I love the front yard with it's subtle shades of color and great mix of textures. My favorite thing in the backyard is the arbor over the patio door, after looking at your renderings at the end, I can see that you had so many good ideas. My backyard is all shade, too, and it is much more difficult to get color interest there, but it can be done. I see a little bit with the lambs ear and grasses, but the back yard looked like a sea of the same shade of green to me, with the hollies and the hostas being a solid mass of little interest. I know you said the homeowners wanted to keep the hostas, but what a difference it would make to trim up hollies[ and break up the hostas with a few variegated and chartreuse ones to add some interest. Or, suggest to the homeowners that they move those big pots of white begonias back there among the hostas. Some white back there would be stunning, yet still restful. They would be surprised at what adding something to draw the eye to the back would do for the whole garden!
I've just taken an early retirement and even though one of my reasons to retire was to "fix up my house," I seem to only be "fixing up my garden." I am enjoying it so much and I just love your tours that help to inspire me.
Here I am a year later, "fixing up my gardens." I ordered a Lutyens bench and an arbor for climbing roses yesterday. Still haven't "fixed up my house." 🤔😔😂
That’s a really relaxing landscape! I like the theme I see present in your work - reality landscaping is what I call it. It’s not overdone or overstylized. It presents a great balance of order and nature. Thank you for sharing your work.
I love your garden tour videos. I get so many design ideas that are so practical and possible for my own yard. Thank you for sharing and also for including plant names with zone info plus your site plans. Very helpful.
I am so excited to have found your channel! I was looking for someone who did landscapes with hardscape and planting. Beautiful design, implementation, and great solution to the impermeable surface limit.
Sweet & Simple, you did a wonderful job Yuliya! The storage gave me an idea for me and my garden tools and amendments. Lovely work, thank you for sharing! 😉
Nice job with this tiny yard, really love those blue stone pavers, an the different sizes on the "back" walkway to the little sitting area. Agree with you on the vinyl fencing, wished I'd never used it around my yard, the pickets popped off an it was such a pain I took out, left a U shape to plant around, it has the arbor for the mower to come thru.
Just found your channel 😊 Love the blue stone patio design. I too am a fan of mirrors in the garden. That was a good question about the glare. Never thought of it. Thank you for sharing. Subscribed 😊
i think this yard is really sweet. i love the shade myself and smaller gardens like this can be such a joy! any idea where the homeowner got the candle holder on the back of the house? love your aesthetic and your videos Yuliya!
Beautiful garden! New subscriber and I love your videos! Im in z9 southern California. I live on 3/4 acre upscale neighborhood - ranch style home. I love flowers and color and I enjoy doing my own hard work. I need ideas for all day full sun front of the house gardens. Do you have anything you can post here online? Thank you for sharing your work with us! I love it.
Lisa Gomez I live in Florida zone 9b my yard is in full sun. What I found works for me are butterfly bushes, roses, hibiscus (my weeping hibiscus tree is beautiful), lavender, salvia, Baptisia, Joseph’s coat, petunias, pentas , angelonia, crepe myrtles, dianthus, Lantana, veronica, and geraniums. My advice is check out your Nurseries or big box stores and don’t be afraid to try something. Good luck!
Try to plant a bleeding heart (Lamprocapnos spectabilis) in your garden. You will be delighted with how beautiful it blooms in the shade! Also i am in zone 6 and i love these flowers.
Wow! I absolutely love it....the whole property. So beautiful and I love the choice of colors. Also the color of the phlox ...my favorite shade of pink. I cannot find a phlox that will live in my yard though but maybe it is too sunny here.
Do you remember where you purchased the 'Chesapeake" Holly? Was it already a mature plant or did you purchase it small? If small, how long did it take to grow as a screen? I have a wrought iron fence that I'm trying to cover and provide privacy from 4 dogs and their humans. Would prefer something that's evergreen and grows fast in zone 5b. Any suggestions? Beautiful. Thanks for sharing.
Just a little bit late but just for interest I will let you know what plants/flowers I love 3????? Honestly that is like asking me of my three children, 6 grandchildren I love best! Right now we are in Winter so I have to mention my sensory Smell is leading me to my three. 1. Daphne Adora pink wins first place hands down. It actually is the second time it has flowered 2 months early but in January it also flowered. Not all the daphnes have flowered twice so far in my 25 town house village here in Eltham Victoria Australia 🇦🇺 2. Hyacinth I did force two in the vases with the collar so the bulb doesn’t fall into the water. I, or my brain couldn’t handle the strong scent but the lonely bulb has recently flowered it is opposite the daphne and 3 steps from my front door, the other two hyacinths are on both her left and right and looking very sad and sorry for itself. 3. White jonquils have just begun to open up thankfully not all at the same time. But next year the Hellebores (Winter Roses) I ordered from Post Office Farm Nursery last night, I will keep my fingers crossed that where I plant them near to the daphne under a dark purple leaf cherry tree is perfect for them. Deciding on what to order wasn’t easy but I decided on 3 of the 6 pack mixed and 1 of every picotee they had available. It is Thursday and we don’t have mail delivered on Saturday except before Christmas for 2 Saturdays so I will have to wait until Monday maybe Tuesday. The area has been worked on and with sugar cane mulch on the whole area I have had the privilege of meeting two huge fat worms 🪱 I hadn’t seen prior to the mulching. I am also into no dig gardening. Today I show large boxes being taken out the back of the local Fruit and Vegetable Shop called Harvest I said could I have those and I got a resounding YES they are about 6 ft by 3 ft from holding advertising posters etc. I went to Aldi two doors down and coming back to return the trolley I noticed he had a foam box for broccoli 🥦 (yucky)! I got that too and I will use it to hold the bottles where I will do your winter seeding. I broadcasted some nasturtiums a while ago and I have found I have many growing and all are very happy growing through the sugar cane mulch. I had a marigold pop up and doing well but the fellow who weed whacked chopped it up? Not very happy before with his terrible attitude but now I will be pushing for someone maybe a lady who cares about what we residents love 💕. Maybe some more will come up as I kept broadcasting the seeds when I deadheaded the flowers. My petunias have been flowering through 3 seasons and I keep dead heading them too so there is no space between them at all and creeping further inland ha ha. Dahlias, chrysanthemums, galardias and anemones Japanese Wind Flowers love them all. I hope to be able to find more of North American native plants and flowers here in Australia 🇦🇺. I have taken over the care of my back wall community garden and after cleaning it up and finding plants which were just left next to the wall facing West and lots of large fat leaved jade and Chinese lanterns, abutilon I believe trees gone crazy. So my friend did her crazy with her Fiskars and branch saw, another lady brought over her small chain saw and we ended up with a huge pile of branches and un wanted plants. I hope to grow hydrangeas there as the same type of area 4 doors away has hydrangeas growing there as well as bulbs jonquils and a lemon 🍋 tree. We can pick when needed so I love that. The oldest resident is 97 and I am nearly 72 yo the third youngest you must be over 50 to buy or rent like I do. But most move here around their late sixties and early 70’s. So these community gardens are left to us babies to care for or this gardener will just mow over everything??? Thank you so much for doing what you are doing I certainly enjoy it and I have given your name to a young landscape designer (she has over 200 dahlias) and I hope she has some time to view some of your videos. She is a mum of two children on the spectrum and I asked was her husband on it too. Yes the Apple never fails far from the tree. My daughter has the same situation and she works in the industry to create a better life once leaving school and becoming independent. I taught at a Special School and I was a pig in mud! Huge hugs all the way from Eltham Victoria Australia 🇦🇺 Check my location out it is very natural here.
I am interested at the begining in the background there is a hedge... Can you tell me what kind of hedge is planted?!... Thank you!!!.... The video as always interesting and lovely...
Another job well done. Interesting about the shade tree protection. That would frustrate me being a gardener. I just had two huge trees cut down because of morning shade on my garden.
oh no, we need approval for every tree removal. in fact if you remove one you must replace it with another! most of the lots in my area have tons of shade and really challenging for a garden.
What a great little garden. I have one question about mirrors in the garden. what happens when the sun hits it? Particularly in summer? Does it reflect too brightly for the plants?
PollinateOrDie enthusiastically approves of this video:) Loved the shout-outs for holly instead of boxwoods and for the wildlife beneficial Black Cherry tree. I've noticed a new holly at Lowe's called a "Scallywag Holly/Ilex x meserveae 'Monnieves' . To me it's a much prettier holly than any other I've seen. The new growth has a red tinge to it. It's a male holly so unfortunately no red berries:( I don't know if you've ever seen any videos featuring a guy name Doug Tallamy. He's heavily into native/wildlife beneficial plants and has numerous Eco talks here on RUclips. He has Black Cherry at #2 on his list of beneficial trees after oak trees. Aside from his presentations, he's been featured a couple of times on a channel called EcoBeneficial which is done by a woman named Kim Eierman. Very educational and well worth taking a look at. Loving you showing us what you've created for your clients. I'm very surprised the patio was considered impermeable hardscape. After all, water can run through the cracks. I love trees but I'd hate to live where I couldn't cut one down if needed. Everyone has a wrong tree wrong place issue from time to time.
Thank you so much! love Doug Tallamy, have a number of his books and also have been to some of his talks. Black cherries are great trees for a park or wooded areas but so messy at residential lots! thank you so much for your input :)
That's what i thought! but when we were filling out paperwork for some permits this area was considered 'urban' and had lots of restrictions. Go figure! maybe it's the density of the population? 🤔
I love the front yard with it's subtle shades of color and great mix of textures. My favorite thing in the backyard is the arbor over the patio door, after looking at your renderings at the end, I can see that you had so many good ideas. My backyard is all shade, too, and it is much more difficult to get color interest there, but it can be done. I see a little bit with the lambs ear and grasses, but the back yard looked like a sea of the same shade of green to me, with the hollies and the hostas being a solid mass of little interest. I know you said the homeowners wanted to keep the hostas, but what a difference it would make to trim up hollies[ and break up the hostas with a few variegated and chartreuse ones to add some interest. Or, suggest to the homeowners that they move those big pots of white begonias back there among the hostas. Some white back there would be stunning, yet still restful. They would be surprised at what adding something to draw the eye to the back would do for the whole garden!
It’s beautiful and love that you show a small garden. It is also very private now and I like how the shrub hides the white fence.
I've just taken an early retirement and even though one of my reasons to retire was to "fix up my house," I seem to only be "fixing up my garden." I am enjoying it so much and I just love your tours that help to inspire me.
You will have time to do both, lucky you Lol
Sounds like you have your priorities straight!! 😊
Here I am a year later, "fixing up my gardens." I ordered a Lutyens bench and an arbor for climbing roses yesterday. Still haven't "fixed up my house." 🤔😔😂
That’s a really relaxing landscape! I like the theme I see present in your work - reality landscaping is what I call it. It’s not overdone or overstylized. It presents a great balance of order and nature. Thank you for sharing your work.
I so agree
Love the hydrangeas in front, and even though the back yard is small, it’s so cozy.
Omg ur here... I Lv u
@@taesnosefreckle7503 lol yes i am. I enjoy watching other videos just as much as i enjoy making my own
Beautiful. I consider myself lucky to have both sunny and shady areas in my yard. Love your work!
Hey there! i watch your channel too! garden gals unite! 😀😉
Y Garden 😘😘
I enjoy seeing small gardens since that is what I have.
I love your garden tour videos. I get so many design ideas that are so practical and possible for my own yard. Thank you for sharing and also for including plant names with zone info plus your site plans. Very helpful.
Thank you for watching!
The white Hydrangea is beautiful, Can't believe it was planted last year ,get big so fast
Like the hydrangeas you used in the front. Nice, peaceful transformation in the backyard.
I am so excited to have found your channel! I was looking for someone who did landscapes with hardscape and planting. Beautiful design, implementation, and great solution to the impermeable surface limit.
thank you so much! i mostly do gardening how to videos but occasionally include some of my other work with hardscapes, water features and stuff :)
Really nice looking around this garden. Thanks
Beautiful garden new friend💚🌱🤗
Thank you for sharing with us!
Its like a little secret garden with all the evergreens, so cute!
I love your cottage garden 🌼🌷🌸🐝🦋 and Hydrangeas ! 💙💜💛 .
Love this cozy shade backyard. Reminds me of my backyard.
Beautifully done thank you for sharing.
So peaceful!!
Lovely Garden....
Thank you for sharing...Y Garden!!
Sweet & Simple, you did a wonderful job Yuliya! The storage gave me an idea for me and my garden tools and amendments. Lovely work, thank you for sharing! 😉
Great!
Small and tranquil oasis 😍
Wow
The backyard w blue stone captured my attention to draw to the other parts of yard
Just lovely! You did so much with this space. I think the planting made the backyard look big!
beautiful garden thank you for sharing
Des belle hortensias, j'adore cette fleurs, bravo pour vous amis
You are so talented! Great job!!
Love garden tour , thank you Yu
It’s a wonderful small garden. You did a great job. The flox offer a beautiful color. Tfs. 👏🏻👏🏻
Lovely garden ! Thank you 💕🌺👏
Lovely garden, you made the most of your urban garden, I like it. I have a small urbam garden too. Nice to see yours , inspiring .😍👏😍👏
I miss New Jersey .lovely garden.
I want to be sitting in that garden. stunning.
Julia so pretty! Great job with the plantings and hardscape. So handsome!
Stunning garden!
Beautiful space. I am ready for Spring❤️
Beautiful garden packed with beautiful plants.
Nice job with this tiny yard, really love those blue stone pavers, an the different sizes on the "back" walkway to the little sitting area. Agree with you on the vinyl fencing, wished I'd never used it around my yard, the pickets popped off an it was such a pain I took out, left a U shape to plant around, it has the arbor for the mower to come thru.
Lovely, peaceful garden.
I love what you've done here!
love the sound of the water very soft,,,
Great video ty 4 sharing
Just found your channel 😊 Love the blue stone patio design. I too am a fan of mirrors in the garden. That was a good question about the glare. Never thought of it. Thank you for sharing. Subscribed 😊
Beautiful! Love your videos. So inspirational!
Love this!!!! Thank you for sharing! You are a great garden designer! I am a new subscriber and love your channel already!!! 💕 Very inspiring! 👍
Thank you for joining!
Definitely small yard that you designed grand!
Your Garden is beautiful thank you for sharing from London❤️
Love your garden👍
Gorgeous, Yuliya!
your home is lovely i would move in and leave everything just the way it is, ye did a great job you should be proud. love from Ireland
I think it all beautiful 💕
Very beautiful, just a suggestion, power wash the patio, makes a huge difference
Nice garden tour.
Beautiful.
Love it!!! 😍
i think this yard is really sweet. i love the shade myself and smaller gardens like this can be such a joy! any idea where the homeowner got the candle holder on the back of the house? love your aesthetic and your videos Yuliya!
So Pretty!!!
Beautiful garden! New subscriber and I love your videos!
Im in z9 southern California. I live on 3/4 acre upscale neighborhood - ranch style home. I love flowers and color and I enjoy doing my own hard work. I need ideas for all day full sun front of the house gardens. Do you have anything you can post here online?
Thank you for sharing your work with us! I love it.
Lisa Gomez I live in Florida zone 9b my yard is in full sun. What I found works for me are butterfly bushes, roses, hibiscus (my weeping hibiscus tree is beautiful), lavender, salvia, Baptisia, Joseph’s coat, petunias, pentas , angelonia, crepe myrtles, dianthus, Lantana, veronica, and geraniums. My advice is check out your Nurseries or big box stores and don’t be afraid to try something. Good luck!
What a great yard!
Try to plant a bleeding heart (Lamprocapnos spectabilis) in your garden. You will be delighted with how beautiful it blooms in the shade! Also i am in zone 6 and i love these flowers.
T y for the before &after...
And the plans@the end.
Wow! I absolutely love it....the whole property. So beautiful and I love the choice of colors. Also the color of the phlox ...my favorite shade of pink. I cannot find a phlox that will live in my yard though but maybe it is too sunny here.
Thank you so much! This phlox prefer sunny location but will tolerate shade like in this backyard
Most Phlox love sun, I'm sure you can find some. Stolonifera is basically the one that appreciates some shade.
I just love shady spaces. The little seating space in the back is such a private little space- that can be hard to create in an already mall space.
Thank you so much! 😀
Do you remember where you purchased the 'Chesapeake" Holly? Was it already a mature plant or did you purchase it small? If small, how long did it take to grow as a screen? I have a wrought iron fence that I'm trying to cover and provide privacy from 4 dogs and their humans. Would prefer something that's evergreen and grows fast in zone 5b. Any suggestions? Beautiful. Thanks for sharing.
Chesapeake was brought in by our contractor at about 4’ tall and grew to about 5.5 feet in four years. Try it, they are great screen!
Just a little bit late but just for interest I will let you know what plants/flowers I love 3????? Honestly that is like asking me of my three children, 6 grandchildren I love best!
Right now we are in Winter so I have to mention my sensory Smell is leading me to my three.
1. Daphne Adora pink wins first place hands down. It actually is the second time it has flowered 2 months early but in January it also flowered. Not all the daphnes have flowered twice so far in my 25 town house village here in Eltham Victoria Australia 🇦🇺
2. Hyacinth I did force two in the vases with the collar so the bulb doesn’t fall into the water. I, or my brain couldn’t handle the strong scent but the lonely bulb has recently flowered it is opposite the daphne and 3 steps from my front door, the other two hyacinths are on both her left and right and looking very sad and sorry for itself.
3. White jonquils have just begun to open up thankfully not all at the same time.
But next year the Hellebores (Winter Roses) I ordered from Post Office Farm Nursery last night, I will keep my fingers crossed that where I plant them near to the daphne under a dark purple leaf cherry tree is perfect for them.
Deciding on what to order wasn’t easy but I decided on 3 of the 6 pack mixed and 1 of every picotee they had available.
It is Thursday and we don’t have mail delivered on Saturday except before Christmas for 2 Saturdays so I will have to wait until Monday maybe Tuesday.
The area has been worked on and with sugar cane mulch on the whole area I have had the privilege of meeting two huge fat worms 🪱 I hadn’t seen prior to the mulching. I am also into no dig gardening.
Today I show large boxes being taken out the back of the local Fruit and Vegetable Shop called Harvest I said could I have those and I got a resounding YES they are about 6 ft by 3 ft from holding advertising posters etc.
I went to Aldi two doors down and coming back to return the trolley I noticed he had a foam box for broccoli 🥦 (yucky)! I got that too and I will use it to hold the bottles where I will do your winter seeding.
I broadcasted some nasturtiums a while ago and I have found I have many growing and all are very happy growing through the sugar cane mulch. I had a marigold pop up and doing well but the fellow who weed whacked chopped it up? Not very happy before with his terrible attitude but now I will be pushing for someone maybe a lady who cares about what we residents love 💕. Maybe some more will come up as I kept broadcasting the seeds when I deadheaded the flowers.
My petunias have been flowering through 3 seasons and I keep dead heading them too so there is no space between them at all and creeping further inland ha ha.
Dahlias, chrysanthemums, galardias and anemones Japanese Wind Flowers love them all.
I hope to be able to find more of North American native plants and flowers here in Australia 🇦🇺.
I have taken over the care of my back wall community garden and after cleaning it up and finding plants which were just left next to the wall facing West and lots of large fat leaved jade and Chinese lanterns, abutilon I believe trees gone crazy. So my friend did her crazy with her Fiskars and branch saw, another lady brought over her small chain saw and we ended up with a huge pile of branches and un wanted plants.
I hope to grow hydrangeas there as the same type of area 4 doors away has hydrangeas growing there as well as bulbs jonquils and a lemon 🍋 tree. We can pick when needed so I love that.
The oldest resident is 97 and I am nearly 72 yo the third youngest you must be over 50 to buy or rent like I do. But most move here around their late sixties and early 70’s. So these community gardens are left to us babies to care for or this gardener will just mow over everything???
Thank you so much for doing what you are doing I certainly enjoy it and I have given your name to a young landscape designer (she has over 200 dahlias) and I hope she has some time to view some of your videos. She is a mum of two children on the spectrum and I asked was her husband on it too. Yes the Apple never fails far from the tree.
My daughter has the same situation and she works in the industry to create a better life once leaving school and becoming independent.
I taught at a Special School and I was a pig in mud!
Huge hugs all the way from Eltham Victoria Australia 🇦🇺
Check my location out it is very natural here.
Thank you ! 😊
Interessanti soluzioni! Bravissima la signorina! Un saluto dall'Italia😄
Grazie mille!
Thanks for sharing! I really like the bluestone pavers. Was the difficult to do?
It is not hard as construction goes but labor intensive. Each slab is pretty heavy so two people is a must
Thank you!!! compost tumbler, is there a tutorial on composting? I'd love to start this year. Cheers
Great judgement call
On hiring carpenter
The lines look good at the utility
I am interested at the begining in the background there is a hedge... Can you tell me what kind of hedge is planted?!... Thank you!!!.... The video as always interesting and lovely...
I used Japanese hollies - 'Steeds' and 'Compacta'
Another job well done. Interesting about the shade tree protection. That would frustrate me being a gardener. I just had two huge trees cut down because of morning shade on my garden.
oh no, we need approval for every tree removal. in fact if you remove one you must replace it with another! most of the lots in my area have tons of shade and really challenging for a garden.
@@greatgardensforall wow! That's challenging. You are so correct about the challenge of growing gardens with so much shade. Talk to you soon
What a great little garden. I have one question about mirrors in the garden. what happens when the sun hits it? Particularly in summer? Does it reflect too brightly for the plants?
Great question! I only place then on a northern side. There is a way to use then elsewhere but it needs a little work positioning to avoid glare.
Hi from cold, frosty Australia. Down to about -2 in winter and 45 in summer, very hot and dry.
Wow! Now that's extreme gardening! :)
PollinateOrDie enthusiastically approves of this video:) Loved the shout-outs for holly instead of boxwoods and for the wildlife beneficial Black Cherry tree. I've noticed a new holly at Lowe's called a "Scallywag Holly/Ilex x meserveae 'Monnieves' . To me it's a much prettier holly than any other I've seen. The new growth has a red tinge to it. It's a male holly so unfortunately no red berries:(
I don't know if you've ever seen any videos featuring a guy name Doug Tallamy. He's heavily into native/wildlife beneficial plants and has numerous Eco talks here on RUclips. He has Black Cherry at #2 on his list of beneficial trees after oak trees. Aside from his presentations, he's been featured a couple of times on a channel called EcoBeneficial which is done by a woman named Kim Eierman. Very educational and well worth taking a look at.
Loving you showing us what you've created for your clients. I'm very surprised the patio was considered impermeable hardscape. After all, water can run through the cracks. I love trees but I'd hate to live where I couldn't cut one down if needed. Everyone has a wrong tree wrong place issue from time to time.
Thank you so much! love Doug Tallamy, have a number of his books and also have been to some of his talks. Black cherries are great trees for a park or wooded areas but so messy at residential lots! thank you so much for your input :)
Interesting ideas
You have a beautiful garden. My question is how do u control rodents in your garden. I have tough time because of these rodents.
Try Tomcat products. We had a mice infestation this spring in the house and their traps works incredibly well.
Very nice
so what is considered a big yard??
mine is 47' X 46'
and i live in south Texas
Do you know the mature size of those Compacta Holly? Growth rate?
Oh
Mirrors
Hi, Yuliya! I called you "Y" in a comment, I hope you weren't offended.
What do you suggest for a fence? Which color do you prefer?
i love natural cedar fences. I have a black fence myself and LOVE it!
@@greatgardensforall Thank you. Next year I am going to build a fence, but I was thinking in the color too.
Nice video
Thank you!
So you turned the garage into a shed?
They converted garage into a den and an extra bathroom. The storage is an add on. Thanks for watching!
are these properties yours?
No, i am a landscape designer and help people design their gardens. Thank you for watching!
It's a real shame, with my lap top at max volume I can't hear you
Polish?
Me? Russian 😊
Cute yard but Sorry this is not def the “urban “ part of NJ at all.
That's what i thought! but when we were filling out paperwork for some permits this area was considered 'urban' and had lots of restrictions. Go figure! maybe it's the density of the population? 🤔
Impermeable