People are always asking me when my garden is going to be done. Never. Some projects will be completed but there is no actual done with the garden. You’re doing a lovely job with your garden. I added a special patio for yoga and meditation. Will feel completely walled by greenery in a few more years.
That sounds amazing and I totally agree!! I said to my 14 yr old “wait till you see the garden this year” She said you say that every year & I told her that’s because it’s never done 😂
It’s amazing how much you have accomplished in truly a short time. I’ve been working on my garden for over 20 years…still learning, still moving plants around. As our friend Monty Don would say, a garden is not a place, it’s a journey. Just gotta love him 😁. Blessings in the New Year!
This year I am focusing on a healing garden with herbs, plants, and statues that represent positive healing. I am thinking of lights entwined with lavender, rosemary and peace flags. 💗
Thank you for this video. I’m sitting here in Ohio, USA, watching it snow. I’m sooo ready for Spring and this video was a breath of fresh air. It boosted my mood.
Hello again. I God a new phone quite a while back and lost touch with my old data. So happy Ai found your channel again. I hope youvall are safe and well. God bless you all.from Bakersfield California USA
We moved house last July and now have a pretty large garden for which I have lots of plans - first time greenhouse owner and it's full to capacity already. Thanks for the inspiration - cottage garden is exactly what I'm looking for.
This past year I have learned how much working in the garden feeds my soul. There is something about it that I can’t quite but into words but I do know that it is something I need to do. It just brings me such joy! Thanks for sharing your journey it’s always so much fun watching how your garden has evolved over time.
Wow! After watching your videos since just before COVID, you've made an amazing transformation in your garden Catherine! Especially this past year, it seems, because everything you had started in previous years seemed to come into it's own, and then the raised beds added so much more definition and interest. Your flowers are gorgeous, the way you've embellished your cement walls with the mirrors and faux brickwork....it's all a visual feast for the eyes. You've given us hours of happiness watching you garden in your lush, green garden in Ireland while we're still bogged down in snow here in Canada most winters. I'm so happy I found your channel! Best wishes for the coming gardening year.
Ive never been so intrigued in someones journey as i have yours, ive never planted anything before but im going to give it a go for this summer as have moved into a new home and would like to make it more homey and pretty for my family, this video helped ALOT xo
This is beautiful. Dorset girl here. Sounds like we have the same climate... a mild dusting of snow in the winter! Like you, I feel down in the winter so I love your forward planning. So much hard work. Looks so lovely. You reap what you sow!
The last two nights I’ve fallen asleep thinking about what all I want to plant and where. For some reason your videos haven’t been popping up like they used to, but as soon as I saw this one today I immediately clicked to watch. I always love your content, especially the garden ones. I can’t wait to see what all you plant this year!
Lots of ideas , lot of hard work You’re doing a lovely job with your garden. t’s amazing how much you have accomplished in a short span. Thank you for sharing .Happy gardening.
Soon the brave snowdrops will appear, peeping through the cold brown earth. So much more than a small, white bell. Courage, purity and hope in such a delicate flower. Happy New Year to you and planet earth 🌳 and indeed to gardeners everywhere. 🌱🍃☘️
i absolutely love this video it feels like a breath of fresh air from the side of the internet i’m coming from. i just started germinating my seeds for the summer! you have a beautiful garden and even more beautiful energy 🫶🏽🌷🌱
What you said about microclimates is so true. I live in a zone 12 but I can only grow really drought-resistant grasses and flowers in the summer months in the back garden. It's such a sun trap, everything bakes.
Hello my dear. I have watched your garden grow for some time now. I love your greenhouse and all the colors you have in the garden. Just like you, I started my indoor plants during the pandemic. I started the garden many years ago. I love the projects you create since I love projects in the garden also. I enjoy watching. Keep up the great work. 👍👍👍👍
I put in a small perennial flower garden at the back of my house near my patio. Next year I want to attempt a garden like you have done on the left side of your house. Here's hoping!
Hi I've been watching your channel for months from the USA NC. You and your content gives me great joy!! And Just now I was watching when my signed book arrived. Love This!! Have a Beautiful Week. Just wanted to say hello and Thanks for all you do on your channel.
Oh I'm here for this. I have so much enjoyed watching your garden develop. My favourite episodes were tackling the spider shed, what a transformation! And the greenhouse and raised beds. You have created an oasis that I am so envious of 😁
i live in Texas and we have a wonderful season for wildflowers. I strive for an english style garden but with a western flair. Lots of bluebonnets, paint brushes, mexican hats, and indian blankets to name a few annuals. Lots of salvias/sages, turks caps, etc for perennials. We do well with roses too here.
Catherine, you are so talented and creative with your beautiful home and garden. You've accomplished so much. Thank you for sharing. Wishing you a great New Year and all the best for 2024!!
I love this video! Thank you, that's a lot of work to make from beginning to end so much appreciated! Your garden is beautiful!! I love it all! The shed, the greenhouse, your accent! LOL LOVE IT!
Hi! I’ve just pulled up your video again to watch how you did your fake tiling in your greenhouse. AWSOME! Thanks to you, am thinking of doing something similar out on our patio soon as the rain really really goes away! Thanks a million. You’re a very inspiring young lady, best wishes to you. 🙏🏻🇮🇪💐🌻☘️🪷🙋🏼♀️
My garden lesson for this year was to give myself grace throughout this new process, as I just started a flower garden for the first time this past year. I am going to make mistakes, and that’s perfectly fine and part of it!
Catherine your beautiful garden has established it's style. Eyes immediately travel to the tall greenhouse surrounded by pots of plants and trees. Raised beds full of colorful flowers waiting to be cut. Beds full of bulbs and tall sunflowers. Fresh mowed grass and big lawn chairs to relax with a cup of tea when your work is done. Where you marvel at the birds and butterflies and turn you face to the warm sun. Light up the greenhouse and have a Blessed and Happy New Year 2024.
So nice to see your garden genesis. I moved to the country in central Alberta, Canada 21/2 years ago and started from scratch. I now have some fruit trees, a rock garden, a few veggie beds and a place to add a flower garden. It’s been a lot of work, but is so satisfying. BTW, I’m the one with the 3 orphan kittens about the same age as yours. They’re getting so big now. A real joy.
My garden win was pulling out tons of Jimson weed which was taking over (from previous owner), reviving the lawn, which had been destroyed by dogs, and starting a garden, a dream of mine since childhood. I hope to just keep adding more and more because there’s still lots of blank space. I’m mainly aiming for edible perennials and native plants. 💕
Thank you for sharing your beautiful garden. My garden brings me a lot of joy too ❤❤ My garden wins were my spring bulbs especially the tulips and my roses. I also had three peonies flower for the first time. I had success growing snapdragons and cosmos from seed. My fails were sweet peas and zinnias from seed and my dahlias were not as great this year.
Love your beautiful garden you have created! I live in Northern California Humboldt county by the sea. I love Shasta daisy's, any daisy's, grasses, nandina and succulents. Love playing in the soil. Gods peace 🙂
I’ve been gardening for over 40 years and I’m always changing it,I love the garden in spring and autumn. Our garden is very free draining so in the summer it can look quite tired.❤ your garden is beautiful.
I bought lady bugs every year. They are wonderful. Also original irish soap is what I use to wash almost everything down in the yard. And you will find bars of those even around my home. They are awesome as a insect deterrent
This was what I needed after a solid week of dreary gray days. I'm going to go through my seed stash and take stock of what I already have before the seed catalogs start pouring in after the 1st of the year. My big win for 2023 is that all 48 of my Apricot Beauty foxglove seeds germinated, and produced beautiful, lush green plants. They're tucked into areas of the garden with dappled shade. Can't wait to see them bloom in 2024!
Your garden looks so lovely, flowers do bring joy. I am leaning a little more into potted flowers since watching you garden over the year. My biggest joy this year is learning that I can leave my carrots in the soil, covered by large bags of leaves, under the snow and still pull out the most delicious crunchy snack ever. I garden in zone 5b, New Brunswick, Canada. Laurie
My big win in the garden last year was that, when I needed to relocate my tomato plant plot, I decided not to dig up more grass but simply to create a no-dig bed. It was so easy to do and I felt I was feeding the soil with the decomposing sod instead of ripping it out and losing a lot of soil - and had very few weeds! My hope this year is that the tulip bulbs my daughter brought back from a stop over in Schiphol Airport on her way back to the US come up 🙂
I am excited today is april 7th and this weekend ill be able to plant my sunflowers, 1st time ever. And i thinkntwp more flowers can go in at the ens of april . Most will have to wait till mid may. But i cold seeded for my veggie garden this year, so i hope to have 2 maybe 3 for some veggies Your flowers are absolutely beautiful! Thank you for sharing
I just now discovered your channel. The word cottage drew me but then I saw Ireland! I’m half Irish but have never been there. Everything about this video was a delight, including your lovely accent! You have created such a sweet garden.
Hi Catherine! I have been glued to your channel since mid-2019. It never grows old to me. I love it more and more. You have taught me so much and inspired me all along the way! I am absolutely my truest self in the garden. I have been working in my garden since I bought my home in 2019. I have been focusing on flowerbed borders and trees, and this year, a new redwood fence. I can not be happier with the way things are coming along. I'm really looking forward to seeing what the new season brings. Today, i purchased two beautiful yellow climbing roses for an arch entering a shade garden / work space. Thank you for sharing, teaching, and inspiring us!
I agree a garden is never done. I'm two years into mine and my summer flower garden is currently flourishing, but I'm already thinking about what I can do differently next year to make it even better and more harmonious.
Hello, dear Catherine 👋😊 THANK YOU very much for your videos and creations. for your channel, for the inspirations... THANK YOU for being you. I wish you all the best, especially love, health, happiness. With Love Maťa from Slovakia 👋😊🥂🍾❤️🌼☘️✨
It IS all about the journey and change. I like to see the daily changes in the garden.. this year I want to dress up my chain link fence, somehow, maybe some vines like clematis.. looking forward to spring.. lots to do, before then.
Hi there I’m creating a garden from scratch here in the hills of Donegal There is no shelter and loads of rushes 😢 It’s quite a challenge but after 3 years I’m finally starting to see progress 😊 Bushes hedges trees and fences and now just got a wee paddock donated by hubby (farmer ) so excited to make an orchard Love you channel ❤
You have such a lovely garden, and I enjoy watching your updates. This year's success is the ever-bearing strawberries growing in the old cast iron tub that came out of our 100-year old house. I added hoops from pliant branches, and plastic for freezing nights. They are so happy, blooming, with berries ripening now!
Hello from California USA. I have only just found your channel and must say you have taken to gardening in the best most natural way! I admire all that you have done, with the beautiful greenhouse the raised beds and the floor and garden wall you " bricked." What a great and creative way to add loads of charm! I will continue to follow your inspiring channel...plus I love to listen to your Irish accent! Happy Spring!
love Dainty's garden :) I keep saying I should plant some fresh vegies and every spare space in my tiny gdn, i plant more flowers , I just love them so much
My win this year was definitely my purple coneflower from seed. Started indoors in February and had 90+% germination! Planted in greenhouse garden and the bunnies ate them to nubs but almost all grew right back once i closed up the bunny holes. Can't wait for this year! US zone 6a.
What a beautiful garden. I have just bought my first and last thatched cottage with a nice sized garden. I can’t wait to grow cut flowers. I have a few on order now. ❤ thank you for sharing!
Thank you, Catherine. I really appreciate you making these videos for us. I find them so calming and they help me to relax (working two jobs and consulting for a third). It's the mental escape that I need.
Gosh. I thoroughly enjoyed seeing your garden adventure and your interesting and motivating words. Thank you. What I'll do different in 2024 is installing hoops with nets over some of my raised beds ... the rabbits and deer had a grand graze and I hope to enjoy some of the produce this coming year. Thank you again.
Would love to see a how to clean and disinfect your garden tools and any other tips. Your videos are so helpful not to mention absolutely gorgeous! Absolutely beautiful I love it! Hope you have a beautiful year full of everything you love! 🥰🥰🥰❤️
Amazing!! I have been viewing your garden videos since the beginning. You have created such a beautiful space and your love for gardening truly shows. Thank you for being an inspiration!
I love watching your vlogs especially the garden videos. I feel my garden year in 2023 was disappointing. Things I grew from seed didn't really take off, I lost a few perrenials and shrubs after the long cold spell in December etc. But its a new year and I can't wait to get going (and sowing).
Love it! 🌼💐🌿💗 Someone told me to make a new garden each year... That it doesn't have to be Done/Complete all at once. That was a great tip and since then my yard and gardens have come to life and grown. AND... It makes it much easier to maintain as well as makes it Exciting to something new to look forward to every year. Thank you for sharing! Much Love and Light coming your way from Western NY USA (Rochester, NY zone 6B) 🐞🌿 Ladybug Lane 🐞🌿 💗🌿💐🐇🌼🐦💐🌿💗
Garden win for me…created my first in ground garden in a patch of lawn and the soil was pretty nutrient poor. I have slowly been building it up, and recently when I planted my garlic I found worms!! The soil is healing and I am loving it. Thanks for all the inspiration.❤