Linda & Alexander are two.of my many favorite Gardner's 🌻🌳⚘ i love💚 watching Linda everthing looking wonderful in your yard & Gardens i think.i started watching you about 2 or so years ago because of your home lol & garden style . Thankyou for shareing.
I loved every minute of this video. I ate it up like a hungry child. Still cool here on the West Coast Cali, Nor-Cal. South of SF. Sun is out today. Thank you Linda for your inspiring video.
Linda & Alexandra - This video illustrates what well-spoken, professional speakers you both are. Appreciate how you incorporated the world history, architecture and geography of your homes into your philosophy of gardening.
Hola de Espana. Hello from Spain. Live in Spain. The U.K. gardens are the best in the world because of the soft light. The plants really stand out there. Like the red ( pink really ) white and blue. Here in Spain it's so sunny you need the bright yellows and reds. Another thing is the lawns in U.K. You can lay on them and no mosquitoes. Here you just get bitten all day. Not to mention the garden centers over there and the cafeterias attached, you can spend hours on end there. The Stately Homes and gardens, wonderful. Hola Inglaterra Te quiero. Two good, informative videos.
Middle size gardener is amazing. I just love how simple she delivers her messages and points. And love her editing and labeling everything. She's a special kind of educator. 🤗🤗🤗 definitely follow her.
It would be great to see some ideas for 70s and 80s style brick homes as so many of us have. Most are rather plain and severe. You have certainly captured your style home in your garden as well as your fellow gardener across the pond.
Yes indeed…love this lovely home. But most of us live in homes with somewhat less charm. Please help those of us with a plain house without the charm of arches and circles. I am hoping my yard will be the focal point and the house will be only the background. Often times the house is the house and other than paint and planters not much else we can do about it.
Alexandra has a magnificent home and gardens. It's amazing she found old photos of it and consulted with an historian. That is a loved home, like LV's. Thank you so much for sharing. Really enjoy these collabs. Appreciate the history of the architecture and plantings of each home and country and why.
1932 was the year of my birth so I am very interested in the history of your house. I loved this interesting video of how you match your garden to your house. Thank you.
Fabulous, Linda and Alexandra! We just moved into a colonial revival (in CA of all places) and are starting to redesign the garden. Struggling a bit with how our Mediterranean climate and native plants will work with the architecture. Thank you for reinforcing the need for symmetry and form (which has been my bias for this house all along). Great content here!
The term enchanted cottage is what comes to mind when I look at your brick, with the arches and roof lines. Like you, I am opposed to straight lines in a garden... my word is meandering.... just love the look of a little woodland trail.. that's what I feel when I look at your garden .... I imagine looking at night ' with the lights in the windows , imagining what it looks like inside ... fortunately you have done inside tours recently so its like I am there . Ahhhhhhh... a mini vacation for my heart
Linda, you are a wonderful inspiration. I just retired 3 months ago and have been spending a lot of time in the garden! I created a new garden space in the back of my yard, a project which I wanted to get to for so long, and now I have the time. It took me about 2 months -- tilling by hand and hauling dirt, and creating a border around it to hold the soil, as it's on a hill. (Thanks to my husband who assisted with some of the heavy lifting!) The plants are now in place and I am totally enjoying it. A boxwood is front and center in my new garden, along with many other perennials that match the style of my home (Cape style). My next project is to build stairs between this flower bed and the one next to it. I so look forward to your informative videos, which are inspiring and informative.
Great video today what a treat!!!! OMG your story when you bought your house is very similar to mind. I fell in love with my home because if you ever been to Fredericksburg Tx (my favorite place in the world), has many county cottage style homes that some are bed & breakfast, b/c the little town has many festivals events. To which every yr. I loved to attend the Texas Wine Festival held the last wk-end of Oct. Always made it a point to rent a B&B place b/c I love cottagey stye houses. Lord and behold I found one in my area (deep So. Tx), bought it and it too had only 2 huge Ebony trees in the front, in the back a huge avocado tree huge with 3 bougainvilleas and the rest was dirt. My house was build in 1925 it's a Craftsman Bungalow. With arctic freeze we experience lost many plants some survived but starting from the ground up. So now I still want that cottagey style of gardening with a twist of a tropical feel (live in zone 10). This vid is truly inspirational and it's a great point to style your garden to the style of your house, it makes sense. Thanks Linda you're the best.
I live in a story and a half Cape Cod-style home. I, too, moved in about 30 years ago. I didn't consciously think of my house's structure style when I designed my English garden. I just like that look. I have typical foundation plantings, but also installed gardens butting the public sidewalk. When I'm outside in the early evening it's fun to meet people who stop to admire my seasonal display. Why, just today, the postal carrier stopped long enough to comment on the currently stunning display of my 'Prairie Fire' crabapple with a carpet of white wind anemones next to my driveway. He even came back later with a package (not for me) and commented on my tulips next to the public sidewalk. I love bringing a bit of beauty to the neighborhood. Oh, and Linda, I recently purchased some bricks to edge one of my gardens where the wood mulch spills over the metal edging onto my crushed rock patio. I like how yours is a mixture of bricks and stone. I ran into a problem with interference from established plants so may incorporate other materials to achieve the look and objective.
Loved this. Could you expand this topic to how to garden for more common home styles: ranch, southwestern etc. I struggle with southwestern xeriscape versus having more flowers
I could listen to you anytime. So enjoyable. This lovely tale has captured me (again) impressed on how you think, explaine, research and has created your magical home and Garden. Also how flexible and creative you are. Not afraid of challenges. You are truly inspiring. God bless 💐
Thank you Linda and Alexandra love the contrast of the different time zone and gardening zone. Ones garden is truly an extension of their indoor living oasis and it's depicted in this video. Love the setting in both hemisphere ❤
I have also matched my garden to the style of my home and am so happy with the results. I agree about making the depth and shape of beds vary with the architecture. Scale is very important. Thanks for this video!
This was a treat! Fully enjoyed Alexandra’s garden and design ideas and now with the design details of your home and the garden design principles you used I can really see it!!
Linda I could listen to you read the dictionary! You have such a wonderfully eloquent way of describing your garden and a nostalgic southern accent to us fellow southerners. Hello from Dallas.
I wasn’t much of a gardener at all until we bought our stone cottage six years ago. It has totally changed me! I always work to make the garden showcase the stone and the house. People often call it the Hansel and Gretl house, we get a lot of slow drive bys, people stopping and complimenting our hard work and families go out of their way at Halloween to visit us. The previous owner did a totally English style and was gorgeous! Very different from what we have now but we still love it. Thank goodness for RUclipsrs like you and Alexandra! Completely inspiring!
Hi Linda! I recently discovered your channel and now I’m obsessed! I live in Dallas and have a 1929 English cottage so I love watching and learning!! Thank you for what you do!
Glad to be directed to you from Alexandra. I have a lot of the same ethos about gardens/yards as you do. Would love to see some current gardens for early 60's, kinda ranch, brick but blah homes.
I love both of your channels! I also look out my upstairs windows at my garden beds to see the appeal of the layout. I have a traditional style home and work to repeat the planting around my home, keeping to a handful of plants bringing it out away from my home with grass in the middle for grounding. Thank you both for your expertise!
This is my very favorite video to date that you have made and you have made a lot of fantastic ones. Hearing from England and then hearing about your home architecture and age was the best. My husbands grandfather owned a tutor in OKC that reminds me of yours. Thanks for such a great video❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️.
Loved hearing from England 😉. And so glad you mentioned the importance of having beds in the lawn. Not just straight across the front. We built our retirement home 16 yrs ago in a new golf course community. Immediately hired an excellent Landscape designer. He developed a 5 yr plan for us. Our yard is beautiful and unlike others. Everyone Says “your yard is beautiful. “. It’s because we had a plan and didn’t just use builder grade trees and shrubs. I wanna say “Duh!!”
Absolutely gorgeous! You inspire me so much-needed to update my landscaping to more Perennials in my garden. Kentucky weather can be challenging also here. Keep up the great work and great tips. New viewers Love from the blue grass state 💙😍
Love the videos, the ideas, tutorials, all of it. I’m in a hard spot right now as we live in a rental home community while we are in between moving in with my mother as a caregiver so no yard work and no planting other than a few planters on the front and back porch. But I can work in my mothers yard-she is a plant fanatic and she gets huge joy from it. So how in the world do I reign myself in to not go hog wild in planting more plants? It’s a hard life loving a beautiful yard and wanting to constantly make more of a beautiful yard! Ha ha
@@LindaVater the worst part is we are relegated to 5 on the front porch and 5 on the back. So it spills over into my house, and my moms yard. Thankfully she loves it. So I keep ideas from you! 💜
Hi Linda I just wish you have a video when you design your garden.. I love your front garden design and all topiary. I am in zone 3 and we are very cold and long winter than in Oklahoma. Sometimes our temperature -30 to - 50 for a week plus the windchill..
Oh so timely! I'm in Australia, front line to the sea and about to pull up the grass at the front. It's only a small space but it's doing my head in trying to decide what would fit with the style of the house....and also the climate. Unlike your beautiful houses, mine is quite nondescript. Lovely episode, thank you. 🇦🇺
I love the design of your garden beds in the front yard because they do perfect Lt red fleet the style of your home. An aside here. I’m looking for some comfortable garden wellies, up to the knees like yours, but brightly colored to spot the ticks we deal with up here in the NorthEast on the coast of New Hampshire. I can’t find anything reasonably priced after looking everywhere. Any suggestions?
Would you take us a front door house tour in your neighborhood ? I love the architectural houses in your neighborhood ❤️🥰❤️ can you explain to us why the stone behind fireplace is different from the rest ?
Linda, do you treat your tulips as annuals? Our 7b in N. Georgia doesn't generally get enough cold. Perhaps it's more a drainage thing but we don't count on tulips returning dependably.
love watching middle sized garden. Relatively new to your channel Linda but I'm obsessed. I really love your brick and flagstone walkways with the gravel in between, would be great if you could show us how it was done. Looking forward to seeing some creative ways from you with edibles this year.
I love Alexandra and her channel so much! I can’t manage my English country garden in Indiana without her! Thanks, Linda! ❤️👍
Fantastic video Linda! I love Alexandra's garden!
Love this! 1959 split level home ideas would be lovely! Thank you for bringing so much beauty into the world❤️🌼😘
I love both of your RUclips channels. Glad to see you both collaborating
Two of my favorite garden ladies!
Thanks for sharing! 🌼🌿💜🥰
Linda & Alexander are two.of my many favorite Gardner's 🌻🌳⚘ i love💚 watching Linda everthing looking wonderful in your yard & Gardens i think.i started watching you about 2 or so years ago because of your home lol & garden style . Thankyou for shareing.
A very special treat on a relaxing Sunday. Loved this, thank you! 💗🌸🌷
I just adored this video. So inspirational! It's always a pleasure when you team up with Alexandra.
Two of my favourite RUclips gardeners in one video. Yay 😀
Glad to join the company of experts
I loved every minute of this video. I ate it up like a hungry child. Still cool here on the West Coast Cali, Nor-Cal. South of SF. Sun is out today. Thank you Linda for your inspiring video.
Love The Middle-Sized Garden and thank you for the very informative tour! ❤️
My two favourite garden shows. Thankyou from Aus where autumn seems to have become winter!🇦🇺
Beautiful home & garden, it would be 'magical' in Spring. That you both.
This was such a delight🌷
Stunning property.
Two wonderful women, with fabulous experience and knowledge.
I follow you both!
I've been a fan of Alexandra for quite awhile.
Linda & Alexandra - This video illustrates what well-spoken, professional speakers you both are. Appreciate how you incorporated the world history, architecture and geography of your homes into your philosophy of gardening.
Hola de Espana. Hello from Spain. Live in Spain. The U.K. gardens are the best in the world because of the soft light. The plants really stand out there. Like the red ( pink really ) white and blue. Here in Spain it's so sunny you need the bright yellows and reds. Another thing is the lawns in U.K. You can lay on them and no mosquitoes. Here you just get bitten all day. Not to mention the garden centers over there and the cafeterias attached, you can spend hours on end there. The Stately Homes and gardens, wonderful. Hola Inglaterra Te quiero. Two good, informative videos.
Your climate is much more like mine!
Yes you can put the limited selection of flowers in your garden here and you don't see them the second year.
The gardeners I am following know each other. Amazing!
Just love Alexandra and her Channel. Great to see your collab.
Oh this is fabulous, I watch every episode of both your channels 😍
Middle size gardener is amazing. I just love how simple she delivers her messages and points. And love her editing and labeling everything. She's a special kind of educator. 🤗🤗🤗 definitely follow her.
It would be great to see some ideas for 70s and 80s style brick homes as so many of us have. Most are rather plain and severe. You have certainly captured your style home in your garden as well as your fellow gardener across the pond.
Yes indeed…love this lovely home. But most of us live in homes with somewhat less charm. Please help those of us with a plain house without the charm of arches and circles. I am hoping my yard will be the focal point and the house will be only the background. Often times the house is the house and other than paint and planters not much else we can do about it.
I agree this is a wonderful idea for a video! You are so right and I will find a home that is a ranch style to work with.
Great idea for a video!
Can’t wait to see. I live in a midcentury ranch but I love English style gardens and I garden in zone 7a , with extreme weather like you Linda.
I absolutely love when gardeners connect around the world and share their differences and similarities. Thank you!
I really enjoy Alexandra and her channel. Always informative.
Watched the middle sized garden this morning and was delighted to see you pop up too Linda. It was like a friend visiting 😁
Thank you for the tour of two beautiful gardens!
Well done Linda and Alexandra. Very informative. Thank you.
Great Video, love the London garden also.
I’ve Already been a fan for a while. I adore her UK show! So fun to see my garden favorites connect!
Alexandra has a magnificent home and gardens. It's amazing she found old photos of it and consulted with an historian. That is a loved home, like LV's.
Thank you so much for sharing. Really enjoy these collabs.
Appreciate the history of the architecture and plantings of each home and country and why.
This was again a
wonderfull video full of usefull information.
Thank you Linda ( and the English lady of the middle sized garden.)
👌🍀
Nice to see you Alexandra!
1932 was the year of my birth so I am very interested in the history of your house. I loved this interesting video of how you match your garden to your house. Thank you.
that was fun thanks
Fabulous, Linda and Alexandra! We just moved into a colonial revival (in CA of all places) and are starting to redesign the garden. Struggling a bit with how our Mediterranean climate and native plants will work with the architecture. Thank you for reinforcing the need for symmetry and form (which has been my bias for this house all along). Great content here!
This was great! I love UK gardens
The term enchanted cottage is what comes to mind when I look at your brick, with the arches and roof lines. Like you, I am opposed to straight lines in a garden... my word is meandering.... just love the look of a little woodland trail.. that's what I feel when I look at your garden .... I imagine looking at night ' with the lights in the windows , imagining what it looks like inside ... fortunately you have done inside tours recently so its like I am there . Ahhhhhhh... a mini vacation for my heart
How very dear🍃
Thank you for the tour, Linda.
Linda, you are a wonderful inspiration. I just retired 3 months ago and have been spending a lot of time in the garden! I created a new garden space in the back of my yard, a project which I wanted to get to for so long, and now I have the time. It took me about 2 months -- tilling by hand and hauling dirt, and creating a border around it to hold the soil, as it's on a hill. (Thanks to my husband who assisted with some of the heavy lifting!) The plants are now in place and I am totally enjoying it. A boxwood is front and center in my new garden, along with many other perennials that match the style of my home (Cape style). My next project is to build stairs between this flower bed and the one next to it. I so look forward to your informative videos, which are inspiring and informative.
Wow Susan! Retirement becomes you!! You go girl!
Thank you so much for your videos! I enjoy them and have learned alot from you!
Great video today what a treat!!!! OMG your story when you bought your house is very similar to mind. I fell in love with my home because if you ever been to Fredericksburg Tx (my favorite place in the world), has many county cottage style homes that some are bed & breakfast, b/c the little town has many festivals events. To which every yr. I loved to attend the Texas Wine Festival held the last wk-end of Oct. Always made it a point to rent a B&B place b/c I love cottagey stye houses. Lord and behold I found one in my area (deep So. Tx), bought it and it too had only 2 huge Ebony trees in the front, in the back a huge avocado tree huge with 3 bougainvilleas and the rest was dirt. My house was build in 1925 it's a Craftsman Bungalow. With arctic freeze we experience lost many plants some survived but starting from the ground up. So now I still want that cottagey style of gardening with a twist of a tropical feel (live in zone 10). This vid is truly inspirational and it's a great point to style your garden to the style of your house, it makes sense. Thanks Linda you're the best.
I live in a story and a half Cape Cod-style home. I, too, moved in about 30 years ago.
I didn't consciously think of my house's structure style when I designed my English garden. I just like that look.
I have typical foundation plantings, but also installed gardens butting the public sidewalk. When I'm outside in the early evening it's fun to meet people who stop to admire my seasonal display. Why, just today, the postal carrier stopped long enough to comment on the currently stunning display of my 'Prairie Fire' crabapple with a carpet of white wind anemones next to my driveway. He even came back later with a package (not for me) and commented on my tulips next to the public sidewalk.
I love bringing a bit of beauty to the neighborhood.
Oh, and Linda, I recently purchased some bricks to edge one of my gardens where the wood mulch spills over the metal edging onto my crushed rock patio. I like how yours is a mixture of bricks and stone. I ran into a problem with interference from established plants so may incorporate other materials to achieve the look and objective.
So very interesting to hear the styles of the two homes and how you use their structure to introduce your garden style
Two of my favorite gardeners collaborating-- Life is GOOD! Now invited Yulia of YGarden to share and I am over the moon happy!
Not only beautiful but so informational and historical!
Loved this. Could you expand this topic to how to garden for more common home styles: ranch, southwestern etc. I struggle with southwestern xeriscape versus having more flowers
Yes!
I could listen to you anytime. So enjoyable. This lovely tale has captured me (again) impressed on how you think, explaine, research and has created your magical home and Garden. Also how flexible and creative you are. Not afraid of challenges. You are truly inspiring. God bless 💐
What a treat this was!
Wonderful video, thanks for sharing! 🙂
Thank you Linda and Alexandra love the contrast of the different time zone and gardening zone. Ones garden is truly an extension of their indoor living oasis and it's depicted in this video. Love the setting in both hemisphere ❤
I have also matched my garden to the style of my home and am so happy with the results. I agree about making the depth and shape of beds vary with the architecture. Scale is very important. Thanks for this video!
That was a great tour with a bit of a history! The fence is so nice. I like the colour, it shows up in front of the plants.
This was a treat! Fully enjoyed Alexandra’s garden and design ideas and now with the design details of your home and the garden design principles you used I can really see it!!
I loved this video!!
Linda I could listen to you read the dictionary! You have such a wonderfully eloquent way of describing your garden and a nostalgic southern accent to us fellow southerners. Hello from Dallas.
Love this video. I had not thought to mimic my architecture in my garden. Now I have to go work on that. Just lovely!
Great video
Love this
Beautiful gardens!
I loved your house it's beautiful with a lot of character . My house is a century home build in 1889
I wasn’t much of a gardener at all until we bought our stone cottage six years ago. It has totally changed me! I always work to make the garden showcase the stone and the house. People often call it the Hansel and Gretl house, we get a lot of slow drive bys, people stopping and complimenting our hard work and families go out of their way at Halloween to visit us. The previous owner did a totally English style and was gorgeous! Very different from what we have now but we still love it. Thank goodness for RUclipsrs like you and Alexandra! Completely inspiring!
Hi Linda! I recently discovered your channel and now I’m obsessed!
I live in Dallas and have a 1929 English cottage so I love watching and learning!! Thank you for what you do!
Wonderful collaboration ❤ Needed the information you both gave us. Thanks 😊
thank you to both of you. really interesting and informative.
Thank you, good advice!
Love this! Greetings from Belgium
👋 hello!
Glad to be directed to you from Alexandra. I have a lot of the same ethos about gardens/yards as you do. Would love to see some current gardens for early 60's, kinda ranch, brick but blah homes.
Several had mentioned that then I’ll try to be doing a video on something similar in the coming weeks
Wonderful video - love your darling neighborhood
Thanks Amy!
Excellent...thank you both.... always learning something here! 🌹🌹🌹🌹
Great video, thanks!
I love both of your channels! I also look out my upstairs windows at my garden beds to see the appeal of the layout. I have a traditional style home and work to repeat the planting around my home, keeping to a handful of plants bringing it out away from my home with grass in the middle for grounding. Thank you both for your expertise!
I would love to see a drone shot on your entire yard.
We have used drone footage in a number of videos. I can’t tell you exactly which ones that you might enjoy looking for it LOL!
This is my very favorite video to date that you have made and you have made a lot of fantastic ones. Hearing from England and then hearing about your home architecture and age was the best. My husbands grandfather owned a tutor in OKC that reminds me of yours. Thanks for such a great video❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️.
You were great, Linda ! Saw this already!!!
🥰
Loved hearing from England 😉. And so glad you mentioned the importance of having beds in the lawn. Not just straight across the front. We built our retirement home 16 yrs ago in a new golf course community. Immediately hired an excellent
Landscape designer. He developed a 5 yr plan for us. Our yard is beautiful and unlike others. Everyone
Says “your yard is beautiful. “. It’s because we had a plan and didn’t just use builder grade trees and shrubs. I wanna say “Duh!!”
I would LOVE to sit there! Beautiful garden you have, front and back. love, hugs,prayers.
Absolutely gorgeous! You inspire me so much-needed to update my landscaping to more Perennials in my garden.
Kentucky weather can be challenging also here.
Keep up the great work and great tips.
New viewers
Love from the blue grass state 💙😍
Request landscaping ideas for small cape cod homes, not near water. Great Video!!
Love the videos, the ideas, tutorials, all of it. I’m in a hard spot right now as we live in a rental home community while we are in between moving in with my mother as a caregiver so no yard work and no planting other than a few planters on the front and back porch. But I can work in my mothers yard-she is a plant fanatic and she gets huge joy from it. So how in the world do I reign myself in to not go hog wild in planting more plants? It’s a hard life loving a beautiful yard and wanting to constantly make more of a beautiful yard! Ha ha
Karen that’s why we do so much container gardening?!?🤣
@@LindaVater the worst part is we are relegated to 5 on the front porch and 5 on the back. So it spills over into my house, and my moms yard. Thankfully she loves it. So I keep ideas from you! 💜
Hi Linda I just wish you have a video when you design your garden.. I love your front garden design and all topiary. I am in zone 3 and we are very cold and long winter than in Oklahoma. Sometimes our temperature -30 to - 50 for a week plus the windchill..
Thanks so much for sharing!
The Foxglove is glorious 🌳
Such a fun video!!
Thank you
So great video ❤️❤️❤️❤️
Oh so timely! I'm in Australia, front line to the sea and about to pull up the grass at the front. It's only a small space but it's doing my head in trying to decide what would fit with the style of the house....and also the climate. Unlike your beautiful houses, mine is quite nondescript. Lovely episode, thank you. 🇦🇺
Loved this🙌💖x
9 in winter and 5 in summer! I am very exhausted with the hot sweltering humidity of summer. I may need to move.
Western Oregon and Washington await you. 😀
Lol!
I know!
Zone 9 in US is North Florida weather. I'm in Zone 8 in Georgia. Never knew England had tropical weather.
I love the design of your garden beds in the front yard because they do perfect Lt red fleet the style of your home. An aside here. I’m looking for some comfortable garden wellies, up to the knees like yours, but brightly colored to spot the ticks we deal with up here in the NorthEast on the coast of New Hampshire. I can’t find anything reasonably priced after looking everywhere. Any suggestions?
These are really cute. Get great reviews and great price. amzn.to/3y8R14O
Would you take us a front door house tour in your neighborhood ? I love the architectural houses in your neighborhood ❤️🥰❤️ can you explain to us why the stone behind fireplace is different from the rest ?
I am curios about that small wood fence - is it a DYI? how did you tied up the sticks so it doesn't show?
Linda, do you treat your tulips as annuals? Our 7b in N. Georgia doesn't generally get enough cold. Perhaps it's more a drainage thing but we don't count on tulips returning dependably.
L💛VE!!! 🌿💐🌸🌼🌸💐🌿
جميل جدا
love watching middle sized garden. Relatively new to your channel Linda but I'm obsessed. I really love your brick and flagstone walkways with the gravel in between, would be great if you could show us how it was done. Looking forward to seeing some creative ways from you with edibles this year.
So enjoyed this (but please look up the word cacophony).
You are so right! Meant to say choreography but sometimes my old brain has😆 a hiccough
😍