for sharing your ups and downs with this plant.🌳💜

I love the idea of a pond. I think even a flat wood bridge over would be fun. Thank you for the little drive around the property at the end. It is always nice to see how things are doing.

Big difference, love how open it looks without the fence and plants. Plus, you can see all the new trees along the back edge. A pond would look awesome and if it is big enough you can add a bridge across one end. Have you thought of making part of the area a playground for the kids. Swingset, seesaw, monkey bars. Would be a good area for one now that it is open so you can see the kids from most areas of your backyard while your working.

So excited for next spring ! All the gardens are looking so pretty !🌷

I rescued a yellow rose this spring that had barely any roots. I was skeptical and was reminded that roses are tough shrubs. It bloomed profusely throughout the season with yellow flowers! Good luck!

I've heard that you always cut back top of plant when roots are cut during transplant.

Hi Laura my daughter (4) and I watch your videos everyday after she's finished school ( we`re from the UK). We love watching your videos and are creating our own cottage style back garden as well as growing veggies and fruit. We are planning on adding some roses in our garden which rose would you go for for a cottage style garden? Keep up the fab work and all the best 💗

Wow, I'm looking forward to what you do with the now barren space. I'm sure it will be amazing. I also took your advice and cut down a plant . It had blight and it was not the tomato variety I though it was. So hoping my other tomato plant pulls through. I have treated it. But its still showing signs of blight. Sadly haven't had success with my tomato plants the last few years. There is flowers on my tomato plant. So hopefully all goes well.

Hahaha 😆. I can relate! We have boxwood that goes from around the front porch to the side porch. But like yours, they only have just a smidge of green leaves at the very tips. The rest is completely dead. From the sides, the dead is very apparent. Our "fall/winter" project is to remove them. Thinking we just might do 4-5 short pillars with urns. Perhaps even fit in a medium size statue. Just need something different. That will be easy enough to change down the road if we change our minds.

Yay - 3 David Austin’s reclaimed! Not sure about other viewers, but I’d like one of Aaron’s famous drone shots to put things in perspective. 😁

Picking fresh strawberries in October. Amazing!

I always give my new roses three years, before I give up on them. The first few years they can be small, not as well coloured or continually ball, but give them time to settle in and show you what they are capable of.

Those roses are blessed! I love to see all the jobs you guys can get done. I'm all excited, if I can get some large pots moved to a different location! I'm getting tired just watching y'all. Yes I think the yellow roses will look great in the south garden! Calendula would also look great there.

LOVE Super Thrive! Had no idea it came in such a large size! Discovered 35 years ago when a friend dug up all her roses in her Florida garden in July and drove with them in buckets of water and super thrive all the way to Seattle. I was very skeptical. They all thrived and flourished!

We have a small pond on our property, would enjoy seeing your journey. We had a landscaping school use our yard to teach their students to create a pond so we saved on labor only paid for materials needed.

👏👏👏👏 great to see the progress. So much change. Can't wait to see it. 😁🌷🌷😁😁

Love the view at the end of the video looking from the fence across the beautiful garden to the house it looks beautiful

Great video. Button up those little projects and lucky you remember them. Wow. Looks fantastic. So much potential. Thank you so very much for sharing this with us.🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦

👋🌞Good Tuesday morning, Laura! 👋Hi Russell! 🐈 Or were you Cheddar? 🐈🤔 I couldn't tell from angle you were walking...🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️ 🙋🏼‍♀️ I'm in for a pond feature, too, in that area!!! I KNOW that whatever you do there, it is going to be gLauraFied!!!! You and your magical touch. 🪄🪄🪄 👋Hi Aaron! What a sweet hubby you are to come get that last rose bush out. Poor Laura was struggling with that one. 😢 Hopefully, your boo boo doesn't cause you a whole lot of pain. That is a nasty place for a blister, as that part of the hand moves a LOT. 👋Hi Russell!🐈 How long did that take you 2, from start to finish, to plant those boxwoods? That was fun 🎉🎊🎉🎊 🎵🎶🎶🎵 planting music! Thank you Aaron/Ken🤗🤗 YUMMMMMM, 🍓🍓🍓🍓🍓🍓 I am soooo jealous of your strawberries, we cannot grow them here in AZ desert, during the summer; waaaaaay too hot. I am "rooting" 😉 for the 3 transplanted rose bushes!!!! I am a HUGE fan of Super Thrive! I use it on all of my house plants. Makes all of the difference. What a great, productive video today!!! Thank you for taking us along for everything!!! Have a Blessed and Beautiful day/night 🌞/🌜✨️⭐️🌟⭐️✨️ 🌐 everyone! Kimberley F in Avondale, Arizona USA 🇺🇸 (Zone 9b) 🌞🌵💞

You could make a small concrete, brick, gravel, or flagstone landing for the bridge over the pond to make it work with the grass and mowing that Aaron was mentioning. It might be kind of nice to do that anyway so you could flank the bridge with benches or pots 😊

We dug up KO Roses and not all came up easily to transplant. One barely had roots. Planted them and in 2 years they were huge. Tough plants. I did cut the foliage down upon transplanting so the energy goes to the roots.