Weekly Garden Tour - Secret Cottage Garden - Reality Gardening! 

I appreciate what you said about messy gardens and finding time. Sometimes I can watch gardening channels and everything is so perfect that I feel bad about my weeds and mess. But you have to remember every one is different. Some people have more time , more money, maybe gardeners to help out. I try to just appreciate the joy my plants bring even if everything isn’t perfect. 😊🌹 🌸

Lessons from gardening apply to life. Isn't it amazing how that is? Nothing is ever perfect in life and we need to appreciate all of the beauty despite all of life's weeds. Lol! I find as I get older, I am more relaxed about things than I used to be. You are so right, Pam, we can't let our joy be robbed from us. I so appreciate you! ❤

Your garden is a *real* garden and that’s why I enjoy watching you in your garden 😃

Love everything about your gardens. You’re a girl after my own heart. Your tours are very encouraging! I don’t know how you even have time to video and post but I’m SO glad you do!! Thank you!!

I love your voice as you narrate the garden tour. Very relaxing.

You don't have to explain a thing and never apologize. The joy.is in the individual plants that are all unique and beautiful. I have several gardens that all are chaos but I love all my plants. They bring me much happiness and tranquility through their beauty. That is my therapy. Love your videos

I truly enjoy your gardens, the way you garden. I love that they are filled to overflowing and that everything is mingling together and not too refined. I love that you enjoy so many different types of flowers, and you're real and genuine. Everything you share is such a blessing. Just keep doing what you do and, as you said, don't sweat it. Thank you!!

It's amazing what you have growing, with the weather and gophers to deal with. It's so beautiful!

Even though I enjoy such a wide variety of the flowers you grow my favorite part of your garden tours is when you get to the poppies. The red is my favorite but I really love all poppies. I live down the street from Sonoma State University and I saw a fried egg poppy growing wild. I’ve gone back several times to enjoy it. Thank you for all the time you take working on your channel to bring us so many different flowers!🌺

I have been so inspired by all of your garden creativity! I appreciate your down to earth style and easy going nature. I'm kind of shocked that someone would actually criticize your garden. We would never judge a painting before it's finished, and a garden is a living piece of art. Keep on doing what you're doing, it is wonderful!

The gardening videos I really enjoy are the wild and messy one, very relatable. One of my favorites was a garden tour from Dig, Water, Plant, Repeat, where Janey toured and interviewed two botanist who transformed their yard into California native garden…

Beautiful natural looking garden with a great selection of plants, its a pollinators dream.

Thank you Pam for what you said. I really needed to hear that! 🙏😇❤️👍

There are always going to be haters! Don't let them take your joy! I love all your beautiful flowers. Keep up the good work!

Thank you Pam! I love your real and authentic garden that you share. Keep up the great work, helpful information and inspiring plants for us to try.

Another beautiful garden tour. Thank you Pamela. Your gorgeous flowers, that you have mostly grown from seed, serve as a great encouragement for me to keep on sowing seed. I am almost out of time here in Australia to start my cool season flowers. I adore the Campions and have never thought of growing them until I saw yours on this video. You have a stunning, cottage garden.💚🌲

Another beautiful tour. I completely agree with you on moving the Vego garden bed. I think that's a perfect location, and you'll be able to walk all the way around it to do some planting. I see how it's very hard to plant in the corner of it. I look forward to your videos every day. Your garden is a lush, thriving, blooming cottage garden. It is exactly the way it's supposed to be... relaxing, magical, beautiful, and peaceful! I wait for the day that you find a spot in your garden sit there and paint a picture of part of your garden. That would be so beautiful! ❤❤

Dont listen to nay sayers,yours looks like a proper cottage garden is supposed to look like.I always enjoy your videos so keep on doing what youre doing

I needed that pep talk. Thank you. Sometimes I feel like why do I bother. A lot of the time I find joy in the little individual plants, but if I take it all in as a whole I get somewhat disappointed.

Ha! I am adding more shrubs each year to tame some of the chaos. Your garden is delightful!

Thank you so much! There are parts for my garden I love and parts that are just a mess. But as long as I am making progress, I am happy.

Dear flower patch lady, oh my i have thoroughly enjoying the whole video, every second ofnit,the pam chat and the chicken chat is my perfect listening. I love everything you have shown us today, i need a 3rd look to remember some as i have some the same,my petunias are getting chewed by slugs im very upset with those slugs. Thankyou so much, your garden s again very very beautiful, the natural way,i love it,take care from me and my garden girls, 🐔,, to you and your s.xx

When I worked full time, I only had in my garden what I could keep under control. Then I worked part time in a garden center & Lord help, I was always bringing home plants/ flowers mostly on clearance. But some were not. Now I’m retired & have plenty of time but want to travel more & not have to worry about my garden. So I’m trying to keep things simple & not add to it anymore. I’ve always like an organized garden, though. I don’t really like things touching. lol Take care & do what you can when you can but I wouldn’t add so much to where you can’t keep up. Make life easier.❤

I enjoyed the tour of your garden! Just beautiful things and you are doing a great job! Inspirational for sure! ❤ Zone 3b gardener

Thank you Pam well said ! Some people do work an ,enjoy a garden! Mine is weedy but I work 6 an 2 s so that is what it is!!!!!

I'm amazed that you still have pansies blooming. I have pressed and dried my last ones for the season (temps in 90s with heat index 105). I use the dried flowers for journals and to put in cards to friends. Love your garden - never feel you have to spologize for it.

Your garden looks wonderful. It’s a cottage garden. It’s a garden with a lot of varieties. It’s developing. I know I don’t plant once and forget it. It takes time to see if a plant does well in my garden and it can take several years to figure it out. Right plant in the right place-exactly! What I’m discovering is the larger the oak gets the stronger the Columbine and astilbe get-they are Really taking off and I’ve had them for 7 years. The plants tell you eventually where they want to be. Plants I thought would work sometimes work too well and then some not at all. I had to rip out the poppies as they took over-well, now I have a gap, but I still had Scabiosa I grew from seed waiting to get planted and in they went. Will they work there? I don’t know 🤷‍♀️ and we wait and see. I have So many new varieties this year and until spring we never know what makes it through the winter and so it begins. I’m just in awe that you’re not swatting mosquitoes-Oh they are bad with the rain we’ve had. We had none in our year long drought and almost forgot about them. The cannas I overwintered looked fine and didn’t come up. Good thing I kept some seeds and on a whim I threw them in a winter sow jug-🎉they grew! I wonder if the clover got reflection from GH door and fried it. About not the right thing you ordered-this is the second go around with Swallowtail for CORAL geraniums! I told them they are scarlet last year and they resent what is suppose to be coral-Well, they are about to bloom and they look scarlet! I guess I will try orange next year in hopes we get into the right color zone. I have no idea why they are scarlet and don’t believe they can be that off in color no matter the soil-haven’t a clue why they are called coral.

All of your garden's are so beautiful. I admire what you achive. There is so much in there! Wow.😊😊😊😊😊

I really enjoy seeing all of your flowers in your gardens, they're really beautiful. I know gardening takes a ton of work especially having multiple gardens. My garden isn't perfect either its a real garden like yours and I only have one.I personally think you're doing a great job. You are so right we also need to take the time to enjoy what we already have in our gardens.Have a peaceful day!

I love your gardens. I battle weeds constantly, have plants that want to get 3 feet tall then spread in the middle and flop, I constantly relocate, stake etc... I don't care for perfectly manicured lawns ,shrubs cut into cubes and everything meticulous. The wooded back drop you have is just beautiful and I'm so jealous of your Delphiniums ( which I struggle with) If I had more free time mine would probably be a bit more weed free but I wouldn't change my taste for a more naturally wild design. I wanted the koko loko rose so badly but its not hardy to my zone. Vicki

I'm with you , I have to work outside the home.and garden when I can , it's still a work in progress probably will never be done some areas look better than others, the heat,time and weeds are the hardest things for me to deal with, wish i had done some things differently, I'm learning alot watching youtube and being inspired and motivated.

Someone who likes structured contemporary landscaping is always going to see a cottage garden as messy even if there aren't weeds. It's just the wild nature of what a cottage garden is. I think mine looks messy but that's what a cottage garden IS. I often think my food forest and garden in the back look messy but it's what I want and the "messy" one in front matches my 1910 bungalow.

Hi Pam! ❤ negative Nancy's can just hush 🤫 Lol 😂 your garden is wild AND beautiful and bountiful and lush and so many good things! #realgardens I so enjoy your videos. I love that you're relatable!! My garden is beautiful but never "done" and certainly never perfectly tidy! 😅😅 I have too many projects to be tidy 🤣

Gorgeous! Tell me about your watering can tree.

Trim a few inches off the legs of the tall bench (to make it the height you like of the other one). Tall benches hurt the legs of short people. They make you want to bring your legs up onto the bench.

👩🏻‍🌾😻🥰 hi I’m new to your channel. I liked and subscribed 😻

Dang, moving an 8' raised bed. I think a husband would say "why don't you just plant the lettuce on the side that's behind the greenhouse?".

If someone is complaining, tell them to not watch. You don't need that negativity. Welcome to gardening, it is a lovely slow process to be enjoyed. If you want instant gratification, go to a landscaping channel. Anyone can plop a couple of flats of flowers in a bed 😂