Excellent! Knowledgeable, practical, and extremely helpful. I still say this the best landscape gardening channel I’ve found, and I’ve watched many, many landscape channels.
WOW! You are a REAL landscape designer! I've encountered some seriously poor designers in my life, with no clear rhyme or reason for their plantings. Thank you so much for fantastic explanations and inspiration!
Please do more of this Michelle! I’m stuck trying to landscape my two level front yard. I’m trying to work in a driveway column with lights on the elevated part of my front yard that’s facing the street (cul de sac). New subscriber.👍
Well… you’ve just about designed my whole yard now!!😂 I am doing a front Island near the entrance and the info you gave on this video and the other design videos is just great! Thankyou once again for the great advice and info, such a great instructor. Wish I lived near your Greenhouse, I’d be there every day! Brenda🇨🇦
Really love your channel not only for the useful information but especially for the great designs that we can create ourselves. And I like that you give different plant options. I’ve enjoyed and learned from all the videos. It’s something different from other channels I watch. Keep it up!
Every single one of your plans for this issue was FABULOUS SISTA!!!!!! I’ve taken 1000 😂 screen shots after watching each bed design!!!! Awesome awesome awesome sista!!!! ❤️❤️❤️
What a helpful video! As I’ve commented before, seeing a visual of the beds at maturity is so useful for someone trying to imagine what the bed will look like when it all grows in. That technique really fills in a gap in the land of gardening videos. Thanks so much for sharing your knowledge and expertise!
Michelle, you amaze me! Such great ideas! Thank you for sharing all the fabulous ideas today with the island beds. You have given me some food for thought on my existing beds to make improvements. Have a super blessed week! ❤
Thank you for showing us actual photos instead of sketches which to me are useless. It's one thing to draw something on paper, but much easier for an amateur like me to see it for real. Everything you say about balance, winter interest etc. makes perfect sense. Thank you!
Oh my goodness! I love them all! You know your stuff, Michelle. These all have a very well designed look. May steal a few ideas from a couple of these.
OMG!! I stumbled upon your video 1:17am!! Michelle I feel I know you!! Thank you!! Great information!! Stunning Islands!! Looking forward to other Videos!!
Great video…I just cut down my 40 YEAR OLD old WEEPING CHERRY tree and needed ideas for a new island bed…love all of your ideas but think I’ll go with the Ornamental Crab tree and other suggested plants… thanks a bunch!
VERY timely, Michelle - thank YOU!!! I am a fellow Northern IL (Northbrook) 5b gal and am working on 2 islands for my front yard. Your suggests were very helpful as I struggle with part and full sun areas. We had thundersnow here last week - so cool - and I am loving the precip for now. So glad I found your channel a few weeks ago!
Hi Michele🌺 So 💚 your videos. You give such great ideas. My husband and I have built a new cape cod and are working on getting the inside done. The home sits in the middle of the property in full sun. I was thinking of planting some hydrangeas in the front, but like the boxwoods and those small juniper shrubs as well. I’ve watched another garden show and the hydrangeas stained their siding. What would you recommend? Thanks for your advice.
Northlawn Flower Farm found a solution when her hydrangeas stained her garage and she did a video on it about 8 months ago? She tested 3 different attempts with different products and found one that worked, I think it was a vinegar solution. I always wanted to let Garden Answer know but looked at the amount of comments they get and gave up thinking they’ll never read it 🤷🏻♀️.
I love your channel! We just took down the huge play set that my kids, now college age, and only one 15-year-old left in the house, played on their whole lives. Heartbreaking! So many wonderful memories:) My only solace is I hope to create an island garden there. You have given me so many wonderful ideas. Thank you. 💚🌱
Hi Michelle! New sub here! I gave up on trying to find the "G" in a certain cable channel that USED to carry landscaping and gardening content! 😅 Love the way you use visual graphics to show viewers how to plan beds. There are so many new homeowners out there who are very afraid of making mistakes, so they simply do nothing when they could be really enjoying their our door space. Thank you! I'm also a Boulder girl...I once baked an apple pie for a guy with an earth mover,so he would push some boulders to the back of my property!😅 #teamrocks
The last island is similar to what we are needing. Thank you for the ideas, and for showing the spirea in place of the hydrangea and the drift roses vs perennials. Hydrangeas and I have a sad history. Missouri 6A...hot, humid, but dry summers.
I love your detailed explanation abt what to consider , and why u choose an island. Wish u can design mine. Bought a house and 1acre land. House sits in middle of property. Seems very overwhelming sometimes since i have no experience abt landscape design. But your video gives a good insights. Thank you very much
Your channel popped up on my feed and it was absolutely fabulous! We live in Texas and I’m not sure some of the plants are deer resistant, but what brilliant ideas. I’ve been wanting to extend my flowerbeds in the backyard and now I understand why the disproportionate size is really nagging at me to change it. Thank you!!
Love, love, love your channel!! I’m so happy I found your channel. I have been looking for help for my front yard landscape. Thank you for sharing and showing us how to design an island, because that’s my scenario. the only thing is that my island will have to be vertical because it is a long, narrow pieces of land.
Maybe in future videos you can talk a little about the maintenance of the gardens, like how to maintain the crisp edges? How often to apply mulch? Do you use weed barriers? You have such a wealth of knowledge, I’m going to be watching more of your videos!
Awesome video! An island is exactly what I’m wanting to create this year in order to add beauty and balance on the north side of our house which only has an old maple tree that is probably going to have to come down. The area gets limited sun, so I’ll have to use more shade tolerant plants, but the information you provided on dimensions, shape, and weight will help tremendously! Thank you!
Another fabulous video! So many great designs. My tendency is to plant more variety of plants, often one of’s, which looks messy. I can see from your designs that picking fewer varieties in greater numbers is more visually appealing.
Thanks for sharing your expertise with us! Our two acre property definitely has space for island designs. Your formula for size is very helpful and surprising. I never would have gotten the scale right without your video. I also liked your selection of workhorse shrubs and perennials. I love color Spring-Autumn and evergreens for winter interest.
Hi Michelle, perfect timing again! I have to revamp a couple of garden beds so your design principles and examples are perfect! The only things I have to be careful of are underground electrical, plumbing and gas lines! 😂❤️🌲🌸🇨🇦
I needed all this information. I like rocks in my beds too, and happen to have one that will be moved to our new flower bed. Your first flower bed gave me the most inspiration for my new bed. Which is in front of a 25 ft deep ravine, and nobody lives behind us. I have daylilies I can transplant to it. So all I need to buy is 6 hydrangaes and 6 veronias. Thanks.
We have a backyard lawn, roughly 70' wide by 32' deep, patio edge to back fence. Boring rectangular yard with house builder-installed Bermuda grass from five years ago with a bit of a downward slope from the back fence toward the patio. Ugh. Anyway, we would love to have two or three modest sized islands in the back 2/3rds of the lawn for pollinator friendly shrubs, perennials, and annuals. I typed this up at the 2:00 mark, hoping this video will answer some questions for us.
Great video! I moved 3 years ago to my lovely home with several islands that need HELP! This video gave me great tips and ideas for colors, balance and shapes. I have a feeling I’m going to be busy over the next few years redoing them or hiring a professional to do them for me.
This tutorial was so helpful. I've wanted to add an island bed in my west-facing back yard since I get poked in the eye ☀️ standing at the kitchen sink to do dishes. (A block or two over, they lost a tree a couple years ago when a mild tornado blew through - it was a zero on the tornado scale.) 😱 My lawn guys have big machines so I checked to see how much space they need to get around. I have an arbor to allow access to the other side. I really like that "Dr. Seuss" chamaecyparis tree, but they seem difficult to find and online trees are so tiny. Rabbits are a problem so I either have to fence off the shrubs and trees for winter or find plants they won't chew on. (Who am I kidding?!)
Oh this video was so helpful. I have two hugh islands in front of my house and I never knew how to landscape them. You made it so easy . I wish you could help me with mine. Thank you!
Love that you are a problem solver. The visuals are so helpful. I'm glad I found your channel.
Me too!!
Excellent! Knowledgeable, practical, and extremely helpful. I still say this the best landscape gardening channel I’ve found, and I’ve watched many, many landscape channels.
So nice of you
Agree
WOW! You are a REAL landscape designer! I've encountered some seriously poor designers in my life, with no clear rhyme or reason for their plantings. Thank you so much for fantastic explanations and inspiration!
Hands down the best landscaping channel on YT
Haha. Probably not. But thank you for your kind words.
When the student is ready, the teacher will come. I learned SO much in this video.
Please do more of this Michelle! I’m stuck trying to landscape my two level front yard. I’m trying to work in a driveway column with lights on the elevated part of my front yard that’s facing the street (cul de sac). New subscriber.👍
I'm so glad I found your channel! Been struggling for 3 yrs to landscape a 20' x 70' sloping space around my water feature I had installed.
Thank you
Finally…a garden bed video with practical, beautiful advice!
Glad you liked it!
Wow! What a wonderful teacher you are!!! I learned so much in your video. Thank you for this teaching. Your work is beautiful 😊😊😊
Thank you so much!
I's funny to me that some neighbors are constantly saying you should do this or that! My garden, my rules.....Great video!!
Love that!
I always think of the lawn as “water” that flows throughout the garden, and islands are like islands out in the ocean…and who doesn’t love an island!😊
Oh, Michelle - this is so very helpful! I can't say thank you enough for the ideas and inspiration in each and every video!!
You are so welcome!
Loved all your tips and enthusiasm
Thanks so much!
Very nice Landscaping design
Many many thanks
More great ideas! Thanks for sharing your knowledge!
You bet!
Well… you’ve just about designed my whole yard now!!😂 I am doing a front Island near the entrance and the info you gave on this video and the other design videos is just great!
Thankyou once again for the great advice and info, such a great instructor. Wish I lived near your Greenhouse, I’d be there every day!
Brenda🇨🇦
Have fun!
Really love your channel not only for the useful information but especially for the great designs that we can create ourselves. And I like that you give different plant options. I’ve enjoyed and learned from all the videos. It’s something different from other channels I watch. Keep it up!
Ok … I now have around 1000 screen shots on my phone from watching this landscape series.
So many great ideas. Thank you 🌿
You are so welcome!
The information here was very useful. The visuals are very helpful. Thank you.
Glad it was helpful!
Wow!! So many great ideas!!!!!
Thank you!! 😊
Every single one of your plans for this issue was FABULOUS SISTA!!!!!!
I’ve taken 1000 😂 screen shots after watching each bed design!!!!
Awesome awesome awesome sista!!!!
❤️❤️❤️
You are so welcome
Beautiful!!
Thank you! 😊
Great practical advice
What a helpful video! As I’ve commented before, seeing a visual of the beds at maturity is so useful for someone trying to imagine what the bed will look like when it all grows in. That technique really fills in a gap in the land of gardening videos. Thanks so much for sharing your knowledge and expertise!
Hi Michelle! You look just like my cousin that passed last year. I wish you nothing but life girl. I came for the advice.
Michelle, you amaze me! Such great ideas! Thank you for sharing all the fabulous ideas today with the island beds. You have given me some food for thought on my existing beds to make improvements. Have a super blessed week! ❤
Thank you so much! You too!!
I love your channel and your ideas are so informative. Keep it up, it’s amazing! Love all you do in Northern Ontario.
Thanks so much!
I love your videos!
Thanks so much. I'm in UK but this is very helpful in getting me started.
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you for showing us actual photos instead of sketches which to me are useless. It's one thing to draw something on paper, but much easier for an amateur like me to see it for real. Everything you say about balance, winter interest etc. makes perfect sense. Thank you!
You're welcome 😊
Another wonderful informative video. So much appreciate you sharing your knowledge. 💕💕🎶🎶
Oh my goodness! I love them all! You know your stuff, Michelle. These all have a very well designed look. May steal a few ideas from a couple of these.
Go for it!
Great info and video!!!! Thanks, Michelle!
Best gardening channel. Best tips.
Great teacher... ❤
Wow, thanks
great video, thank you for sharing. this was very helpful and again thank you
OMG!! I stumbled upon your video 1:17am!! Michelle I feel I know you!! Thank you!! Great information!! Stunning Islands!! Looking forward to other Videos!!
You are so welcome! and welcome!!!! :)
Always so fascinating to hear your very sound, and very thorough, advice on landscaping.Hope your channel keeps going for a long, long time. 💚😊💚
So nice of you
Great video…I just cut down my 40 YEAR OLD old WEEPING CHERRY tree and needed ideas for a new island bed…love all of your ideas but think I’ll go with the Ornamental Crab tree and other suggested plants… thanks a bunch!
This was awesome! Thanks!
You're so welcome!
Great video, Michelle 💚💛💜💙🧡
Glad you liked it!!
Great tips and plant suggestions. I learned a lot. Subscribed.
Welcome 😀
This video explains so much! Thank You!
You're very welcome!
This was so helpful!! Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge!
VERY timely, Michelle - thank YOU!!! I am a fellow Northern IL (Northbrook) 5b gal and am working on 2 islands for my front yard. Your suggests were very helpful as I struggle with part and full sun areas. We had thundersnow here last week - so cool - and I am loving the precip for now. So glad I found your channel a few weeks ago!
Hi Michele🌺
So 💚 your videos. You give such great ideas. My husband and I have built a new cape cod and are working on getting the inside done. The home sits in the middle of the property in full sun. I was thinking of planting some hydrangeas in the front, but like the boxwoods and those small juniper shrubs as well. I’ve watched another garden show and the hydrangeas stained their siding. What would you recommend? Thanks for your advice.
@@sharidruckenmiller9372would that be Garden Answer with Laura? lol, I saw where her hydrangeas stained the house! 😊
Northlawn Flower Farm found a solution when her hydrangeas stained her garage and she did a video on it about 8 months ago?
She tested 3 different attempts with different products and found one that worked, I think it was a vinegar solution.
I always wanted to let Garden Answer know but looked at the amount of comments they get and gave up thinking they’ll never read it 🤷🏻♀️.
@@staceyallard2692 yes, it was Laura from Garden Answer…😀
Wonderful! And welcome neighbor😀😀
I love your channel! We just took down the huge play set that my kids, now college age, and only one 15-year-old left in the house, played on their whole lives. Heartbreaking! So many wonderful memories:) My only solace is I hope to create an island garden there. You have given me so many wonderful ideas. Thank you. 💚🌱
Thank you Michelle great video. Great ideas. Love this channel. Come on warmer weather!!! LOL!
Right?!
Love all of these! thank you for sharing!
Glad you like them!
Love your channel! I just purchased an older home is in desperate need of an update inside and out. You are giving great info for my yard
You are a very knowledgeable designer. I’ll be referring to your videos when I’m ready to put an island together! Thank you for sharing your wisdom.
Hi Michelle! New sub here! I gave up on trying to find the "G" in a certain cable channel that USED to carry landscaping and gardening content! 😅 Love the way you use visual graphics to show viewers how to plan beds. There are so many new homeowners out there who are very afraid of making mistakes, so they simply do nothing when they could be really enjoying their our door space. Thank you! I'm also a Boulder girl...I once baked an apple pie for a guy with an earth mover,so he would push some boulders to the back of my property!😅 #teamrocks
The last island is similar to what we are needing. Thank you for the ideas, and for showing the spirea in place of the hydrangea and the drift roses vs perennials. Hydrangeas and I have a sad history. Missouri 6A...hot, humid, but dry summers.
Yup..and you are welcome 😀
I love your detailed explanation abt what to consider , and why u choose an island. Wish u can design mine. Bought a house and 1acre land. House sits in middle of property. Seems very overwhelming sometimes since i have no experience abt landscape design. But your video gives a good insights. Thank you very much
Your channel popped up on my feed and it was absolutely fabulous! We live in Texas and I’m not sure some of the plants are deer resistant, but what brilliant ideas. I’ve been wanting to extend my flowerbeds in the backyard and now I understand why the disproportionate size is really nagging at me to change it. Thank you!!
Love, love, love your channel!! I’m so happy I found your channel. I have been looking for help for my front yard landscape. Thank you for sharing and showing us how to design an island, because that’s my scenario. the only thing is that my island will have to be vertical because it is a long, narrow pieces of land.
Amazing results.Thanks 👏 🤩 Thanks for sharing 👍 I appreciate it very much.
Fantastic ideas!
Glad you like them!
What an amazing video. I have learned so much from you about Island beds. Thank you so much for making this video
Glad you enjoyed it!
Great Video Michelle, I love the visual.
Glad you like it!
I love your ideas and I plan to implement them in my yard.
😻👋🏽Hi! I just found your channel. I love your attitude. My house my garden! I love it!🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
Thanks for joining us!!! 😀😀
Thank you so much! I really appreciate your channel
Maybe in future videos you can talk a little about the maintenance of the gardens, like how to maintain the crisp edges? How often to apply mulch? Do you use weed barriers?
You have such a wealth of knowledge, I’m going to be watching more of your videos!
Good idea
Excellent! Thank you for sharing all of this wonderful information.
Glad it was helpful!
Wow, excellent information! So glad I found your channel 💚💚💚
Welcome!
Great video, Michelle! Thank you!
You are so welcome!
Love your channel! Very informative and helpful. Great designs.
Thanks so much!
Love your designs and plant choices. Thnx for ideas and inspiration!
Awesome video! An island is exactly what I’m wanting to create this year in order to add beauty and balance on the north side of our house which only has an old maple tree that is probably going to have to come down. The area gets limited sun, so I’ll have to use more shade tolerant plants, but the information you provided on dimensions, shape, and weight will help tremendously! Thank you!
Another fabulous video! So many great designs. My tendency is to plant more variety of plants, often one of’s, which looks messy. I can see from your designs that picking fewer varieties in greater numbers is more visually appealing.
Love this video!!! Another hit!
Thanks for sharing your expertise with us! Our two acre property definitely has space for island designs. Your formula for size is very helpful and surprising. I never would have gotten the scale right without your video. I also liked your selection of workhorse shrubs and perennials. I love color Spring-Autumn and evergreens for winter interest.
Glad it was helpful!
Great video. Very helpful.
Glad it was helpful!
I absolutely love the visuals! By far the most helpful channel I've found!
Thank you,thank you,thank you for your channel. Your are sooo informative. I am so glad I found you. So much information that I have been looking for.
You are so welcome!
Love your videos,!
Beautiful ❤
Luv your videos . Everything makes so much sense 😊
Glad you think so!
Hi Michelle, perfect timing again! I have to revamp a couple of garden beds so your design principles and examples are perfect! The only things I have to be careful of are underground electrical, plumbing and gas lines! 😂❤️🌲🌸🇨🇦
Yup...make sure you get those utilities marked 😀
@@gardeningTLC yes, absolutely. Thanks !
Lots of great info! ❤
Your channel is full of beautiful ideas; I am happy to belong to it❤
Thanks and welcome
Man….so glad I found you! Great information!!! Thanks for sharing your knowledge!❤
You are so welcome
Thanks for another great video!
My pleasure!
Love all the examples!
I love learning from you! Thanks so much.
You are so welcome!
Thank you so much!
You're welcome!
beautiful! thank you.
So informative!!! I loved this video!
Glad it was helpful!
Thanks for sharing ♥
excellent video
Thank you very much!
Great videos
Thanks!
I needed all this information. I like rocks in my beds too, and happen to have one that will be moved to our new flower bed. Your first flower bed gave me the most inspiration for my new bed. Which is in front of a 25 ft deep ravine, and nobody lives behind us. I have daylilies I can transplant to it. So all I need to buy is 6 hydrangaes and 6 veronias. Thanks.
Glad it was helpful!
Yes, I did. We just created an "island" and it took 250 bags of mulch to "mulch" the bed.
Great tips!
Glad you think so!
We have a backyard lawn, roughly 70' wide by 32' deep, patio edge to back fence. Boring rectangular yard with house builder-installed Bermuda grass from five years ago with a bit of a downward slope from the back fence toward the patio. Ugh. Anyway, we would love to have two or three modest sized islands in the back 2/3rds of the lawn for pollinator friendly shrubs, perennials, and annuals. I typed this up at the 2:00 mark, hoping this video will answer some questions for us.
I hope this helps you. Good luck..
Good video!
Glad you enjoyed it
Very helpful.
Thanks Michelle. Great information.
Great video! I moved 3 years ago to my lovely home with several islands that need HELP! This video gave me great tips and ideas for colors, balance and shapes. I have a feeling I’m going to be busy over the next few years redoing them or hiring a professional to do them for me.
Remember you don't have yo don't all at once...
This tutorial was so helpful.
I've wanted to add an island bed in my west-facing back yard since I get poked in the eye ☀️ standing at the kitchen sink to do dishes. (A block or two over, they lost a tree a couple years ago when a mild tornado blew through - it was a zero on the tornado scale.) 😱
My lawn guys have big machines so I checked to see how much space they need to get around. I have an arbor to allow access to the other side.
I really like that "Dr. Seuss" chamaecyparis tree, but they seem difficult to find and online trees are so tiny. Rabbits are a problem so I either have to fence off the shrubs and trees for winter or find plants they won't chew on. (Who am I kidding?!)
Oh this video was so helpful. I have two hugh islands in front of my house and I never knew how to landscape them. You made it so easy . I wish you could help me with mine. Thank you!
You are so welcome!