Before and After....Our Cottage Garden Story
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- Опубликовано: 6 сен 2024
- This video shows the Before and After story of how our garden has transformed over twelve years. We were looking through old photos and couldn't believe the change. Hope you find it inspiring.
The garden is now Danu's Irish Herb Garden and you can find out more about us at www.danusirish...
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Have a lovely week and thank you for watching xx
Your comment, "The land didn't know it was loved", touches my heart. It is exactly how I feel when I have to move to a new place. I encourage and appreciate the land and plants and in return they show me love.
Thank you, sister of my heart ❤️
Your dogs are so cute. They stay close to you. Your place looked almost as ugly as mine did over 13 years ago. Yes. It takes years for nature to recover (even if you are trying to help).
When we lived deeper into the country, mother grew many kinds of flowers, trees, and a big kitchen garden, My Grandfather lived on the much larger farm next to ours. He grew fields of corn, tobacco, hemp, and many kitchen gardens. He had a large fruit tree orchard, bees (and bee hives), and his magical (to me) herb garden. There were also cows, mules, chickens, ducks, rabbits, dogs, and cats. Both farms were wonderful places to be as a child. With the passing of my grandfather, and later my parents, both farms disappeared. A large Public School building now sits on a good part of what was my grandfather's farm.
However, I now live in a growing subdivision. My house was the first house built here; and, a full acre of land came with my house (mostly hillside). There was no grass here when I moved in. There was the edge of the woods next to my drive way (a small part of the woods is mine). It has taken me over 13 years to get enough trees established to have a little shade in my front yard, back yard, and on the half acre garden plot (which now has one pear tree and one apple tree doing very well on it). If every tree I planted had lived and grown, I would have a fruit orchard and herb garden there now. I just keep trying. When something that I planted does not live and thrive (I don't buy that again, and try something else). Now that I know my land better, it is time to start building raised gardens. It has to be raised gardens; because, we have flash flooding that washes away top soil and many things; Plus flooding does bring in things that I may not want (like trash, poison ivy, and ground ivy).
The ground ivy is a beautiful plant. Someone told me that the leaves are used to make tea. Do you grow ground ivy with the round lacy-like leaves, and dark blue/purple flowers? It has a strong smell when walked on or cut. It thrives here, is greener than grass, and is a great ground cover. I think it may be a wild native plant. It grew on both my parents'and grandfather's farms (wild under the shade trees).
Bringing a tear to my eye seeing how much you have loved the land back to life
My word - what a night and day difference in the 'before' pictures and how things are now. Thank you so much for sharing those pictures with us! You two put in many hundreds of hours of work. You definitely have a magical garden to relax and enjoy a cup of tea in. It's beyond beautiful.
I thought of Orchney when I saw the before pictures. Ochney is beautiful to. Not that I've been there. ❤from the Jade isles of new zealand
Looks like Heaven on Earth Terri and Lol. Time, patience and love cures the lost and the barren; beautifully done👏👏👏🥳🌻💞.
I woke this morning to see two poppy blooms in my garden.....I was straight out the door to greet them🥳🤣.
It’s Sunday morning and I’m propped up in bed having my morning coffee and breakfast cookie enjoying Teri’s tour of the Irish garden. Pure bliss…. ❤️🙏🏻😁
Love Terry's garden ! Terry is beautiful and loving person 💖
Just so beautful to see Mother Nature free to thrive
This was such an amazing video. I have to tell you, just walking with you through you garden is the MOST relaxed I've felt in months. My husband Ken is making/growing/building/loving his own version of this here in uptight, Upstate New York (NOT the city! We live 8 hours NW of NYC in an area called the Finger Lakes). It's been such a labor of love for him. It has gotten to a place now where folks stop on the side of the road to tslk to him about what he's doing this year and tell him how much they love coming over te hill to see all the flowers herbs and vegetables growing and looking so beautiful. It really is a special place.
I love the finger lakes! Such a beautiful place. I live near Pittsburgh.
I live in Ontario and have three acres near the baseball hall of fame with a mobile home. it is so beautiful. we are the lower Catskills leather-stocking near Cooperstown area
Has an Ancient feel about it. ❤
You should both be proud as you have now made it even more special ❤ love from England.
There is nothing more satisfying than sitting in the garden listening to and watching the birds, butterflies and bees with the occasional hedgehog wandering about. Take care =-)
Your work and love have had transformational effects! You deserve to kick back and really, truly appreciate the mark you have made on Mother Earth!
❤ What a wonderful place and way of life✨🌷🌳🌻😻🐾🐾
What a lovely and inspiring way to start my Sunday! I’m always amazed at Nature’s ability to respond to a little TLC and give us back so much beauty and healing in return! To watch how things grow from small seeds or cuttings is truly miraculous… your land is an oasis of beauty - thanks for sharing your journey!
God's beautiful creation, and to be part in taking care of them is such a joyful thing.
The transformation of your land is amazing! I'm so glad you took photos when you began, because no one would ever guess it's the same place. It is inspiring. Thank you for sharing with all of us. Blessings to you both and the animals.
Magical transformation 💜💜
Hello Terri…lovely. Thank you for the back history of your land. I’m so happy that you and Colette are friends. I love her so much and I love her story. Much love to you, your family, your land and your precious dogs. Have a wonderful week
Blessings to you ❤❤
I wish you could be commissioned to take over all urban planning! Imagine what our cities could look like :) Thanks for sharing your beautiful story.
Great to see nature allowed to blossom.
Man lived FIRST in the garden :) Our souls are happiest in the garden. My garden has a sign saying "I am closer to God in my garden than any place else on earth" - truer words were never spoken. Your garden shows years of LOVE. so beautiful. thank you for showing before and after pics. Love and joy in the making over years of LOVE. Gorgeous!!!
I absolutely love this!
dear Terri.thanks a lot......you create such a loveley area........same as Colette..................everytime I,m in Ireland,I,m amazed by your fuchsia trees and bushes.....here in Germany we must buy every year a new one and only small perhaps 30 cm high................and I love that fuchsia...................Blessings and Greetings from Daggy,Kiel,Germany☘☘☘
well, you never know what the fuchsia will bring......
Terri this video was so interesting what a wonderful transformation. Colette at Bealtine Cottage is also a great inspiration to us all. Thank you, you have a beautiful home and garden. I love your videos. Best wishes ❤😊
Yes, I need to just be - in the garden. I tend to work, work, work and never take the time to sit with it! My husband takes his coffee outside early in morning and walks around "checking" on all the fruit trees, bushes and plants. I need to join him!
You have done so much there! Looks amazing. Have a blessed week.
I absolutely adore Sunday in the wee hours! Here in California I often hear Lol's lullaby before drifting off to sleep...much love
Your love made a miracle!
Thank you Danu for sharing the comfort and beauty of Nature with us..
Well done!!! ❤
Definitely very inspiring.
Paradise!!! Proof is in the pudding! 🐞🐝🐛
This is a joy to watch especially as I live in a city tenement. At least I have a beautiful tree to look out on. I love seeing the growth and development in your garden, your cats and dogs, and all the information about herbal medicine. Thank you both for this.🥰💜💫
I love it. It's beautiful!
Beautiful❤.
Thank you so much for showing us your progress over the years. It gives me hope that it is never too late to expand my own garden and pursue a mystical magical place of my own.
Dear Terri, What a lovely film! I lost myself in your garden and all the way through I dreamed about how I might pour more love into my own. Thank you for sharing all the love and beauty in your garden and for your healing, inspiring messages!
My heart is full ❤ thank you so much for sharing your amazing and beautiful journey with all of us. My little plot of land is in a small town in western Pennsylvania in the USA. We are in the midst of our own terra transformation and the deep connection I’ve made to the plants, trees, pollinators, insects, and birds has been life changing. I really don’t think I could be happier than I am now ❤
Terri this is wonderful!! You continue to inspire🕊Thank you so much 🌱!
Beautiful gardens! Thank you for sharing...
Thank you for sharing your story book garden! It looks as loved and respected as our own which has taken abour fifty years to have unfold about us. Have a beautiful week. Susan
Good morning Terri ☀️
This was like watching you and the land develop a relationship and a friendship with each other over the years. It looks like the trees and plants are embracing you with gratitude for your attention to them and your love for the land itself. You continue to inspire. Thank you 🌿🐚
Hello Barbara - how are you? It feels like that sometimes, brushing past tree branches. Yes, I do feel love from my garden as I am sure you do too xx
really inspiring, hard to imagine the potential at the start of how green and full of life it could be
Stunningly beautiful transformation- great to see before and after shots!
Thanks for inspiring us all as always ❤
OMG Terri….amazing…so beautiful 👍❤️☘️
The transformation you have made Terri is so amazing. The garden looks rich and exciting with so many varieties of plant life. Feels homely and safe.
You are right - it feels so safe and homely and dependable xx
So inspiring, Terri! I am always trying to get a close-up of the hawthorns because I don’t believe there are that many here in Ontario Canada. I could very well be wrong, but it’s not a common bush where I live anyway. And they are so magical. Thank you so much for the beautiful tour. I think I’m going to have to get planting this afternoon!
Heaven on earth as they say its breath taking love it you are truly gifted with nature and her plant life. thanks for sharing love to you friend.
Wow, thank you so much for this incredible and inspirational video. You have accomplished so much with your land and you can tell how much your efforts are appreciated by Mother Nature. Truly a labor of love. Blessings xx
It's amazing all you have accomplished. How lovely. Everything is thriving and lush the land has benefited from you being there. Thank for the tour I live in Indiana in the United States. I feel blessed to have found your channel it's magical. You teach me so much and just watching brings me joy. I look forward to seeing you next time 👍❤️🌱
This brings me joy this morning. Yours and Collete's stories and journeys have brought so much hope, empowerment, inspiration and I am so grateful to you both for sharing your wisdom and knowledge. There are many perspectives you both have individually shared that I connect with and have helped me come to terms with in my life recently and going through healing and embracing my life's experiences on a level of finding peace I suppose. Thank you, Terri.
Thank you Terri to invite us into your garden and giving us this walk through and giving us a glimpse of how the land was before you settled there and gave this land your love and made it so fruitful again. You made a little piece of paradise!
Thank you plant mama you did a fantastic job, nature loves you, it looks beautiful 💚
Absolutely stunning 😍. Very inspirational xx
A wonderful transformation! Inspiring ❤
Thank you for reminding us that everything is a process and nature doesn’t need to be completely controlled. It’s just needs to be loved and enjoyed.
Exactly! xx
Lovely to see one of your lovely old dogs from the past. We never ever forget them ❤
He was Chief. Miss him all the time, he was irreplaceable and a great family dog
it looks amazing xx
Such a beautiful home. Building and land together are so welcoming and nurturing. Fantastic job. Thank you for great inspiration 💚
Love your garden & all you do for nature, how you honor her.❤ I learn so much from you. Thank you!
So Wonderful what you’ve achieved! Very inspiring 💚
what and amazing and fullfilling accomplishment. im sure you have a calm peacefulness and loving feelings from your labor of love..
So beautiful! ☺️❤️
@0:03 cute doggos
It’s amazing what just a little nurturing from humans can encourage Mother Earth to abundance.
Amazingly beautiful, and to know and feel a part of Nature is the Best gift of all ❤️🧡💜🧡❤️ thank You so much for sharing your garden 🤗🤗 and your love for it .
Thank you so much, Terry! This was incredibly inspirational. I'm a 49 year old divorcee in Argentina. My kids have grown and don't need me that much anymore. I'm about to settle in a piece of land I bought in the countryside. The house is nowhere near ready, and the few plants I put in the soil are struggling with the cold and the wind. Still, I'm very excited to get started. I'm scared (I admit it), but very, very happy. Your video has given me great hope that things will be allright, even with the difficulties that are sure to come. THANK YOU!
One tip I was given, (which I ignored at the time and had to start over) was to just do what us manageable and then, as you get things under control and have success, you can spread out further. Don't try to do every thing at once. Talk to your garden spirits and plants and work with them. Best of luck, you can do it xx
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Fantastic,Terri and Lol. What a difference to when I saw it 13 years ago (doesn’t time fly !!) Love from the Pyrénées Orientales.
Hi aunty! Yes of course you were here when it was still pretty bleak. It's been amazing to us to revisit the old pictures and remind ourselves of how much it has changed.
Beautiful
Very much enjoyed your tea. Will join you in a cuppa :)
Thank you again Terri and Lol. Paradise found. Please share your story about how you found yourself on the 'plant path'. I'm following the herbal plant path myself. 🐝 Bee well ...
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Thank you so much for the show & tell. You're like a kindred spirit that always keeps me inspired & motivated. I really look forward to all your videos of knowledge, advice & ideas. Thanks you for sharing. Many Blessings...
Ever time a look is it 🎁🎉
Terri, I don't have enough words to say how absolutely heavenly and joyful all the whole garden ground s looks as though they love their home an c each other im feeling very emotional for you, xxxxxthankyou so much for joyful film and music. Absolutely enchanting. And your darling dogs a nd garden creatures, I love it,xxhas made me very cheerful thanks, take good care, wel, done, xxx
So glad it made you feel cheerful. thanks so much xx
Amazing in that rocky soil, with that salty wind. I just have tired soil. Inspiring!
When you encourage and work with nature anything is possible!
Thank you for sharing your amazing garden metamorphosis Danu, you are a fairy, the seeds and seedlings have responded to your loving care and grown with so much grace, they are dancing with the wind and singing with the birds, hi from Brittany in france where I also enjoy growing new green friends 💚🌻🌱
Hi Again!!!! Thank you so very much for everything you are showing, for your teachings and kindness and love of nature and life!!! Blessings to you and your family and Ireland as well!!!
You are so welcome! Blessings to you too xx
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amazing! the changes are beautiful and reflect your spiritual connections to the land. Such a wonderful sanctuary for you and nature. Plus all of the healing herbs you've grown. Very inspiring. I've made your green soup and am making another batch today! It's delicious.
You've brought so much life to your landscape. It's such a lovely garden 😊
That's an extraordinary transformation and video. A true labor of love if there was one. The land is loving you back in so many ways and on so many levels. Thank you Terri... oh and you have the best doggos!
Aw nature. So peaceful and smart. I love my gardens and each and everyone
We’ve been told that dandelions are weeds, elderberry trees invasive ...I love that we’re waking up to the fact that nature is beneficial & has always given us options for health & wellbeing & to reach for that rather than Pharma . Thank you Terri,love what you do xx
I adore you and your videos! Good morning from the Appalachian mountains of Virginia!
There is a Fuschia Bush????😮😮😮
I buy a potted plant every year. I love them. I had no idea they were a BUSH!😮
I'm in the states/TN. Now I'm gonna have to look and see if that can be achieved here.
I've also wanted to grow at least one of all the different trees. I don't think I can tho.
I so much loved walking with you in your garden. Thank you❤❤
I like the fact that everything looks natural and not organized!
I love your secret garden…wild and free…if a plant grows in our amazing heat here it stays and if not oh well we will find another for that place …the last three years have been totally committed to foraging plants …food bushes a small vegetable garden many herbs …in my seventieth year I just wish I had started much sooner ….children ask each time they come to visit and I teach them what they all do …planting for bees …butterflies ….pond for the frogs and amazing lotus flowers and lilies …a view I can never tire of …thanks for sharing your transformation and love of all living things…stay blessed
Blessings to you too Isabella and it is never too late - look at the huge difference you are making! xx
Magical! Thanks Terri and Lowell, for your re-wilding, inspiring all of us as you go. 💞
Oh. My. Stars. Seeing this is so inspiring, you now live in a sanctuary. With the sea/salt wind to deal with it seems The Mother has helped you to create a home for all the creatures.
Fabulous! x
My dearest Terri....one word....thank you very much for your lovely work on this planet...❤❤❤❤❤
It has all been my pleasure Olga. I love the work. xxx
Absolutely love, love love this video❤ super inspiring, I’m learning so much from your platform, thank you soooo much.
What an oasis you and nature have created, blessings to you 🧚🙏💞
Oh Teri, a huge thank you for sharing the life span of your garden. What an inspiration watching your juvenile garden growing into a teenager. I hadn’t realised what a transformation you have made.
Beautiful Terri, have a great weekend 🌙💚🌿
Thank you for that beautiful glimpse into your life! I often look back on my home/gardens and wonder if anyone can appreciate all the time/effort it takes to get such beautiful land that explodes with happiness. I have been told repeatedly I transform my homes into peaceful places that settle all of life outside stress away.
You have a special gift xx
Seeing this was wonderful! It truly is amazing how the Earth, Plants and People can come together and create such beauty…all it takes is the will and nurturing each other to give birth of something so spectacular! Thanks for sharing the evolution of your little Paradise.
i too almost cried watching this one,,, 🌳i just watched the latest video with the new potato lazy beds,,, // so incredible to see the whole cottage garden story,-the pictures and the progress,,i know this will really encourage alot of people who are definatelly and seriously going the irish herb garden way, Thanks Terri & Lol.. i love u, your wurk,& your garden , 💐Cheers🌻
You are so kind, thanks so much x
Your videos bring me peace. The music, the voice, the nature... I aspire to live like this one day.
And you will - keep affirming xx
What an incredible transformation, Terri. It was such a barren space before your beautification. You’ve done an amazing job giving this property life. 😊💖🦋🕊
Inspired!!!! 😊
Wow! When you see the old photos isn’t the transformation amazing?! Your loving the land, taking care of it is obvious and affirming of what we can do. Thank you for sharing this Terri.🍀🍀🐇