One of the things i love about these tours is how excited Jack gets escorting the viewers through with him. I get as excited as he does to see it all. And weeding and pruning. Yes!!!
I want to thank you so much for making these videos showing the wonderful gardens of Mackinaw Island. I have been an avid gardener for 65 + years but have never had the opportunity to travel in that area of our country. You take such care to explain each landscape and the details of it and the names of the different plants it is so helpful and informative. I look forward to each and every one of your videos. You are such an exceptional young man. 🌸🌺🌷🌼
I have loved the ambiance of Mackinaw Island since I was a child. I am now 72. Your vision and expertise are impeccable. Please keep up the garden tours we all enjoy seeing your vision come together and mature. You are such an inspiration!
Loving the ‘quaintness’ of these gardens. Even though the gardens are new, they have a sense of evolving over time. This is so much more than just talent and skill you are showing, Jack.
I think Caskey has to be one of my favorites. Those arched bridges and that amazing fence and gate really bring it over the top. And that meadow below, wow!
Your work is just phenomenal!!! The home is beautiful but your work dresses it with elegance and class. Thank you for the videos you share. Please continue to inspire.
Spectacular structure of fence mimicking Mackinaw Bridge....a lot of talent in your family!!!! Love all your landscaping projects ❤️ but this property of Caskey, is my favorite !!!
All of these bricks and construction materials are brought in by the horse and wagons?? Your excitement is contagious! No wonder Laura and Aaron L. love you so much
You are an architect of dreams. The blank canvas photos give us opportunity to realize just how talented you are. I've never seen a stone staircase fronted by a stacked wall that I loved more than the one in the very beginning of the video. I love the large boulders scattered in the mix of dry stack. There are no words for the bridges. I can only imagine the homeowners joy with the landscape you have created for them. Cheers from Montana
Jack your videos make me want to come visit the Island. I looked up information about the Island and it took me to a video of tourists attractions and you have spoiled me! I want to walk through all the gardens you feature and I know that's not possible so from the bottom of my heart I appreciate you showing us these beautiful gardens that we can't see on our on!
Both cottages are stunning. So much perfection so early on. You should be proud of yourself & your team. And your brother! That gate is so beautiful. Thank you. Loved seeing the dry stacked walls & stonework. Plantings look great. Tons of inspiration.💞
I noticed that the daisies there are huge compared to the ones we have in Australia.you have done a fantastic work on the bricks. Yes it has been very tough to cut/ trim all these heavy bricks. Love the way it turned out. Jose from Melbourne Australia
Love your videos. I learned about your channel hrough Garden Answer. Your tours with Laura are some of my absolute favorite Garden Answer videos. I hope your channel gets just as big as Garden Answer!
Jack Barnwell, as am watching ur Mackinaw island videos. It’s like flipping thru story book pages. Listening to you and watching the beautiful scenery is so intriguing. Am from the beautiful pacific tropical island and your scenery is beautiful and different from ours. Am marvel to what am hearing and seeing. Love them! Keep on rolling.
Jack, I’m sure you must think of this, but if not, think of the long lasting imprint your beautiful work is making on the already very historic island. Your designs, stonework and beautiful plantings will become a part of the islands history. What a meaningful legacy you will leave behind, many, many years from now!!! You should be so proud.
Being just west of St. Louis, I was so excited to hear that the brick come from our area. I have some of those bricks and old gas lamp posts from the Gas Light Square. Glad that Lilac Cottage has part of our history. Beautiful work Jack!
So beautiful. I can't believe it. I know the winters are harsh, but man, I would kill to live on this property. The mossy walkways are my favorite. Such thought went into the design of this property. The transformation was unbelievable.
I have decided that my favorite garden styles are from your designs. ..I am going to try to copy the lilac cottage front flower beds next year for my front border. It's gorgeous!
Hi Jack! The cottages and landscaping are beautiful! However, the dry stacked walls and hardscapes are absolutely breathtaking!! Stunning works of art!! I am so envious of your ability!! You should be very very proud! When did you realize landscaping was the field for you! Your amazing! Have a wonderful day!
You come from a very TALENTED family. The creek would be nice to have in the summer to listen to setting on the porch in the day or evening. Happy you show pictures before and after it makes you ready appreciate everything you can see. I can tell it is hard for you to decide what to talk about next by the way you look at items in the garden so many lovely flowers. Love the way you pick and trim things as you walk and talk about it. Stay Safe till the next rime.
Thank you for the tours. I hope you will give us tours of the garden islands in the front of the Grand Hotel and also all the pots you planted this year. Laura from Garden Answers usually does this but this year she is not coming so we will miss it. I love seeing the designs you used there and get so many ideas for my own gardens.
Love Love Love all your gardens , just wish you would show more of your crew going through the process of building those amazing rock stairs and dry stone walls, dry stone bridges ! I would love to know how you came to the plant selection’s for each area instead of seeing just the final result. Thanks 🙏
Oh my, at 15:48.....the front view of this cottage shown here is divine. Love that upper railing along the whole front of the cottage. This is a eye pleasing design. So "yesteryear" and quaint. Everything I'd want in a cottage. Just beautiful!!
Beautiful cottage gardens Jack you and your crew. The stone work in the lawn is one that I would like to do on a small scale. Both garden are Amazingly Beautiful.
This is the disgruntled mailman boyfriend haha. I have been to Michigan once and loved it. I love being outside and love physical labor. So yes me and my amazingly beautiful girlfriend are willing to relocate like she said. :)
This is the disgruntled mailman boyfriend haha. I have been to Michigan once and loved it. I love being outside and love physical labor. So yes me and my amazingly beautiful girlfriend are willing to relocate like she said. :)
I started doing planting with her. Got to love it. Then she showed me your videos and began to love it more. We are talking about visiting Mackinac Island eventually. :)
These tours are great! Thanks for explaining the work processes as you move through the gardens. Also, kudos to your videographer and editor -- excellent work supporting your presentations.
I find myself drooling at every one of these cottage tours. You and your team have done an amazing job with every one. Such an amazing place to spend the summer. I hope the owners of these properties appreciate how lucky they are to be there. Can't wait to see more.
Awesome design and finished art work🌿😊 I love the stone stack bridge and the rock wall ! My fav part of the landscape is at the teal cottage where the natural stone wall wraps around the beautiful flower filled landscape and Heritage River Birch🌿 Does the homeowner use the pond for irrigation?
Jack, you have a beautiful mind. Your knowledge and expertise combined with your artistic vision is evident in each and every project. Thank you for spending the time it takes to make these inspiring videos. Being able to watch them is a welcome respite from the current state of our treasured nation. Peace be with you.
Absolutely amazing!! You and your team are true artist and now I need you to do your magic in my yard. These homes are so beautiful! I just love them all!! Thanks for sharing!!!
Love it that you’ve made a follow up video withe these two cottages.❤️ was able to see a video of you with Laura when the Lilac cottage back garden was just barely new! Im amazed with how beautiful and serene your gardens have become in just a short time!❤️❤️❤️
😍Loved seeing how much the Caskey Cottage landscape has matured since the tour you did in August 2019 with Laura from Garden Answer. You and your team do amazing work! Thanks for sharing.
Beautiful....love looking at gardens that don’t have to contend with herds of deer. My husband loves them wandering around....9 am and there is a fawn in front of the big window. I do manage to garden with lots of Walkers Low catmint as my main planting. Your bridges are amazing!
I've enjoyed your videos for a couple of months now and find my curiousity is moving to landscape design. Is it possible during your tours to provide us with some initial planning basics so we can apply these to our home landscapes? Thank you.
You and your crew do amazing work!!! You make it look like it's so easy to take a piece of land and turn it into a masterpiece of beautiful gardens. It inspires me to get out in my yard and do more, but then I realize how much money it would take and doing it by myself wouldn't be possible. Haha. So I guess I have to stick to one or two big projects a season and maybe by time I am 50 years old my yard will be amazing. 😁🌼🌻 All my visitors think my yard is absolutely gorgeous, but I just keep dreaming of what I want it to look like. I am dying for a greenhouse and a pond or some sort of water feature. Thank you for showing us all the beautiful gardens.
And when you're 50 you'll start all over. I'm nearly 64 and loving retirement and confinement. My long-neglected gardens are starting to be restored. Today I worked on weeding and transplanting a favorite peony (Paula Faye) that couldn't produce a bloom for all the shade cast by surrounding volunteer trees. Thanks to my new "toy," a cordless reciprocating saw, I am taking back my gardens. I ran across some perennials I'd long forgotten about. I'm amazed they're still thriving under those conditions.
great videos, descriptions and pre and post photos give a great idea of the progress. and you do the hand clapping quite a bit 🤣 , its very attention getting...lol..you are really great!!
Give em a good lean~ they look natural with a slight lean to em, and arch out before growing more vertically. They are so graceful and multi-seasonal too
Where to start, the beautiful rustic wood gate, stone bridges, all the beautiful stonework, Daisy Mae Shasta, hydrangeas and all the beautiful plantings!
Jack you do an AMAZING job with your crew!!! I do have to say I have a river birch tree here in Wisconsin and it is the DIRTIEST tree ever!!! It keeps dropping twigs and it is a water hog so really hard to underplant. Any suggestions?
Ferns are good under River birch~ being herbaceous, they can be cut back in fall so that you can do a good spring clean up, but then the fronds cover much of the spring storm mess~~ try lady in red ferns under them… plant lots :)
One of the things i love about these tours is how excited Jack gets escorting the viewers through with him. I get as excited as he does to see it all. And weeding and pruning. Yes!!!
I want to thank you so much for making these videos showing the wonderful gardens of Mackinaw Island. I have been an avid gardener for 65 + years but have never had the opportunity to travel in that area of our country. You take such care to explain each landscape and the details of it and the names of the different plants it is so helpful and informative. I look forward to each and every one of your videos. You are such an exceptional young man. 🌸🌺🌷🌼
Wow! Thanks so much!!
I have loved the ambiance of Mackinaw Island since I was a child. I am now 72. Your vision and expertise are impeccable. Please keep up the garden tours we all enjoy seeing your vision come together and mature. You are such an inspiration!
Loving the ‘quaintness’ of these gardens. Even though the gardens are new, they have a sense of evolving over time. This is so much more than just talent and skill you are showing, Jack.
Can see how exceedingly proud you are of this design and your team, and you should be! Utterly stunning
I think Caskey has to be one of my favorites. Those arched bridges and that amazing fence and gate really bring it over the top. And that meadow below, wow!
You and your brother are extremely talented! Wow!
Your work is just phenomenal!!! The home is beautiful but your work dresses it with elegance and class. Thank you for the videos you share. Please continue to inspire.
The houses and all of the landscape is just mindblowing.
Spectacular structure of fence mimicking Mackinaw Bridge....a lot of talent in your family!!!!
Love all your landscaping projects ❤️ but this property of Caskey, is my favorite !!!
Jack. You make me wish I had money so I could live where you were my garden designer. Your end product is to die for. Tfs cheers
I do garden design all over the country! Where are you located?
Beautiful gardens.
All of these bricks and construction materials are brought in by the horse and wagons?? Your excitement is contagious! No wonder Laura and Aaron L. love you so much
Thank you for bringing the natural beauty to Mackinac Island. You and your brother are an excellent team. The wood gates are unique.
So beautiful
You are an architect of dreams. The blank canvas photos give us opportunity to realize just how talented you are. I've never seen a stone staircase fronted by a stacked wall that I loved more than the one in the very beginning of the video. I love the large boulders scattered in the mix of dry stack. There are no words for the bridges. I can only imagine the homeowners joy with the landscape you have created for them. Cheers from Montana
Little brother did a great job! I love those fences
Make me chuckle when you weed as you go😅...looks so familiar
Jack your videos make me want to come visit the Island. I looked up information about the Island and it took me to a video of tourists attractions and you have spoiled me! I want to walk through all the gardens you feature and I know that's not possible so from the bottom of my heart I appreciate you showing us these beautiful gardens that we can't see on our on!
It is possible!! Next year, we will once again host the Grand Garden Show- an exquisite event with Grand Hotel and Proven Winners.
You and your team are so talented. All of your landscaping looks amazing . You have added so much beauty to the Island. Love these tours.
Beautiful beautiful gardens. They are so dreamy. Can't wait to see the Lilac Cottage when it's all done.
Love seeing these beautiful old "cottages" and the wonderful garden design that you and your team are doing.
Both cottages are stunning. So much perfection so early on. You should be proud of yourself & your team. And your brother! That gate is so beautiful. Thank you. Loved seeing the dry stacked walls & stonework. Plantings look great. Tons of inspiration.💞
GOD bless you Mr Jack
Nice job 👍👌👏
Thanks allot for sharing 😌💕
Stay safe
Thank you Jack. Gardens are a soothing retreat and yours are an inspiration.
I love all the river birches! Very beautiful Jack!
I noticed that the daisies there are huge compared to the ones we have in Australia.you have done a fantastic work on the bricks. Yes it has been very tough to cut/ trim all these heavy bricks. Love the way it turned out. Jose from Melbourne Australia
Love your videos. I learned about your channel hrough Garden Answer. Your tours with Laura are some of my absolute favorite Garden Answer videos. I hope your channel gets just as big as Garden Answer!
I love the colour of the cottage!!! The gardens are gorgeous
Jack Barnwell, as am watching ur Mackinaw island videos. It’s like flipping thru story book pages. Listening to you and watching the beautiful scenery is so intriguing. Am from the beautiful pacific tropical island and your scenery is beautiful and different from ours. Am marvel to what am hearing and seeing. Love them! Keep on rolling.
Jack, I’m sure you must think of this, but if not, think of the long lasting imprint your beautiful work is making on the already very historic island. Your designs, stonework and beautiful plantings will become a part of the islands history. What a meaningful legacy you will leave behind, many, many years from now!!! You should be so proud.
Thank you!
Being just west of St. Louis, I was so excited to hear that the brick come from our area. I have some of those bricks and old gas lamp posts from the Gas Light Square. Glad that Lilac Cottage has part of our history. Beautiful work Jack!
Beautiful cottages and your gardens are incredible Jack.
So beautiful. I can't believe it. I know the winters are harsh, but man, I would kill to live on this property. The mossy walkways are my favorite. Such thought went into the design of this property. The transformation was unbelievable.
Thank you so much!!
I have decided that my favorite garden styles are from your designs. ..I am going to try to copy the lilac cottage front flower beds next year for my front border. It's gorgeous!
Thanks! Let us know how it goes!!
You and your team are very artistic,looks like a lot a peace and art!
Just planted a multi stemmed birch with hydrangea and hosta. A corner of an English garden inspired by Jack Barnwell!
I’m so honored~ 😊
I think I've found your secret ingredient: ground cover, ground cover, ground cover... You're a gem.
Hi Jack! The cottages and landscaping are beautiful! However, the dry stacked walls and hardscapes are absolutely breathtaking!! Stunning works of art!! I am so envious of your ability!! You should be very very proud! When did you realize landscaping was the field for you! Your amazing! Have a wonderful day!
Your videos make the world happier!
Wonderful work your doing Jack. It is a joy to see all you do on the island and I'm hoping come come there in 2022. Thanks for sharing with us.
Love these garden tours ❤❤❤
Your excitement for the landscape and the completed work energizes me, lol Good job!!
You come from a very TALENTED family. The creek would be nice to have in the summer to listen to setting on the porch in the day or evening. Happy you show pictures before and after it makes you ready appreciate everything you can see. I can tell it is hard for you to decide what to talk about next by the way you look at items in the garden so many lovely flowers. Love the way you pick and trim things as you walk and talk about it. Stay Safe till the next rime.
Wow. The man is a magician! Difficult to comment when you got no words!
Thank you for the tours. I hope you will give us tours of the garden islands in the front of the Grand Hotel and also all the pots you planted this year. Laura from Garden Answers usually does this but this year she is not coming so we will miss it. I love seeing the designs you used there and get so many ideas for my own gardens.
Love both cottages.
Love Love Love all your gardens , just wish you would show more of your crew going through the process of building those amazing rock stairs and dry stone walls, dry stone bridges ! I would love to know how you came to the plant selection’s for each area instead of seeing just the final result. Thanks 🙏
Will do!
Oh my, at 15:48.....the front view of this cottage shown here is divine. Love that upper railing along the whole front of the cottage. This is a eye pleasing design. So "yesteryear" and quaint. Everything I'd want in a cottage. Just beautiful!!
Beautiful cottage gardens Jack you and your crew. The stone work in the lawn is one that I would like to do on a small scale. Both garden are Amazingly Beautiful.
Wow you did that? Nice!
Your work is amazing hope someday I can come see in person. Thanks so much for the beautiful tours. 🌺🌿🌾😊
I love your enthusiasm! I wish you could landscape my home!😃
I think my boyfriend started to like gardening because I was showing him your videos! Stunning work.
That is great to hear! Does he need a job? :)
@@JackBarnwellDesign yes, he is currently a disgruntled postal worker. We can both relocate ;)
This is the disgruntled mailman boyfriend haha. I have been to Michigan once and loved it. I love being outside and love physical labor. So yes me and my amazingly beautiful girlfriend are willing to relocate like she said. :)
This is the disgruntled mailman boyfriend haha. I have been to Michigan once and loved it. I love being outside and love physical labor. So yes me and my amazingly beautiful girlfriend are willing to relocate like she said. :)
I started doing planting with her. Got to love it. Then she showed me your videos and began to love it more. We are talking about visiting Mackinac Island eventually. :)
Inspiring! thank you. Nice for us out in the dry, smoky west to see healthy, well watered gardens thriving🙂
These tours are great! Thanks for explaining the work processes as you move through the gardens. Also, kudos to your videographer and editor -- excellent work supporting your presentations.
I look forward to your cottage tours... I just love your style of gardening.. Thank you for sharing.
These houses need full time gardeners alone to maintain yards alone for each houses. Yes these garden are beautiful wonderful and handsome too.
I love all the designs but most of all I LOVE the excitement you have and that just shows how much you love nature!!!
I find myself drooling at every one of these cottage tours. You and your team have done an amazing job with every one. Such an amazing place to spend the summer. I hope the owners of these properties appreciate how lucky they are to be there. Can't wait to see more.
Congrats 🥳
I really have to mention how proud you sound when you talk about your team...
You all make beautiful spaces
You and your team totally deserve to be proud of your hard work!! It is absolutely stunning! Thank you for sharing and I would love to see updates!
Exquisite! Love this video and your work.
Awesome design and finished art work🌿😊 I love the stone stack bridge and the rock wall ! My fav part of the landscape is at the teal cottage where the natural stone wall wraps around the beautiful flower filled landscape and Heritage River Birch🌿
Does the homeowner use the pond for irrigation?
So gorgeous and inspiring 🤩
Love the garden tours that you take us on! The landscape designs are natural and intriguing.Another great job! Thanks again.
So amazing how you are able to incorporate old and new. So lovely!
Awesome information 👏! Thanks for everything you do!
Jack, you have a beautiful mind.
Your knowledge and expertise combined with your artistic vision is evident in each and every project.
Thank you for spending the time it takes to make these inspiring videos. Being able to watch them is a welcome respite from the current state of our treasured nation.
Peace be with you.
So nice, I watched it twice!
Absolutely amazing!! You and your team are true artist and now I need you to do your magic in my yard. These homes are so beautiful! I just love them all!! Thanks for sharing!!!
Everything is gorgeous! I would think the inside of these cottages are as beautiful as your designs in landscaping!
Just amazing work your crew does & all by hand. They don’t need to go to a gym as they get a physical workout at work
Love it that you’ve made a follow up video withe these two cottages.❤️ was able to see a video of you with Laura when the Lilac cottage back garden was just barely new! Im amazed with how beautiful and serene your gardens have become in just a short time!❤️❤️❤️
Gorgeous. Love what you did with the irish moss. Thanks for demonstrating how it regrows.
Just beautiful!
😍Loved seeing how much the Caskey Cottage landscape has matured since the tour you did in August 2019 with Laura from Garden Answer. You and your team do amazing work! Thanks for sharing.
Oh if I could build that stone bridge I'd be a very happy camper love it! Jack do you come to NJ?
Beautiful....love looking at gardens that don’t have to contend with herds of deer. My husband loves them wandering around....9 am and there is a fawn in front of the big window. I do manage to garden with lots of Walkers Low catmint as my main planting. Your bridges are amazing!
I've enjoyed your videos for a couple of months now and find my curiousity is moving to landscape design. Is it possible during your tours to provide us with some initial planning basics so we can apply these to our home landscapes? Thank you.
Amazing beauty you’ve created! Can’t imagine the hard work...
Stunning !!
Gorgeous!
You and your crew do amazing work!!! You make it look like it's so easy to take a piece of land and turn it into a masterpiece of beautiful gardens. It inspires me to get out in my yard and do more, but then I realize how much money it would take and doing it by myself wouldn't be possible. Haha. So I guess I have to stick to one or two big projects a season and maybe by time I am 50 years old my yard will be amazing. 😁🌼🌻 All my visitors think my yard is absolutely gorgeous, but I just keep dreaming of what I want it to look like. I am dying for a greenhouse and a pond or some sort of water feature.
Thank you for showing us all the beautiful gardens.
And when you're 50 you'll start all over.
I'm nearly 64 and loving retirement and confinement. My long-neglected gardens are starting to be restored. Today I worked on weeding and transplanting a favorite peony (Paula Faye) that couldn't produce a bloom for all the shade cast by surrounding volunteer trees. Thanks to my new "toy," a cordless reciprocating saw, I am taking back my gardens. I ran across some perennials I'd long forgotten about. I'm amazed they're still thriving under those conditions.
great videos, descriptions and pre and post photos give a great idea of the progress. and you do the hand clapping quite a bit 🤣 , its very attention getting...lol..you are really great!!
Sorry about that! Silly habit I guess~
It’s a matter of financing. When I win lottery will be looking you up. Love your work.
Beautiful! Love your tours great tips and beautiful design.
Awesome tour
My tall son and husband just got to meet Jack Barnwell on the island today. Wish I could have been there!
Love this!
Exquisite!!
Love it
Jack, what flowers can I plant that the bears that live near me will avoid?????
I had no idea you could plant birches so close to the house! I think I might do the same thing
Give em a good lean~ they look natural with a slight lean to em, and arch out before growing more vertically. They are so graceful and multi-seasonal too
amazing
Wow amazing. I can’t help wonder, What do people that live here do for a living?
Ty!
Where to start, the beautiful rustic wood gate, stone bridges, all the beautiful stonework, Daisy Mae Shasta, hydrangeas and all the beautiful plantings!
I'm going to check out Daisy Mae. I hope she grows in zone 4b.
Both properties are just Beautiful.!! Curious to know how old the landscape is now at Caskey.?
About 2.5-3 years old
@@JackBarnwellDesign Amazing how fast plants take off. Look forward to the next garden tour.
Jack you do an AMAZING job with your crew!!! I do have to say I have a river birch tree here in Wisconsin and it is the DIRTIEST tree ever!!! It keeps dropping twigs and it is a water hog so really hard to underplant. Any suggestions?
Ferns are good under River birch~ being herbaceous, they can be cut back in fall so that you can do a good spring clean up, but then the fronds cover much of the spring storm mess~~ try lady in red ferns under them… plant lots :)
Jack Barnwell Design thank you so much!