So inspiring! I live in Florida so I can’t have many of the plants you have ! But I try to have a costal cottage feel . I’m only 2 years into gardening so I’m excited to see where it will take me and my garden in the future. I’m a big environmentalist, and gardening kinda goes hand and hand with that ! I love composting and eating fresh veggies that I grew ! Thank you so much for sharing ! It really brightens my day and clams me . ✨🌱🌾🌳🌴🌲🐌♻️🌏
We have aphids as well, so we started getting Ladybugs every year to cut the numbers down. I love your garden and the changes you are making to it this year.
You have a beautiful garden! I've watched you for a year or two now and enjoy each time I join you on your yard tour. Last year was my first time to plant purple hyacinth bean vine. I fell in love with that interesting vine. The reddish-purple stems, dark, heart-shaped leaves, lavender flowers, and purple beans in fall. It's such an interesting vine. I gave seeds to all my friends too. I have it this year, but am also trying cup and saucer vine. Thank you so much for filming and editing. I know it takes a lot of time. We enjoy it so much.
Good morning Elizabeth! What a wonderful message to read. Thank you for taking the time to say all of this. It truly means a lot to me. Garden friends that share seeds are the best! 💜
Hi Laura! Oh my word everything looks healthy. Your Tulips are Beautiful. I always have fun running around your yard. I have been so busy cleaning up for summer. I Love, Love, Love your Greenhouse. Happy Gardening to my sweet friend remember to take Breaks. Thank you for the wonderful tour. So until next time God Bless you and your family and have a Blessed evening and stay safe my dear and Special Friend.
I do like what you did with the hedge out in the front. It opens it up and now you can focus on your beautiful cottage flowers on the other side. Everything is looking wonderful!
Hi Laura…I love your videos….not only are your projects fun to watch but you make me giggle about things you say….Robins nest is an apartment in the sky! Love it! Today was a beautiful day in my garden too and I wasn’t in a hurry to get my to do list done but instead just enjoyed being outside and puttering around and appreciating all that my eyes can see. Have a wonderful spring!
Hi Sharyl! Thank you so much! Lots of times I cut the silly or goofy things I say out. But, it is who I am so I’m wanting to just let that come though. 😆💜 I love those kinds of garden days. Then of course a pile of laundry inside. 😆 hope you have a beautiful Spring! 🌷
Gardens are always a work in progress, and your cottage garden is lovely, my style totally… thank your for sharing with us…you have no idea the inspiration you give. Thank you. Love the boxwood topiary! I love topiary p, I have 3 double ball boxwood, one I grew from a cutting! And 2 chicken topiary…Love all topiary!
I love the vegetable garden raised beds being moved because the view of them from inside the greenhouse is so nice. It does look so much more cohesive now! Great swap of the maple and the obelisk as well. The fountain is now a true focal point! Love these changes... and isn't that what gardening is all about? I'm always shifting and relocating plants, trees, shrubs and perennials too! So fun! Great job! ~ Stephanie NJ Zone 7a
BEAUTIFUL GARDENS and PLANTINGS! Gorgeous and very creative! LOVE YOUR CHANNEL and all your gardening wisdom! YOU ARE ADORABLE! I listen to other gardening channels, where they use the Latin name for the plants they grow, so already they've lost me. You are so humble in your approach and intelligent in your gardening advice. Very easy to listen to and I am so happy you're putting out videos. If I recall correctly, we are in the same gardening zone, I'm in Maryland 7a and 7b. In the fall, I plant pansies a plant that winters really well, so they are now in bloom in the spring. In the heat of the summer, they'll die off so then I plant a summer annual. Not sure what I'll plant this summer.
I was soooo impressed with the way you groomed your topiary’s a while back, I would have totally butchered mine , I only had one at my old house and I let it grow in to it’s original shape because I was so intimidated
I so appreciate it! Thank you! I was having some anxiety pruning today. I just held my breath and did it. 😆 try on something that isn’t too pricey Amy. You’ll get the feel for it! 💜
The amethyst falls wisteria is truly a beast! I have one as well that I dug up and didnt treat very well, it was even uprooted by a wind storm we had and replanted again for the 3rd time and right now its blooming and regrowing a ton of new vines! Love it so much!
Everything is looking so beautiful. You and another girl have inspired me to set up some raised beds and plant some boxwood in my flower box. Umpteen years ago, there were boxwood in that flower box. Thank you for the garden tour.
Everything looks lovely Laura! I’ve admired every phase of your garden since we’ve met, but I must say, that this one is my favorite so far🥰. This growing season is starting out in a great way!
LOVE, LOVE your garden tours!! You inspire me so much. I’m getting a later start this year. Weather has me not being motivated. Keep up the good work. JUST BEAUTIFUL 🌸
I have an Acropolis clematis that needs to be cut down to the ground in the spring. I'm amazed how quickly it grows. I cut it back a week ago and it's already over a ft. tall I can actually see a difference from day to day. Last year was a terrible year in the garden between the heat and drought we had very few blooms and even the drought tolerant plants suffered . It seems like this year is going to be much better !!!
Isn’t it incredible? I feel like one day I walked out there was nothing, the next day BOOM, time to tie it up. I have fingers crossed for a mild and well watered Summer! 💜🙏🏼
@@HowsItGrowing all is well here. How's your parents doing? I'm assuming all is well since your Dad is happy to inherit some of your plants and raised beds. 🥰
Hi. Nice to have you back. Hope all is well. Love all the changes you’ve made so far. I do wonder if you prune your climbing roses, and, if so, which ones, when, and how severely?
Thank you so much! 💜 I do. I prune all of my roses. Fairly aggressively. If left to just grow they will get all gangly and weak branches. My best recommendation would be to look up climbing rose pruning on RUclips. Especially from English gardeners, or English rose breeders like David Austin. I have found them very helpful to watch.
I think you should just flatten down the top of the stump and use it as a base for a pot. It is a really nice use of something that is natural in your garden.
@How’s It Growing? Or temporarily upend a decorative pot and place over the stump til the stump has been removed. I've done the same with a small juniper stump in my yard so I don't trip over it.
Omg! Beautiful landscape! Just a note - some roses are more susceptible to pests & diseases than others but there may be something going on with that spirea. I had 6 at my other house with roses and never had aphids. I had the same problem with a $2 salvia plant that I planted & discovered too late was loaded with earwigs in soil and all hell broke loose lol!
Oh yes, absolutely! I’ve been growing roses for over 20 years, believe it or not. 💜 So many have come and gone with the changes I’ve made here. The spirea is in the rose family, so it’s definitely something they are drawn to in general. I don’t mind them being there rather than the rose, so I don’t even try to troubleshoot it. They are welcome to stay on that shrub if they leave my roses alone. 🥰
Thank you! The sundial is very old. It’s by Rowe Pottery but from the 80’s and I just added it onto a concrete pedestal. The pineapples are by Campania International. I buy those pieces from garden-fountains.com They often run great sales of 15-20% off!
Enjoyed your tour of the yard. Where did you purchase you olive tree from. I had gotten a Spanish olive tree for my husband and it kind of died back to the ground.
Everything looks great. So much progress! Question: Do the offspring of the Camelot Cream foxglove also bloom the first year? I was wondering if that trait would transfer to the offspring, Thanks!!
Hello!! Thank you! Yes, I have found that they do! I have a couple babies that are shooting out bloom stalks right now. With that said, I also have a ton of teeny tiny seedlings that are nowhere close to that maturity popping up. So I’m more inclined to say yes, but only if they get to that growth point soon enough in the season.
Thanks Sue! Aren’t those so pretty? They have that Wakefield look, but believe it or not, I got them at Home Depot! I don’t think they are carrying them still, it was years ago now. I look every season I would love to snag more. 💜
Hey Laura. Did you transplant the Japanese Maple from a container? I have one in a container for many years and it's doing well but I want to put it in the ground. It would be in full sun. Do you think it will do well? I'm zone 6 in Hunterdon County. Thanks for any tips or advice you might have.
Hi Marilyn! I actually just moved it over about 10 feet. It was closer to the greenhouse in the ground. In general most trees would do much better in the ground to be able to spread its roots. For a Japanese maple the light can be tricky. They mostly appreciate some dappled shade or to not be in full sun during the hottest parts of the day and may scorch and suffer in full sun. This one, a bloodgood, can tolerate a bit more sun, but I’ve read the color isn’t as vibrant as it would be in more shade. I’d try to give it a bit of shade or to plant under the canopy of other trees if you can.
So inspiring! I live in Florida so I can’t have many of the plants you have ! But I try to have a costal cottage feel . I’m only 2 years into gardening so I’m excited to see where it will take me and my garden in the future. I’m a big environmentalist, and gardening kinda goes hand and hand with that ! I love composting and eating fresh veggies that I grew !
Thank you so much for sharing ! It really brightens my day and clams me . ✨🌱🌾🌳🌴🌲🐌♻️🌏
So glad they are not dying from all off neglected. With more love they'll show love soon enough
I so enjoy your "commentary" as you take us around the garden - all delightful!
We have aphids as well, so we started getting Ladybugs every year to cut the numbers down. I love your garden and the changes you are making to it this year.
You have a beautiful garden! I've watched you for a year or two now and enjoy each time I join you on your yard tour. Last year was my first time to plant purple hyacinth bean vine. I fell in love with that interesting vine. The reddish-purple stems, dark, heart-shaped leaves, lavender flowers, and purple beans in fall. It's such an interesting vine. I gave seeds to all my friends too. I have it this year, but am also trying cup and saucer vine. Thank you so much for filming and editing. I know it takes a lot of time. We enjoy it so much.
Good morning Elizabeth! What a wonderful message to read. Thank you for taking the time to say all of this. It truly means a lot to me. Garden friends that share seeds are the best! 💜
Hi Laura! Oh my word everything looks healthy. Your Tulips are Beautiful. I always have fun running around your yard. I have been so busy cleaning up for summer. I Love, Love, Love your Greenhouse. Happy Gardening to my sweet friend remember to take Breaks. Thank you for the wonderful tour. So until next time God Bless you and your family and have a Blessed evening and stay safe my dear and Special Friend.
I do like what you did with the hedge out in the front. It opens it up and now you can focus on your beautiful cottage flowers on the other side. Everything is looking wonderful!
It all looks so good!!! So excited to see what you'll be doing on the driveway area when you move the beds. Always so fun watching your videos!
Such a pretty beautiful garden!
Hi Laura…I love your videos….not only are your projects fun to watch but you make me giggle about things you say….Robins nest is an apartment in the sky! Love it! Today was a beautiful day in my garden too and I wasn’t in a hurry to get my to do list done but instead just enjoyed being outside and puttering around and appreciating all that my eyes can see. Have a wonderful spring!
Hi Sharyl! Thank you so much! Lots of times I cut the silly or goofy things I say out. But, it is who I am so I’m wanting to just let that come though. 😆💜 I love those kinds of garden days. Then of course a pile of laundry inside. 😆 hope you have a beautiful Spring! 🌷
I was able to get my hand on two Café o lait this year. I´m so excited. 😁 I love your garden. Thank´s for the tour. Love from Germany 💕🌱🌷🌱💕
Yay! You will love them! Thank you for watching! 😀💜
Gardens are always a work in progress, and your cottage garden is lovely, my style totally… thank your for sharing with us…you have no idea the inspiration you give. Thank you. Love the boxwood topiary! I love topiary p, I have 3 double ball boxwood, one I grew from a cutting! And 2 chicken topiary…Love all topiary!
Comments like this make my heart so happy. Thank YOU 💜
I love the vegetable garden raised beds being moved because the view of them from inside the greenhouse is so nice. It does look so much more cohesive now! Great swap of the maple and the obelisk as well. The fountain is now a true focal point! Love these changes... and isn't that what gardening is all about? I'm always shifting and relocating plants, trees, shrubs and perennials too! So fun! Great job!
~ Stephanie NJ Zone 7a
Yay, HI Laura, Happy spring 🌞🌻🦋🐞🐝🌸🌷🪻
Happy Spring! Thank you! 💜🌷💜🌷
You are my inspiration!
BEAUTIFUL GARDENS and PLANTINGS! Gorgeous and very creative! LOVE YOUR CHANNEL and all your gardening wisdom! YOU ARE ADORABLE! I listen to other gardening channels, where they use the Latin name for the plants they grow, so already they've lost me.
You are so humble in your approach and intelligent in your gardening advice. Very easy to listen to and I am so happy you're putting out videos.
If I recall correctly, we are in the same gardening zone, I'm in Maryland 7a and 7b. In the fall, I plant pansies a plant that winters really well, so they are now in bloom in the spring. In the heat of the summer, they'll die off so then I plant a summer annual. Not sure what I'll plant this summer.
Laura looking forward to seeing all the plantings in your new raised beds! Thanks for the spring garden tour!
Thank you for the tour of your beautiful garden ❤ and for sharing some of your ideas awesome 👌 👏
So so pretty! I love the way you change things up. I do that too! It makes gardening extra fun. And that sink! Still gorgeous.
Beautiful!
I was soooo impressed with the way you groomed your topiary’s a while back, I would have totally butchered mine , I only had one at my old house and I let it grow in to it’s original shape because I was so intimidated
I so appreciate it! Thank you! I was having some anxiety pruning today. I just held my breath and did it. 😆 try on something that isn’t too pricey Amy. You’ll get the feel for it! 💜
Love Peter Wakefield pottery
Everything looks beautiful. Loving spring along with you.
Thank you Lisa! I’m excited for a great season. Thank you for being here! Happy Spring! 🌷
The amethyst falls wisteria is truly a beast! I have one as well that I dug up and didnt treat very well, it was even uprooted by a wind storm we had and replanted again for the 3rd time and right now its blooming and regrowing a ton of new vines! Love it so much!
Isn’t it the best? The best and the beast! 💜😆 I love it!!
Everything is looking so beautiful. You and another girl have inspired me to set up some raised beds and plant some boxwood in my flower box. Umpteen years ago, there were boxwood in that flower box. Thank you for the garden tour.
I love going on tour in your garden and greenhouse. It makes my day. Thank you! 🍃💗🍃
So nice thank you very much!!!!
Everything looks lovely Laura! I’ve admired every phase of your garden since we’ve met, but I must say, that this one is my favorite so far🥰. This growing season is starting out in a great way!
Thanks Donna! 😀😀 I’m feeling really good this season. I’m so glad when I see you on here. You must be so sick of hearing me blabber. 😂💜
LOVE, LOVE your garden tours!!
You inspire me so much. I’m getting a later start this year. Weather has me not being motivated. Keep up the good work. JUST BEAUTIFUL 🌸
Enjoyed the video and the excitement you generate 🙌💖
Tammy, Thank you! 😀💜 Good morning!
I have an Acropolis clematis that needs to be cut down to the ground in the spring. I'm amazed how quickly it grows. I cut it back a week ago and it's already over a ft. tall I can actually see a difference from day to day. Last year was a terrible year in the garden between the heat and drought we had very few blooms and even the drought tolerant plants suffered . It seems like this year is going to be much better !!!
Isn’t it incredible? I feel like one day I walked out there was nothing, the next day BOOM, time to tie it up. I have fingers crossed for a mild and well watered Summer! 💜🙏🏼
Thank you for a tour of your beautiful gardens. Love everything you've done and are doing. Happy spring 🌷🌼
Cynthia my friend! Hello and happy Spring! So good to see you. I hope you and your family snd doing wonderful! 💜🌷
@@HowsItGrowing all is well here. How's your parents doing? I'm assuming all is well since your Dad is happy to inherit some of your plants and raised beds. 🥰
Everything looks so good !
Lovely garden
Thank you! 💜
Good job 👏
Hi. Nice to have you back. Hope all is well. Love all the changes you’ve made so far. I do wonder if you prune your climbing roses, and, if so, which ones, when, and how severely?
Thank you so much! 💜 I do. I prune all of my roses. Fairly aggressively. If left to just grow they will get all gangly and weak branches. My best recommendation would be to look up climbing rose pruning on RUclips. Especially from English gardeners, or English rose breeders like David Austin. I have found them very helpful to watch.
I forgot to ask you where you purchased those green dahlia stakes? And do you add Biotone when you plant them? They are gorgeous, aren’t they!!
Funny how you mentioned the floppy new boxwood growth! I have one in a pot on my porch and it looks like that!
Definitely make sure it’s not dry, and givd a drink if so. But, that fresh growth always looks floppy for a few days.
I think you should just flatten down the top of the stump and use it as a base for a pot. It is a really nice use of something that is natural in your garden.
I would, but we are planning on putting a small pond here and stepping stones to the greenhouse. I agree. 💜
@How’s It Growing? Or temporarily upend a decorative pot and place over the stump til the stump has been removed. I've done the same with a small juniper stump in my yard so I don't trip over it.
It’s beautiful even with your ‘neglect’ ❤
Awe, I appreciated it. Thank you!
I loved the George and Weezie reference. I wonder how many of your viewers will get it.
I missed it altogether- LOL. The Jeffersons are on TV in my area each night.
Omg! Beautiful landscape!
Just a note - some roses are more susceptible to pests & diseases than others but there may be something going on with that spirea. I had 6 at my other house with roses and never had aphids.
I had the same problem with a $2 salvia plant that I planted & discovered too late was loaded with earwigs in soil and all hell broke loose lol!
Oh yes, absolutely! I’ve been growing roses for over 20 years, believe it or not. 💜 So many have come and gone with the changes I’ve made here. The spirea is in the rose family, so it’s definitely something they are drawn to in general. I don’t mind them being there rather than the rose, so I don’t even try to troubleshoot it. They are welcome to stay on that shrub if they leave my roses alone. 🥰
I love that small tuteur that you have in that basket. Where did you get that? Everything looks lovely!
The willow one?
Love your videos anyway but your “thanks for your service” to your spirea made me absolutely laugh out loud! Thank you.
😆😆 honestly, when I was editing the video, I laughed. I’m such s dork. Thank you for watching!
So beautiful Wow 😍❤👍👍👍👍👍🌹🌹🌹☝
I love your minty green obelisks. Did you build them?
Thank you! Yes my husband made them for me. 🥰 he’s a keeper
Bought my first cafe au lait this year. It’s budding and I’m hoping for the best.
What's the name of that ant spray? Our yard gets covered with hills every year and the ant traps and de just don't make much of a dent. Thanks
Can I ask where you found your sun dial and your pineapple/artichoke statues? Your garden is beautiful.
Thank you! The sundial is very old. It’s by Rowe Pottery but from the 80’s and I just added it onto a concrete pedestal. The pineapples are by Campania International. I buy those pieces from garden-fountains.com They often run great sales of 15-20% off!
Enjoyed your tour of the yard. Where did you purchase you olive tree from. I had gotten a Spanish olive tree for my husband and it kind of died back to the ground.
I think this would probably go dormant or die if I kept it outside over winter. I got it from Garden Goods Direct online. They have a great selection.
Everything looks great. So much progress! Question: Do the offspring of the Camelot Cream foxglove also bloom the first year? I was wondering if that trait would transfer to the offspring, Thanks!!
Hello!! Thank you! Yes, I have found that they do! I have a couple babies that are shooting out bloom stalks right now. With that said, I also have a ton of teeny tiny seedlings that are nowhere close to that maturity popping up. So I’m more inclined to say yes, but only if they get to that growth point soon enough in the season.
@@HowsItGrowing Thanks for the info!
Love your gardens! Are the two matching pots at the bottom of your steps Wakefield pots? If not I would love to know who makes them.
Thanks Sue! Aren’t those so pretty? They have that Wakefield look, but believe it or not, I got them at Home Depot! I don’t think they are carrying them still, it was years ago now. I look every season I would love to snag more. 💜
@@HowsItGrowing Thanks so much. They are so pretty!
Hey Laura. Did you transplant the Japanese Maple from a container? I have one in a container for many years and it's doing well but I want to put it in the ground. It would be in full sun. Do you think it will do well? I'm zone 6 in Hunterdon County. Thanks for any tips or advice you might have.
Hi Marilyn! I actually just moved it over about 10 feet. It was closer to the greenhouse in the ground. In general most trees would do much better in the ground to be able to spread its roots. For a Japanese maple the light can be tricky. They mostly appreciate some dappled shade or to not be in full sun during the hottest parts of the day and may scorch and suffer in full sun. This one, a bloodgood, can tolerate a bit more sun, but I’ve read the color isn’t as vibrant as it would be in more shade. I’d try to give it a bit of shade or to plant under the canopy of other trees if you can.
My spirea is the same way. Nothing I do helps get rid of them. I have tried everything lol
Haha! I don’t even try, they can stay if they leave my roses alone. 😆
Oooooooh that clematis ❤
what kind of drip do you use and where did you buy it?
I use DIG drip tubing from Home Depot. I like it a lot. It’s flexible, but strong.
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where did you get the basket? I am looking so hard for one.
Hi! Which one?
@@HowsItGrowing hello ! the one you described as well weather, it has a plant in it but now I can't remember which plant.
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The dahlias will hide the best side of your greenhouse.
I think this too. I’m reconsidering where they go.