I love how real this garden tour is. Anyone who gardens knows about the imperfections and the evolving nature of gardens but we don’t often see that portrayed in videos. Very refreshing to see that and it in no way takes away from the beauty. Thanks for keeping it real,
I originate from Wisconsin, when you said crick instead of creek many childhood memories came to mind, that and the fact that some things will always stay the same, especially my terminology. I’ve lived in Michigan now much longer than I lived in Wisconsin but I will always consider Wisconsin my home. There’s just something about Wisconsin that you fall in love with even at a very young age. Wisconsin will forever be in my heart. 🌸💚🙃
Thanks Erin. Your gardens are all beautiful. Perfectly imperfect just like we are. I have learned so much from you. You are willing to think outside the box which makes your gardening so endearing. And I am so grateful to you for introducing Roy on your channel. What a treasure of a person he is. One of the trailblazers in a new gardening movement. He provides gardening as well as life tips. Stay as authentic as you are. It's a sweet message to put out into this crazy world of ours. Be Well!!!
Thanks for showing us the "honest garden tour". We all struggle with imperfections in the garden and its nice to see that garden experts do too. Unless you have a team helping you, its tough to keep up with everything and it can be discouraging when you see these perfect garden tours. Looking forward to meeting you in person at the Proven Winners show at Mackinac Island.
You have really been a busy girl! It looks sooo beautiful! You would never guess that your new gardens are only a few months old. Just imagine next year! And seriously...they look very manicured. Thank you for sharing!💐❤
It IS good that it's not perfect! Thank You for NOT being a stale, perfect, HGTV look-a-like!! Perfect is boring, and also unattainable in my own garden. I look forward to the not-so-perfect-tours coming up!!
Erin! Your gardens are fantastic. Don’t worry about imperfections, that’s what makes them unique. Love your videos, your comments, your autocorrecting of plant names. You’re my fav!
Thanks for showing us your garden as it is. I think it is perfection! We all see the imperfection in our gardens when we really should focus on the progress we make. I is all a work in progress.
I drop the dry echinacea blooms on the soil in the garden and in the spring I have bunches of coneflowers. If it's a hybrid it may revert, but it's nice to have those new plants for free!
You crack me up! A friend at the office introduced me to your channel a few months ago and I totally love your videos and garden tours. I've really been enjoying watching instead of spending so much time scrolling through social media. It's refreshing, stress relieving, and educational. I'm making a list of all the plants I would love to have in my garden someday. Thank you for doing what you do!
Like that you kept it real. I think it helps the rest of us relate better. You’ve done a ton of work and it all looks promising. Love the mix of Betony. I think I will move some of mine to create that nice mix of pink and purple.
Just beautiful, Erin! I iove the casual, meadowy feel of your gardens. They just invite one in to enjoy and explore. You and Roy make a good team. ~ Lisa
Erin, everything looks amazing. I love the way you let things hang in there for awhile to give them time to bounce back. I’m sad for the loss of your gorgeous tree. It’s part of gardening, but oh, it hurts. We lost a huge maple in an ice storm a year ago in February. I cried. My boys climbed that tree. I moved hostas and put in a sun garden. I love it now!
Omgosh. You did so much this year. It's a gorgeous garden. It was a lovely peaceful feeling looking at everything. I relate to looking out the window... When ever I get a chance. Truly enjoyed this video
Finally!! If I waited until my garden was perfect, nobody would ever see it. I thought it was so cool when I found a jewelweed plant in my garden...until it seeded itself all over the yard. Now all I do is pull it out. Same with rose of sharon. I will only plant a sterile variety. Thanks for the tour. 😁
Nice garden tour, Erin. Not so perfect works very well. Everything is filling in nicely in the new beds. Sorry you lost that beautiful old Beech. It’s sad when an aged tree succumbs to disease. 🥰
I really love your videos! Someone said "I love your informative, casual videos". I 100% agree! I was just watching your video on planting dahlias from about 3 years ago and in some of the comments they were talking about dirt on the hands and feet. So I wanted to tell people to google "is dirt the new prozac". I don't want to share the link here because if I am paranoid about clicking on random links, I have to assume others are as well. There is actually a chemical reaction that happens in the brain when we get the microbes from dirt into our skin. This reaction mimics what our brain does when we take antidepressants.IT'S SCIENCE!! It would be great if you wanted to share this in one of your videos. I love sharing this info because, it is a natural antidepressant to work in the garden! What an amazingly wonderful thing....on top of the joy from watching the garden grow!!! Thank you for all you give us!!!
This was a great tour! Everything looked so lush and it seems to be a very peaceful place to be. Thanks for being so honest in how you corrected the names, it made me smile. I'm glad it wasn't perfect. That's how most of our gardens look, so you are just keeping it real. I appreciate that alot. Thanks so much!
So beautiful and I appreciate seeing gardens that look like they need to be weeded because that is how mine look! It’s so much better than always seeing perfection and feeling like I am falling short. Life happens and the garden is a place to enjoy not to feel stress. These new areas will be so spectacular and natural looking. I just love them!
Good morning Erin, happy Friday! Thanks for this tour! While watching the videos you made with Jim I was hoping for a more in depth look at this new area. Love your channel! Thanks for sharing 🤗
It was fun to watch you and Jim Putnam on your garden. Then to see his July tour then yours. Wow what a huge change this year for both of you. Great job guys
I love the "not perfect" garden because I have one of those, lol! I think everything looks great and I really love your plant and color choices. Looking forward to updates as it all matures.😊
That 'Spot On' pulmonaria is a great shade perennial! I have one that I got from a bargain rack somewhere and I am on the hunt to add more to the garden. It is such a smooth transition plant in a woodland garden! Great upload Erin....your garden is so versatile and plenty visual interest! Very inspiring!
I just created a bed that is sun on one half and shade on the other. I planted the Spot On about two weeks ago and it has already shot up several leaves with many more forming. I'm very pleased with it and I can't wait to see it in bloom next year.
Loved the video. You cracked me up when the camera flipped to talk about eating plants…hahaha the tour was great please do another soon I miss seeing you on RUclips. Gardens are looking beautiful, I am so impressed with the amount of growth in Roy’s garden…it will be full in no time. Thank again love the content. 😁✌🏻🌱
Thank you for the imperfect garden tour (although it all looked looked pretty terrific to me). Its nice to see some of the earlier stages of your gardens. It gives me hope that my imperfect garden will someday look even a teeny bit like parts of your lovely one..
Love the not perfect garden tours! I've come to the conclusion that's just the way it is! Especially if you want to have friends over....can't wait for that perfect moment. Mine was just hitting peak, then huge dead tree limb fell in middle of garden....that's when you have to just step back and accept we are not living in a perfect world! Go with the flo! As for those weeds, such an opportunity for a good bottle of wine :)
Oh what a beautiful property you have! I love Midwest gardens and yours is particularly pleasing to look at. I’ve got a few ideas for my young Chicago garden. Thank you for sharing.
I loved this tour. Especially the comment about the not perfect! I love in zone 4, Minnesota. Your tour gives me permission to have some areas that need more time. Thank you
It's been so humid here in south eastern Tn. My garden is definitely in need of work but humid. Glad to see and imperfect garden also. We alway that others are perfect 🥰
The garden looks so free flowing and whimsical Erin! I love the combination of plants and it’s filled in so beautifully in one season. Wow! Just an FYI, I’ve been so inspired by your gardens and especially your Dahlias that I planted 9 for the first time as tubers and 3 more from seed that are all ready to bloom. Actually, Garden Desire has bloomed first and is loaded! It’s a shorter version for the front of the border. Thank for your inspiration! I always anticipate your new vlogs because they are peaceful and bring me so much joy! 🌼🌸🪴👩🏼🌾
This tour was especially interesting in that it displayed a "work in progress". Looking forward to seeing "Roys garden" in late summer. My three dahlias are not looking great - I am blaming cool nights at 4,300 ft. I was so hoping to send you pictures. Well, I have 2 1/2 months left to produce some flowers.
Erin, This is gorgeous! I am speechless at how this area has turned out! I have taken to watching your videos with pen and Garden Journal in hand as I learn so much
Erin the garden looks wonderful, I love so much that you keep it real by dividing plants, growing from seeds. It looks so serene and tranquil. Love it! You've done a fabulous job
It is so sad to lose a beautiful tree, but it is no use crying over spilled milk, as the saying goes. Betony is a plant I have never grown, but I want to find a space for some. So lovely.
I love how real this garden tour is. Anyone who gardens knows about the imperfections and the evolving nature of gardens but we don’t often see that portrayed in videos. Very refreshing to see that and it in no way takes away from the beauty. Thanks for keeping it real,
I originate from Wisconsin, when you said crick instead of creek many childhood memories came to mind, that and the fact that some things will always stay the same, especially my terminology. I’ve lived in Michigan now much longer than I lived in Wisconsin but I will always consider Wisconsin my home. There’s just something about Wisconsin that you fall in love with even at a very young age. Wisconsin will forever be in my heart. 🌸💚🙃
We say "crick" in southwestern PA, also.
Thanks Erin. Your gardens are all beautiful. Perfectly imperfect just like we are. I have learned so much from you. You are willing to think outside the box which makes your gardening so endearing. And I am so grateful to you for introducing Roy on your channel. What a treasure of a person he is. One of the trailblazers in a new gardening movement. He provides gardening as well as life tips. Stay as authentic as you are. It's a sweet message to put out into this crazy world of ours. Be Well!!!
Thanks, Shelley. 💕
Thanks for showing us the "honest garden tour". We all struggle with imperfections in the garden and its nice to see that garden experts do too. Unless you have a team helping you, its tough to keep up with everything and it can be discouraging when you see these perfect garden tours. Looking forward to meeting you in person at the Proven Winners show at Mackinac Island.
Hello Mary
Stachys, SO PRETTY. I didn't know that could look so pretty. Looks like you showed me new flowers I want. My husband thanks you, LOL.
You have really been a busy girl! It looks sooo beautiful! You would never guess that your new gardens are only a few months old. Just imagine next year! And seriously...they look very manicured. Thank you for sharing!💐❤
It IS good that it's not perfect!
Thank You for NOT being a stale,
perfect,
HGTV
look-a-like!!
Perfect is boring,
and also unattainable in my own garden.
I look forward to the not-so-perfect-tours coming up!!
Erin! Your gardens are fantastic. Don’t worry about imperfections, that’s what makes them unique. Love your videos, your comments, your autocorrecting of plant names. You’re my fav!
Absolutely LOVE your new gardens. The “crick” is such a dramatic presentation, so beautiful!
Thanks for showing us your garden as it is. I think it is perfection! We all see the imperfection in our gardens when we really should focus on the progress we make. I is all a work in progress.
Erin, they all look wonderful and that’s why I like your channel…you keep it real! We all have weeds!❤️🌸
It all looks so marvelous! And it is refreshing to see lots of lesser known plants.. not all proven winners!!!
I drop the dry echinacea blooms on the soil in the garden and in the spring I have bunches of coneflowers. If it's a hybrid it may revert, but it's nice to have those new plants for free!
You’ve been very busy, everything looks lovely Erin.🌸💚🙃
Be still my heart with such variety, just beautiful.
You crack me up! A friend at the office introduced me to your channel a few months ago and I totally love your videos and garden tours. I've really been enjoying watching instead of spending so much time scrolling through social media. It's refreshing, stress relieving, and educational. I'm making a list of all the plants I would love to have in my garden someday. Thank you for doing what you do!
I read this before I noticed your name! I thought this sounds like Aubrey! lol I love Erin's videos!
@@phylliszimmerman7068 Lol! Thank you for introducing me to her!
I love a not-perfect-garden-tour, especially in the summer when it’s too hot in my garden for perfection! Beautiful gardens!
Hello Ashley
Like that you kept it real. I think it helps the rest of us relate better. You’ve done a ton of work and it all looks promising. Love the mix of Betony. I think I will move some of mine to create that nice mix of pink and purple.
Thanks for showing the garden as we all have with weeds and not perfect. 🤗💗🤗
It’s looking better then “pretty good”. It looks beautiful! Thanks for sharing!
Just beautiful, Erin! I iove the casual, meadowy feel of your gardens. They just invite one in to enjoy and explore. You and Roy make a good team. ~ Lisa
Erin, everything looks amazing. I love the way you let things hang in there for awhile to give them time to bounce back. I’m sad for the loss of your gorgeous tree. It’s part of gardening, but oh, it hurts. We lost a huge maple in an ice storm a year ago in February. I cried. My boys climbed that tree. I moved hostas and put in a sun garden. I love it now!
I LOVE my Coronation Gold Yarrow!
Nice and tall with strong stems and gorgeous flat golden flower heads!
Omgosh. You did so much this year. It's a gorgeous garden. It was a lovely peaceful feeling looking at everything. I relate to looking out the window... When ever I get a chance. Truly enjoyed this video
Looking really good, so pretty!! We all have weeds but what most of us see is the beauty you have created!!❤️
Your gardens sure look perfect to me, it gives me great ideas for my own garden areas.
You’re beautiful. Your garden is pretty too :)
This will be gorgeous in 3 years. Pagoda dogwood is my favorite shrub/small tree. Nicely done!
Finally!! If I waited until my garden was perfect, nobody would ever see it. I thought it was so cool when I found a jewelweed plant in my garden...until it seeded itself all over the yard. Now all I do is pull it out. Same with rose of sharon. I will only plant a sterile variety. Thanks for the tour. 😁
Nice garden tour, Erin. Not so perfect works very well. Everything is filling in nicely in the new beds. Sorry you lost that beautiful old Beech. It’s sad when an aged tree succumbs to disease. 🥰
Hello, Erin 👋🏻 It all looks well to me! Not perfect IS perfect! Have a Blessed Day 😊
Erin the garden looks so lush and beautiful! I can’t wait to see Roy’s garden at the end of the season!
I really love your videos! Someone said "I love your informative, casual videos". I 100% agree! I was just watching your video on planting dahlias from about 3 years ago and in some of the comments they were talking about dirt on the hands and feet. So I wanted to tell people to google "is dirt the new prozac". I don't want to share the link here because if I am paranoid about clicking on random links, I have to assume others are as well. There is actually a chemical reaction that happens in the brain when we get the microbes from dirt into our skin. This reaction mimics what our brain does when we take antidepressants.IT'S SCIENCE!! It would be great if you wanted to share this in one of your videos. I love sharing this info because, it is a natural antidepressant to work in the garden! What an amazingly wonderful thing....on top of the joy from watching the garden grow!!! Thank you for all you give us!!!
Looks beautiful! We appreciate you sharing with us.
Love love love not perfect garden tours! Thank you for always keeping it real, Erin.
This was a great tour! Everything looked so lush and it seems to be a very peaceful place to be. Thanks for being so honest in how you corrected the names, it made me smile. I'm glad it wasn't perfect. That's how most of our gardens look, so you are just keeping it real. I appreciate that alot. Thanks so much!
Imperfect garden tours are my kind of tours. My gardens are never perfect.
Imperfect garden tours are the best!
Hello Janet
Love you lush woodland gardens it’s so peaceful ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Hello Cathy
The stachys are beautiful!
Great choice!
I am really looking forward to watching that Garden filling and develop. 🌞
Amazing job, such a great recovery from a tough situation!🤩🌾🌼🌻
Thanks for sharing your garden,they are looking great.Can’t wait to see more.
I love this style. Enjoy seeing the stachys/betony like I have in the pot
Beautiful…glad to see I’m not the only one with weeds and imperfect edging
So beautiful and I appreciate seeing gardens that look like they need to be weeded because that is how mine look! It’s so much better than always seeing perfection and feeling like I am falling short. Life happens and the garden is a place to enjoy not to feel stress. These new areas will be so spectacular and natural looking. I just love them!
Good morning Erin, happy Friday! Thanks for this tour! While watching the videos you made with Jim I was hoping for a more in depth look at this new area. Love your channel! Thanks for sharing 🤗
You are sooooo lucky. Lake Geneva hasn't had rain in two or more weeks.
It was fun to watch you and Jim Putnam on your garden. Then to see his July tour then yours. Wow what a huge change this year for both of you. Great job guys
The remade beds are just gorgeous!!!
This has been a fantastic learning experience for us. Thank you!!
I’m LOVING all of this!!! That carex alata I want now! Can’t wait to see how this all fills in, in the next year.
Thank you for the tour. Beautiful!!💛🧡💛🧡
Never heard of Stachys. I am checking them out now. I always appreciate learning about new stuff that works in zone 5.
Lovely mulch garden, in the American style.
Erin your garden is outstanding 👏
I love the "not perfect" garden because I have one of those, lol! I think everything looks great and I really love your plant and color choices. Looking forward to updates as it all matures.😊
Beautiful Erin! Thanks for the update. Very interesting!
That 'Spot On' pulmonaria is a great shade perennial! I have one that I got from a bargain rack somewhere and I am on the hunt to add more to the garden. It is such a smooth transition plant in a woodland garden! Great upload Erin....your garden is so versatile and plenty visual interest! Very inspiring!
I just created a bed that is sun on one half and shade on the other. I planted the Spot On about two weeks ago and it has already shot up several leaves with many more forming. I'm very pleased with it and I can't wait to see it in bloom next year.
Love the blending...so lovely 💫💔💞💖💙
Hey Erin 👋🏾, love the honest garden tour it's life and it helps to see that it's not just me 🤦🏾♀️☺😉😇 BTW the garden looks great😊to me.
Stunning! You have added a lot of plants. Love it!
Hello Kimberly
Loved the video. You cracked me up when the camera flipped to talk about eating plants…hahaha the tour was great please do another soon I miss seeing you on RUclips. Gardens are looking beautiful, I am so impressed with the amount of growth in Roy’s garden…it will be full in no time. Thank again love the content. 😁✌🏻🌱
Great tour. Love Roy’s garden.
Thank you for the imperfect garden tour (although it all looked looked pretty terrific to me). Its nice to see some of the earlier stages of your gardens. It gives me hope that my imperfect garden will someday look even a teeny bit like parts of your lovely one..
Thanks for allowing us to see what you perceive as imperfections. I realize it's not finished, but it gives us hope and inspiration. Again, thank you!
Love the not perfect garden tours! I've come to the conclusion that's just the way it is! Especially if you want to have friends over....can't wait for that perfect moment. Mine was just hitting peak, then huge dead tree limb fell in middle of garden....that's when you have to just step back and accept we are not living in a perfect world! Go with the flo! As for those weeds, such an opportunity for a good bottle of wine :)
Oh what a beautiful property you have! I love Midwest gardens and yours is particularly pleasing to look at. I’ve got a few ideas for my young Chicago garden. Thank you for sharing.
I loved this tour. Especially the comment about the not perfect! I love in zone 4, Minnesota. Your tour gives me permission to have some areas that need more time. Thank you
It's been so humid here in south eastern Tn. My garden is definitely in need of work but humid. Glad to see and imperfect garden also. We alway that others are perfect 🥰
Erin it looks really fabulous! Amazing to see all the new areas you've been planting up!
Hello there
Everything is coming along beautifully! I personally do not mind the 'not to perfect ' tours. It let's me know that I am not alone.
Beautiful! Gardens are in a stage of continual flux.
The garden looks so free flowing and whimsical Erin! I love the combination of plants and it’s filled in so beautifully in one season. Wow! Just an FYI, I’ve been so inspired by your gardens and especially your Dahlias that I planted 9 for the first time as tubers and 3 more from seed that are all ready to bloom. Actually, Garden Desire has bloomed first and is loaded! It’s a shorter version for the front of the border. Thank for your inspiration! I always anticipate your new vlogs because they are peaceful and bring me so much joy! 🌼🌸🪴👩🏼🌾
I so enjoy your garden tours. thanks for sharing.
The gardens are rarely how we would like to have others see it. Most people don't see what we do.
Looks fabulous! Two of my faves: clematis recta and limonium. Better to make gardens than to revert back to lawn! 💝
Love it and yes, definitely into garden tours perfect or not. Very pretty.
This tour was especially interesting in that it displayed a "work in progress". Looking forward to seeing
"Roys garden" in late summer. My three dahlias are not looking great - I am blaming cool nights at
4,300 ft. I was so hoping to send you pictures. Well, I have 2 1/2 months left to produce some flowers.
The gardens look gorgeous, even with an occasional weed 🙂. I really love that stachys --I like how tall the flower spikes are.
Hello cassi
I love the new beds
I am loving the new areas. Your gardens around the creek give me a fairy garden vibe. Can't wait to see it put on growth next season!
This was great. It is very helpful seeing a new garden before it gets lush and established.
Thanks for the tour. Beautiful!
I appreciate the less than perfect state 💚 It's somehow comforting! Everything is coming along beautifully!!
Erin, This is gorgeous! I am speechless at how this area has turned out! I have taken to watching your videos with pen and Garden Journal in hand as I learn so much
Just beautiful, Erin. Love the unique plants you’ve found and the thought you’ve put into the whole design.
Beautiful Erin 🌸💕🌸
so pleasant to watch
It all looks so great Erin! What a lot of work you have been doing this year. Cheers!
Erin the garden looks wonderful, I love so much that you keep it real by dividing plants, growing from seeds. It looks so serene and tranquil. Love it! You've done a fabulous job
Hello Anne
Thank you for the tour, would love to take a stroll…next year will be fabulous!
Love the not perfect garden tour! Please do more!
It is great when a garden plan comes together. Your new gardens look awesome!
Everything is so beautiful!!!! Thanks so much for sharing!
I LOVE not perfect gardens. I have one of those too.
It looks beautiful! So much progress in such a short time. Great job.
The gardens are looking lovely. I'm glad to see the gardens in an "imperfect" state. It's more real that way and gives me hope.
Hello turula
It is so sad to lose a beautiful tree, but it is no use crying over spilled milk, as the saying goes. Betony is a plant I have never grown, but I want to find a space for some. So lovely.
So pretty 🤩