I just found you today, June 2024!! How about you do an annual update show!! Would love to see how things are growing. You have given these pensioners hope and inspiration for our perennial garden!!
Oh my goodness, that just breaks my heart. I was lucky enough to find you a few months ago. You are a remarkable individual with so much knowledge and love for plants. We felt your passion and thank you for it. I hope your garden continues to thrive and grow and please know that you inspired me with each of your videos. Cheers! (P.S. I planted a few balloon flowers- thanks to you and now when I look at them, I'll think of you). Goodbye, dear friend.
It's lovely to hear that I have inspired you. There is nothing more gratifying than planting and growing. Hopefully my garden is now on the right track. I am so looking forward to seeing it progress and mature.
I just now found you today. I watched your video on pruning forsythia. What a wonderful video! But, now I found that you have left RUclips. Just so you know, your expertise and personality made a great RUclips gardener. I’m going to make my way through your other 100 videos to get more insight. Thank you for generously sharing your garden with us.
Thank you so much! I have a garden with 90 year old shrubs. Your shrub rejuvenation videos are so detailed, I feel newly confident in taking care of my heirloom roses and forsythia.
So sad to hear it’s your final video Una. I’ve learned so much from you, particularly on the pruning front - my shrubs are less scared of me now when I walk past with the hedge trimmers 😂. You have so many different areas and aspects to your garden - every one improved 100% because of your knowledge and hard work. Keep on enjoying and relaxing in your beautiful garden. Hasta luego, Paul
So sorry you are leaving us Una. It's been a very enjoyable journey seeing and learning from you. Turning your ugly duckling into a beautiful swan. Such a lot of hard work, but it was worth it, your garden is beautiful. May l wish you every happiness (and your family) in whatever you decide to do.👋 😁💐🐞🦋🐝
Thank you very much Penelope. It has been a lot of hard work but little by little it took shape. What a journey, thank you for the company is along the way!
I just found your channel because of my overgrown ancient forsythia. I wanted to know how to properly rejuvenate it. Thank you. I am subscribing to watch your other videos even though no new ones will be forthcoming. Thanks...
Like everyone else I'm sorry to see the end of your videos. You've been both an inspiration, and a good teacher. I will miss your weekly updates, seeing your progress and hearing your lovely accent. Since I've been watching your videos Ive thought "if she can, I can" so I did! Thank you for that. Best wishes for the future for you, your family, and your garden.
I love that you have been inspired by the videos. I think as we get older there is a real danger of slipping into a negative mindset where we wrap ourselves in cotton wool and feel we are past our sell by date. My Mum learned to play the piano at 70!!! You are never too old and you can always adapt your garden to suit your requirements. I have always been independent and while I love my husband helping, I don't need him to help. I can use chainsaws, electric drills just the same as he can. We just need to believe in ourselves! So keep gardening and keep pushing the limits!
@@GrannysGarden You're so right. I bought my mini hand-held chain saw because I saw you using one. Now I also have a 14" electric chainsaw that I use on occasion. I don't need my husband to do everything for me, but of course his help is appreciated. I like doing the work, and making the decisions, myself. I've always been very independent, and proud if it. You've helped me to make decisions though by giving me good information to use to make sections. I will always be grateful gor that. You said there are are plenty of gardening videos out there. You're right about that. What I made yours grab my attention first was that you're about my age and still not just gardening, but making informative videos about gardening, not just the "how to" but also the "why" in many cases. I can understand why you're done with the extra work required to put out the videos. I wouldn't mind cutting back on some work myself and spending more time in the garden.
All your advice has been so sensible, useful and focused. I've made notes, particularly to your advice re Italian cypress hedges, nitrogen fertilizing and fungicides and insecticides. All of what you say is direct and that is unusual for many You Tube videos. My new Italian Cypresses are going in in March. Hasta luego, don't give up your vid postings, many of us are delighted with them.
Oh no! I only recently discovered your channel and have already learned so much, like today, the fact you can grow two climbing plants together! I think I can speak for us all when I say we hope you’ll reconsider. If not, thank you for all you have shared. Wishing you lots of wonderful gardening ahead.
Thank you. This was always about filming a 3 year plan to recover a neglected garden so I can't see myself giving updates in the future, although I will try to post on Instagram more frequently. Planting 2 climbers together is a great way to get more seasonal interest from 1 pergola or obelisk... ..2 for the price of one!
@@GrannysGarden well I will just have to go back and watch the earlier videos as I just bought a place with a neglected garden to redo! Thanks again, and see you on Instagram.
I go take the keys to a small vacation home in Andalusia this week. It has been sitting empty for 5 years and the various trees need a lot of love. Eventually we hope to retire there, and I look forward to having a beautiful Mediterranean, high-elevation garden. Thank you for sharing your journey. It is great reference.
Oh dear! I have only just found you! I have just started a gardening channel on here a few months ago and I must say you are very inspiring and I love your interaction with the camera. I am in my early 50’s and it was a pleasant change to see a mature person on here not scared to get in front of the camera. You are an inspiration. I hope that you may come back here someday. Take care and enjoy your garden 💕
It took me quite a while to relax in front of the camera. By the time I reached the end of the RUclips journey I was quite enjoying myself and you meet some great gardeners along the way. I feel that there is a place for more mature gardeners on RUclips and hopefully we will inspire people to get out there shovel and power tools in hand. So go for it and enjoy the journey.
I enjoyed this garden tour so much - the farewell part, not so much. Una, you've been the best teacher - I've learned so much from you, and I will miss you! You should be so proud of yourself - you had a plan, stuck to it, and it has paid off in spades. Thank you for teaching me HOW to prune properly. I also learned about the Sango Kaku, the Flamingo tree, a rose fountain, and SO MUCH MORE. I loved finding the hidden treasure - your hidden patio - with you. I will miss your Irish humor. I found you during Covid through the Enthusiastic Gardener Janette. I loved your Christmas videos - your ornament collection and your Nativity collection, too. I wish you and your family well - enjoy your grandson and your garden. HASTA SIEMPRE Y MI GRACIAS!!!!!!!!!!!
A beautiful comment Deborah.....we have seen many a battle together and with a few bumps and scratches have come out victorious on the other side! All I need now is patience to watch the garden mature and of course to maintain it to stop it getting out of hand again. Hasta siempre Deborah!
What a beautiful garden! I just found you today. Watched a couple videos. Hoping to see all your other videos. I moved from an old beautiful house with landscape that needed completely redone as well. I reworked the mostly shaded space for 20 some years. My perfect spot. Had to downsize. Now we live on a much bigger lot in a small house with full sun nearly on every foot! Starting over, but great fun. Much older now, also a granny, so going slower. I enjoy your love and enthusiasm for gardening. I live in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, USA. I have two lovely Crape Myrtle trees. We call it “Crape Murder” here! Shameful, ugly knuckles! Not in my yard! Thank you for your videos, your knowledge and encouragement. Your hard work in your corner of the world is beautiful! God bless. Good health!
Thank you for sharing your journey with us. You have done so much and given so much inspiration. I must say it does make me sad to say goodbye. But I will continue to follow your progress on Instagram xxx
Thanks Rachel. I will try to post more often on Instagram (so far I have been a disaster in that respect). I certainly have enjoyed the journey and especially the people I have met along the way. I will continue to follow your channel and keep up with all the news in Douentza garden.
I just found you tonight looking for how to winter my caladiums...I'm sad to see you aren't going to do the RUclips anymore. I will watch your other videos.
GET OUT !!!!! I was wondering...... where the heck is she????????? Had to look in my subscriptions cause we'll, you know how it is. I will miss you greatly and hope you both stay healthy and don't hurt yourselves! So like so many had said.... its sad to not see you or your garden. So if you get bored, ha ha! Pop back in it wi be a joy to see your mug !
Thank you for taking the leap and sharing your journey here. I'm trying to learn Environmental Science and I was curious about regrowing trees, and you provided a really great video.
Hello there Lovley garden lady. Hope my message finds you still enjoying your garden. Thank you for your past posts. Going forward would you please consider doing a monthly post or just one post to see your delightful as it is now.
Una, just finished watching before work this morning. I have loved every minute of every weekly episode. I really don’t know what to say … you’ve been my support and friend and favourite fellow RUclipsr, but it’s not goodbye, friends forever now. I hope you can now find a bit more time to start writing your pruning book. I feel sad, but I’m very happy for you at the same time. You’re just amazing. I’ll be in touch my dear friend 🥰
Thanks Janette. Ever since our collaboration on my first Christmas on RUclips a wonderful friendship developed and it will continue behind the scenes... Friends forever. I will probably take a few months off to enjoy the garden and my next grandson is due in November so no rest for the wicked! I would like to start writing next year but taking things calmly. Lots of ideas for the book racing around in my head, I just need to knock them into shape. We are right in the middle of a brutal heatwave right now so I can only garden up until 11am and then after 7pm. The rest of the time we are hiding inside the house and the poor doggies are flat out on the stone floors! I'll keep in contact 😘
@@GrannysGarden we are heading for a heatwave too. How exciting to have another grandchild. You have so many wonderful things ahead. I may even visit one day 🤣🥰
@@TheEnthusiasticGardener I see that the UK is totally unequipped for a heatwave. 30 degrees and you already have wildfires, train tracks buckling, train sleepers on fire... goodness I don't know what is going to happen this Sunday with some temperatures up to 43 degrees in parts of the UK🤣🤣🤣! Do please come over...... there is a lovely swimming pool waiting for you!
Thank you so much for sharing your journey and so sorry this is your last RUclips video. You have worked so hard to bring your garden back. I have learned so much. Thanks again.
Wow! I'm shocked! I have always enjoyed watching you since I came across you I believe last fall. You will be missed! You are a joy to listen to and you always answered my questions. If it wasn't for you, dear lady, I wouldn't have been able to be successful with my Bleeding Heart plants. Your advice was GOLDEN! I hope you and your husband have a great retirement and enjoy life to the fullest. Take care!
Una, I just discovered your channel today, and have been binge watching your videos. I just watched your "last" video. I am sooooooo dissapointed your not continuing on with your videos. I understand you completed your 3 year mission, but from the looks of all the well wishers, I think many people would love to see you continueon and make a new journey. You have so much knowledge to share, and your very entertaining with your funny witt, plus that Irish accent is lovely. I loved seeing your garden, it gave me so many ideas to start thinking about for next year. please come back
Thank you so much for your comment. I have been taken aback by the wonderful comments over the last few years. I don't have any plans to come back to RUclips. There are so many great channels out there that cover the weekly/monthly garden tasks. My journey had a starting point and a finishing point. I felt recovering a neglected garden on a budget could be useful to people and put a different slant on the channel. Who knows, maybe I will get some crazy idea in the future and decide to share it. Meanwhile I am getting to enjoy my garden!
@@GrannysGarden thank you for a reply, I do hope you do decide to get a "crazy idea", I know your viewers would love anything else if you decide to share. In the meantime, enjoy your beautiful garden.
On the dead tree behind the bench, why not plant a climbing vine similar to a Climbing Hydrangea? It could become a living sculpture, using the tree as a trellis for the climber.
I'm in shock. I know you had talked about your three-year garden journey, but I didn't realise that meant an end to your posts. So although I'll be so sad not to be seeing more of your videos, I'm absolutely thrilled that I did manage to catch a large proportion of your two years and two months of videos. Thank you so much. I have learned an incredible amount - particularly in relation to maintenance and rejuvenation. I wish you well for the future, enjoy your garden now and maybe some day in the future you'll share how everything has progressed. From this Irish guy in Italy - Grazie di cuore. A presto. Seán
Thank you for filming your journey, but thank you especially for the pruning videos. I don't have roses yet but I do have a Forsythia. I have been asked so many times what it is and when I tell people, they don't believe me. I have the only natural looking, beautiful whippy Forsythia in my town 🙃. So thank you
I am absolutely delighted to hear that. With a bit of luck maybe your neighbours will follow suit and you will have a town full of gorgeous yellow whips!
Hi, I just found you now, looking for videos on pruning photinia... We just planted 26 in our back garden as hedges to block the view of our neighbour.. I really enjoyed your video, and will go through the ones you did.. I am heavy into gardening, myself, here in France.. We bought a house in the countryside, and I have been having fun planting and landscaping our Japanese garden on one side, and English garden on the other side in our front yard.. Cheers and thanks!
ohhhh my goodness wow. I'm happy if you're happy, but an update now and then would be nice hahahaha. best of luck, you've done an amazing job in this garden.
Hi there - I hope you receive this message. I have only just found your site and want to thank you as your film on irises has been invaluable. We are in SW France. Much love xx
Only found your videos today(while searching for pruning advice on viburnum tinus)Twas the Irish accent that made me continue watching!Wowza,you are truly AMAZING! Thank you sooo much for sharing the wonderful advice/suggestions/inspirations/and of course your incredible knowledge & sensiblity/you are a GEM!Continued Good Health,& Enjoyment with your Gardening.Best Wishes,from rainy July in Ireland.p.s. I have enjoyed 2 hours of watching some of your videos, (lots more to watch yet),that "d'other half"is wondering when is dinner!!!!
I just found you, thank you for your videos you've just helped me with my avocado plants. You will be missed, I will make sure to enjoy and learn from the videos you have left here again thank you very much.
I've just found your You Tube channel today. I'm in inland Valencia province and have been planting olives on a 2 hectare campo. Your advice on looking after olive trees has been invaluable, particularly in regard to pruning, fertilizing and how not to water. Many thanks. s
Oh Una, I’m going to miss you. Thank you for sharing all your videos, it’s been fabulous. I’m sad I won’t be seeing the rose fountain in all its glory. Take care 😘
I promise I will post a lovely photo on Instagram of the rose fountain next year. I now have about 8 whips coming out of the top of the fountain and they are now starting to arch over to start the cascade.
So sad to see you leave RUclips Una! I will always have past videos to hear your rapid fire delivery packed with knowledge and humor! I appreciate you sharing your journey with us all. Take care and I have a feeling we will be delighted with your presence once again...fingers crossed LOL!
I just found you a couple of months ago, how knowledgeable you are. You have a gorgeous garden that you have worked so very hard on making it yours. Happy gardening from hot, dry North Texas.
Thank you. We are having a brutal heatwave at the moment and we haven't had rain for several months so everything is dry and crispy. I really feel for people who live in hot dry climates like Texas. It takes a lot of effort to garden in harsh climates and I have to take my hat off to gardeners creating an oasis for both humans and wildlife in such harsh environments.
But I just found your channel! I just finished watching your video on forsythia and it’s a life saver. I was about to get rid of it but now I understand it more. Wishing you the best ❤
Thank you Australia. Isn't it wonderful how RUclips has enabled gardeners from all over the world to meet and comment. It has indeed been a wonderful journey.
Hello! I have learned so much from you. Our olive trees are grateful for your advice and I will certainly miss your gardening tips. Why are you leaving o why? I'm sure your garden will continue to flourish and I wish you the best! Thank you!
Awe I’m so sad you are finishing the weekly garden videos. I wondered why I had not had a notification so went looking for you and was sad to see it was your last 🥲
Loved your video’s, haven’t seen them all yet but I will, every time I just want to hear those birds and you talking garden. My Viburnum is growing with fresh leaves after the big cut a few months ago, thanks to your reassurance that it will survive. Have a lovely time and I do hope to see a video of you in about two years time to see how your garden has matured. Thanks 🙏 and take good care 👋🏼👋🏼
Thank you and I am so glad your Viburnum is doing well. They really are tough little plants and give you great confidence to take on more delicate shrubs in the future.
Its so sad that this is your last video, I found your channel recently and have learnt so much from you. You are fantastic! Thank You and good luck in all you do in the future 😀 😊
I will try to find you on your other platforms in case you don't see this message. I wanted to comment on the spirea video but the comments are turned off. I just found your channel because of that sprirea video. I purchased this homestead property in 2021 and have given the shrubs a year to see what everything will do or what it is. The only things I have removed is some of the plants that are considered an invasive varieties in my area. I now am planning to moved the spirea, and two different camellias. My plans for this property is hindered by where these are growing. In my area of NW FL USA this is best time to move shrubs, it is early November 2022, we are zone 8b. All of these bushes are very old and I am concerned about getting enough root ball to have the move be successful. I plan to cut them all back to about 3' in height and then lift them out and plant them in the new location immediately. I plan to tend to them all winter with water and covers if we have hard freeze. We usually have mild winters here and the ground never freezes. I would appreciate any advice you or viewers may have on this subject. Thank you.
So so sorry to see you go☹️. I’ve loved your videos and watching your beautiful garden change to look so welcoming. I’ve learned so much from your gardening knowledge and I’ve spent more time in my garden because you have motivated me. I’ll miss learning from you. Good luck to you and God Bless you and your family.
I knew I did not see a video lately -- this is very sad -- but I do understand. I've enjoyed your channel and you have been a wealth of information from day one I joined your channel. You will be missed.
Oh my gosh! I found you because im about to buy a cornus controversa variegata dogwood so i put it in search on yt. Then i had to watch what apparently was your farewell garden tour that was one yr later, scanning very carefully for the cornus! " ( lets see it was by the chain link fence not the white fence!)"😂 then you said it didnt do well because it got too wet there!😢 im getting one tomorrow and i loved your excitement when you got yours....i will learn from you. THEN i realized i watched you two yrs ago about the floppy italian cypress trees!! What a memory as you helped me there too! Aww, i think your wonderful and i subscribed anyway so i dont lose you and will be watching all your gardening videos! You were an excellent person to watch! I hope your well, i hope you got that nasty Russian olive out of there without incident.. Couldnt you do a one yr update😂 Hope all is ok in your area, so scary all thats happening everywhere..im in Washington state usa. But we have many similar plants. Love, from usa.
I’m so sad to see you go. I have loved watching your journey and learning from you. You are a great story teller and witty. I hope you you would consider posting some sporadic updates. Wishing all the best and hope to keep in touch in other platforms.
Thank you so much Monica for joining me on this journey. I don't think there will be updates on RUclips but I will try to publish on Instagram more frequently. P.S thank you for the re-post!
I’m so sad to see you go but wish you all the best. Thank you for the videos and sharing your journey. Can you puuuuulease give us a an update a year or two from now and just do a tour for giggles sake so we can see how everything has come along. Especially the roses!!!! Wishing you well.
Thank you so much for your good wishes. I don't think I will return to RUclips but I will try to post now and again on Instagram. I am also looking forward to seeing the roses in 2 years time!!!
Oh dear.... finding me on the last ever video! I have left over 100 videos, so hopefully you might find something of interest there. They cover a wide range of topics and there are quite a few good questions in the comments section.
Thank you so much for sharing all of these informational videos. I have enjoyed them and learned from them and will surely apply some of those plants to our garden. Le deseo mucha suerte y felicidad. En algún momento estamos planeando visitar España ya que es algo que he querido hacer durante mucho tiempo.
Thank you. Excellent Spanish by the way. Spain is a wonderful country and so diverse with the cool green north to the desert of Almería in the south east and everything in between. Well worth a visit, but try to stay away from the tourist spots, that is not Spain!
I moved into our current house last November and inherited many trees, bushes, roses, lilies and purple irises. I noticed today the one area that has irises are right beside a tree and the root is pushing the bulbs to the surface and looking for how to dig the bulbs up to share with family this spring but I do not know best way to store them. I found a video that said to put in brown paper bag and to keep an eye for if they are too moist or too dry, but it didn't say what to look for or how to remedy this. I aporeciate any information. 🤩
Unless RUclips changes its present policy, past videos will remain on YT unless I remove them. However, I don't think they will be very visible. If you are not posting videos regularly then the Algorithm kicks in and the videos will be promoted less and therefore less visible . But for the moment all the pruning videos will still be available!🤣
Hello! I found your channel from your video saving an overwatered young avocado! I have an avocado in a very similar sorry state, except from under watering. However, similar to you, I am about to chop the crown off of mine and stick it under a grow light. I was looking to see if you had some sort of update on the avocado. Did it take well to the beheading? How is it now? Thanks!
I have those same day lillys that you are sitting next too in your intro. Do you know the name of those? I've researched but have been unsuccessful finding the exact type. I love them because they bloom for so long.
I've so enjoyed your videos, and I'm sad to see you sign off! (However, of course, you're entitled to choose when it's time to open a new chapter and close this one.) Like you, pruning is one of my favorite aspects of gardening. I'll certainly be following you on instagram, and as a hopeful request, I'd love to see some before/later pairings of some of the items you did rejuvenation pruning on as the years progress! I have some (very old) camellias and rhododendrons that had been sheared terribly by a previous homeowner and I have been gradually pruning them into tree forms over the years too allow for a woodland planting understory. I'm kicking myself now that I didn't document the "before" but I know from your videos that you have good comparison photos to reference! I also did a major rejuvenation attack on my forsythia with some extra courage from your helpful videos. Thank you so much!
I'm glad you found the videos helpful. And yes it is so important to document and photograph your garden They are a real reference for the future and they are great to look back on.
Aw Una I can’t believe this is your last video. Thank you for taking us on your journey and for all the knowledge and tips you have passed on, I will follow on Instagram and hopefully continue to learn more from you. Love and best wishes Sandra 💙
Why did you block comments on your other videos? I find them so useful because of possibly better ideas, different ways of doing things, sometimes not.
Well I will be sorry to see you go , good luck in what ever new venture you take on . Here's too May sun always shine on you , may the wind be at your back , May you live as long as you want to and want to as long as you live , may you be half a hour in heaven before the devil knows your dead , Slainte
I just found you today, June 2024!! How about you do an annual update show!! Would love to see how things are growing. You have given these pensioners hope and inspiration for our perennial garden!!
Oh my goodness, that just breaks my heart. I was lucky enough to find you a few months ago. You are a remarkable individual with so much knowledge and love for plants. We felt your passion and thank you for it. I hope your garden continues to thrive and grow and please know that you inspired me with each of your videos. Cheers! (P.S. I planted a few balloon flowers- thanks to you and now when I look at them, I'll think of you). Goodbye, dear friend.
It's lovely to hear that I have inspired you. There is nothing more gratifying than planting and growing. Hopefully my garden is now on the right track. I am so looking forward to seeing it progress and mature.
I just now found you today. I watched your video on pruning forsythia. What a wonderful video! But, now I found that you have left RUclips. Just so you know, your expertise and personality made a great RUclips gardener. I’m going to make my way through your other 100 videos to get more insight. Thank you for generously sharing your garden with us.
Thank you so much! I have a garden with 90 year old shrubs. Your shrub rejuvenation videos are so detailed, I feel newly confident in taking care of my heirloom roses and forsythia.
Your knowledge, clear instruction, and energy are super! I go again and again to your iris video to re-learn what I have to do. Muchisimas gracias!
So sad to hear it’s your final video Una. I’ve learned so much from you, particularly on the pruning front - my shrubs are less scared of me now when I walk past with the hedge trimmers 😂.
You have so many different areas and aspects to your garden - every one improved 100% because of your knowledge and hard work.
Keep on enjoying and relaxing in your beautiful garden. Hasta luego, Paul
Thanks very much Paul. I will keep following your channel so beware I will be watching you when you get your hedge trimmers out 🤣🤣🤣
So sorry you are leaving us Una. It's been a very enjoyable journey seeing and learning from you. Turning your ugly duckling into a beautiful swan. Such a lot of hard work, but it was worth it, your garden is beautiful. May l wish you every happiness (and your family) in whatever you decide to do.👋 😁💐🐞🦋🐝
Thank you very much Penelope. It has been a lot of hard work but little by little it took shape. What a journey, thank you for the company is along the way!
I'll miss your videos... thank you!
I just found your channel because of my overgrown ancient forsythia. I wanted to know how to properly rejuvenate it. Thank you. I am subscribing to watch your other videos even though no new ones will be forthcoming. Thanks...
I'm 40sec in and my heart just sank 😳
Like everyone else I'm sorry to see the end of your videos. You've been both an inspiration, and a good teacher. I will miss your weekly updates, seeing your progress and hearing your lovely accent. Since I've been watching your videos Ive thought "if she can, I can" so I did! Thank you for that. Best wishes for the future for you, your family, and your garden.
I love that you have been inspired by the videos. I think as we get older there is a real danger of slipping into a negative mindset where we wrap ourselves in cotton wool and feel we are past our sell by date. My Mum learned to play the piano at 70!!! You are never too old and you can always adapt your garden to suit your requirements. I have always been independent and while I love my husband helping, I don't need him to help. I can use chainsaws, electric drills just the same as he can. We just need to believe in ourselves! So keep gardening and keep pushing the limits!
@@GrannysGarden You're so right. I bought my mini hand-held chain saw because I saw you using one. Now I also have a 14" electric chainsaw that I use on occasion. I don't need my husband to do everything for me, but of course his help is appreciated. I like doing the work, and making the decisions, myself. I've always been very independent, and proud if it. You've helped me to make decisions though by giving me good information to use to make sections. I will always be grateful gor that. You said there are are plenty of gardening videos out there. You're right about that. What I made yours grab my attention first was that you're about my age and still not just gardening, but making informative videos about gardening, not just the "how to" but also the "why" in many cases. I can understand why you're done with the extra work required to put out the videos. I wouldn't mind cutting back on some work myself and spending more time in the garden.
Still haven't forgotten about you! Have a merry merry Christmas 🐻❄️
Merry Christmas to you too!
All your advice has been so sensible, useful and focused. I've made notes, particularly to your advice re Italian cypress hedges, nitrogen fertilizing and fungicides and insecticides. All of what you say is direct and that is unusual for many You Tube videos. My new Italian Cypresses are going in in March. Hasta luego, don't give up your vid postings, many of us are delighted with them.
Oh no! I only recently discovered your channel and have already learned so much, like today, the fact you can grow two climbing plants together! I think I can speak for us all when I say we hope you’ll reconsider. If not, thank you for all you have shared. Wishing you lots of wonderful gardening ahead.
Thank you. This was always about filming a 3 year plan to recover a neglected garden so I can't see myself giving updates in the future, although I will try to post on Instagram more frequently. Planting 2 climbers together is a great way to get more seasonal interest from 1 pergola or obelisk...
..2 for the price of one!
@@GrannysGarden well I will just have to go back and watch the earlier videos as I just bought a place with a neglected garden to redo! Thanks again, and see you on Instagram.
@@VelvetandToads Well now I can sit back and watch your garden recover!!!
@@GrannysGarden ✨
Just discovered you! Thank-you so much for keeping your channel alive! Beautiful and very helpful!
I go take the keys to a small vacation home in Andalusia this week. It has been sitting empty for 5 years and the various trees need a lot of love. Eventually we hope to retire there, and I look forward to having a beautiful Mediterranean, high-elevation garden.
Thank you for sharing your journey. It is great reference.
Oh dear! I have only just found you!
I have just started a gardening channel on here a few months ago and I must say you are very inspiring and I love your interaction with the camera.
I am in my early 50’s and it was a pleasant change to see a mature person on here not scared to get in front of the camera.
You are an inspiration. I hope that you may come back here someday.
Take care and enjoy your garden 💕
It took me quite a while to relax in front of the camera. By the time I reached the end of the RUclips journey I was quite enjoying myself and you meet some great gardeners along the way. I feel that there is a place for more mature gardeners on RUclips and hopefully we will inspire people to get out there shovel and power tools in hand. So go for it and enjoy the journey.
@@GrannysGarden Haha! Thanks so much, I definitely will x
I literally just bumped into your channel last night! I hope you upload again, I am enjoying your videos so much!
Thank you very much.
Oh no!!!! I will miss you my friend! 💔
It’s been 2 + fun years; learning so much from you. #sadday
Thanks Nicole. Thanks for joining me on the journey!
I enjoyed this garden tour so much - the farewell part, not so much.
Una, you've been the best teacher - I've learned so much from you, and I will miss you!
You should be so proud of yourself - you had a plan, stuck to it, and it has paid off in spades.
Thank you for teaching me HOW to prune properly. I also learned about the Sango Kaku, the Flamingo tree, a rose fountain, and SO MUCH MORE.
I loved finding the hidden treasure - your hidden patio - with you. I will miss your Irish humor. I found you during Covid through the Enthusiastic Gardener Janette. I loved your Christmas videos - your ornament collection and your Nativity collection, too.
I wish you and your family well - enjoy your grandson and your garden.
HASTA SIEMPRE Y MI GRACIAS!!!!!!!!!!!
A beautiful comment Deborah.....we have seen many a battle together and with a few bumps and scratches have come out victorious on the other side! All I need now is patience to watch the garden mature and of course to maintain it to stop it getting out of hand again. Hasta siempre Deborah!
@@GrannysGarden Aaanndddd back onto Instagram I go...LOL...so hasta luego!
Thank you for your advice on drooping cypress branches ! All the best!
What a beautiful garden! I just found you today. Watched a couple videos. Hoping to see all your other videos. I moved from an old beautiful house with landscape that needed completely redone as well. I reworked the mostly shaded space for 20 some years. My perfect spot. Had to downsize. Now we live on a much bigger lot in a small house with full sun nearly on every foot! Starting over, but great fun. Much older now, also a granny, so going slower. I enjoy your love and enthusiasm for gardening. I live in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, USA. I have two lovely Crape Myrtle trees. We call it “Crape Murder” here! Shameful, ugly knuckles! Not in my yard! Thank you for your videos, your knowledge and encouragement. Your hard work in your corner of the world is beautiful! God bless. Good health!
Thank you for sharing your journey with us. You have done so much and given so much inspiration. I must say it does make me sad to say goodbye. But I will continue to follow your progress on Instagram xxx
Thanks Rachel. I will try to post more often on Instagram (so far I have been a disaster in that respect). I certainly have enjoyed the journey and especially the people I have met along the way. I will continue to follow your channel and keep up with all the news in Douentza garden.
I just found you tonight looking for how to winter my caladiums...I'm sad to see you aren't going to do the RUclips anymore. I will watch your other videos.
Thank for sharing your gardens with us over the years. All the best always!
Hasta Siempre Amigos.
Hasta siempre 😘
GET OUT !!!!! I was wondering...... where the heck is she????????? Had to look in my subscriptions cause we'll, you know how it is. I will miss you greatly and hope you both stay healthy and don't hurt yourselves! So like so many had said.... its sad to not see you or your garden. So if you get bored, ha ha! Pop back in it wi be a joy to see your mug !
Well, hello and good bye! Because of you, I saved my Avacado plant.. I was so happy to see your videos! Take care!!!
Love your rose pruning vid. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge.
Thank you for your comment!
Thank you for taking the leap and sharing your journey here. I'm trying to learn Environmental Science and I was curious about regrowing trees, and you provided a really great video.
Thank you for sharing your garden journey. I will miss you!
Thank you so much!
Sorry to see you go. I've enjoyed the wonderful "taste of Spain" that you represented. God be with you in whatever your next chapter brings.
Thank you. What a combination...an Irish lady in Spain!
Wishing you all the best! I have so enjoyed watching your videos and will miss them.
Thank you very much. I will miss all the lovely comments!
Hello there Lovley garden lady. Hope my message finds you still enjoying your garden. Thank you for your past posts. Going forward would you please consider doing a monthly post or just one post to see your delightful as it is now.
Una, just finished watching before work this morning. I have loved every minute of every weekly episode. I really don’t know what to say … you’ve been my support and friend and favourite fellow RUclipsr, but it’s not goodbye, friends forever now. I hope you can now find a bit more time to start writing your pruning book. I feel sad, but I’m very happy for you at the same time. You’re just amazing. I’ll be in touch my dear friend 🥰
Thanks Janette. Ever since our collaboration on my first Christmas on RUclips a wonderful friendship developed and it will continue behind the scenes... Friends forever.
I will probably take a few months off to enjoy the garden and my next grandson is due in November so no rest for the wicked! I would like to start writing next year but taking things calmly. Lots of ideas for the book racing around in my head, I just need to knock them into shape.
We are right in the middle of a brutal heatwave right now so I can only garden up until 11am and then after 7pm. The rest of the time we are hiding inside the house and the poor doggies are flat out on the stone floors!
I'll keep in contact 😘
@@GrannysGarden we are heading for a heatwave too. How exciting to have another grandchild. You have so many wonderful things ahead. I may even visit one day 🤣🥰
@@TheEnthusiasticGardener I see that the UK is totally unequipped for a heatwave. 30 degrees and you already have wildfires, train tracks buckling, train sleepers on fire... goodness I don't know what is going to happen this Sunday with some temperatures up to 43 degrees in parts of the UK🤣🤣🤣!
Do please come over...... there is a lovely swimming pool waiting for you!
Just found your channel, sad to see it go but will enjoy the videos you have.
Thanks for beautiful sharing
Thank you!
Oh I will miss your videos. Wishing all the best to you and to your garden.
Thank you Maria.
Thank you so much for sharing your journey and so sorry this is your last RUclips video. You have worked so hard to bring your garden back. I have learned so much. Thanks again.
Thank you for joining me on the journey!
Just discovered you today. You are a natural and I've learned so much from your videos. Thank you.
Thank you for your lovely comment.
Wow! I'm shocked! I have always enjoyed watching you since I came across you I believe last fall. You will be missed! You are a joy to listen to and you always answered my questions. If it wasn't for you, dear lady, I wouldn't have been able to be successful with my Bleeding Heart plants. Your advice was GOLDEN! I hope you and your husband have a great retirement and enjoy life to the fullest. Take care!
Thank you Michael for joining me and always for your lovely comments. I'm so glad your Bleeding Hearts are doing well!
Thank you for your helpful videos and I wish you all the best.
Thank you very much!
@@GrannysGarden your welcome I'll stay subscribed incase you make some more in the future.
Una, I just discovered your channel today, and have been binge watching your videos. I just watched your "last" video. I am sooooooo dissapointed your not continuing on with your videos. I understand you completed your 3 year mission, but from the looks of all the well wishers, I think many people would love to see you continueon and make a new journey. You have so much knowledge to share, and your very entertaining with your funny witt, plus that Irish accent is lovely. I loved seeing your garden, it gave me so many ideas to start thinking about for next year. please come back
Thank you so much for your comment. I have been taken aback by the wonderful comments over the last few years. I don't have any plans to come back to RUclips. There are so many great channels out there that cover the weekly/monthly garden tasks. My journey had a starting point and a finishing point. I felt recovering a neglected garden on a budget could be useful to people and put a different slant on the channel. Who knows, maybe I will get some crazy idea in the future and decide to share it. Meanwhile I am getting to enjoy my garden!
@@GrannysGarden thank you for a reply, I do hope you do decide to get a "crazy idea", I know your viewers would love anything else if you decide to share. In the meantime, enjoy your beautiful garden.
On the dead tree behind the bench, why not plant a climbing vine similar to a Climbing Hydrangea? It could become a living sculpture, using the tree as a trellis for the climber.
I will miss your weekly videos. Thank you for all your wonderful advice. Enjoy your lovely garden! X
It's a high maintenance garden, so I certainly won't get bored anytime soon!!!
I'm in shock. I know you had talked about your three-year garden journey, but I didn't realise that meant an end to your posts. So although I'll be so sad not to be seeing more of your videos, I'm absolutely thrilled that I did manage to catch a large proportion of your two years and two months of videos. Thank you so much. I have learned an incredible amount - particularly in relation to maintenance and rejuvenation. I wish you well for the future, enjoy your garden now and maybe some day in the future you'll share how everything has progressed. From this Irish guy in Italy - Grazie di cuore. A presto. Seán
Looks like we Irish are scattered all over the globe. Thank you for joining me from Italy on the journey!
@@GrannysGarden Yes, we are !
Thank you for filming your journey, but thank you especially for the pruning videos. I don't have roses yet but I do have a Forsythia. I have been asked so many times what it is and when I tell people, they don't believe me. I have the only natural looking, beautiful whippy Forsythia in my town 🙃. So thank you
I am absolutely delighted to hear that. With a bit of luck maybe your neighbours will follow suit and you will have a town full of gorgeous yellow whips!
Hi, I just found you now, looking for videos on pruning photinia... We just planted 26 in our back garden as hedges to block the view of our neighbour.. I really enjoyed your video, and will go through the ones you did.. I am heavy into gardening, myself, here in France.. We bought a house in the countryside, and I have been having fun planting and landscaping our Japanese garden on one side, and English garden on the other side in our front yard.. Cheers and thanks!
ohhhh my goodness wow. I'm happy if you're happy, but an update now and then would be nice hahahaha. best of luck, you've done an amazing job in this garden.
Thank you very much!
Thank you for sharing your knowledge, it has been so helpful. Very best wishes for future projects you may have. 🥰
Thank you very much for your kind wishes
Hi there - I hope you receive this message. I have only just found your site and want to thank you as your film on irises has been invaluable. We are in SW France. Much love xx
Only found your videos today(while searching for pruning advice on viburnum tinus)Twas the Irish accent that made me continue watching!Wowza,you are truly AMAZING! Thank you sooo much for sharing the wonderful advice/suggestions/inspirations/and of course your incredible knowledge & sensiblity/you are a GEM!Continued Good Health,& Enjoyment with your Gardening.Best Wishes,from rainy July in Ireland.p.s. I have enjoyed 2 hours of watching some of your videos, (lots more to watch yet),that "d'other half"is wondering when is dinner!!!!
I just found you, thank you for your videos you've just helped me with my avocado plants. You will be missed, I will make sure to enjoy and learn from the videos you have left here again thank you very much.
I've just found your You Tube channel today. I'm in inland Valencia province and have been planting olives on a 2 hectare campo. Your advice on looking after olive trees has been invaluable, particularly in regard to pruning, fertilizing and how not to water. Many thanks.
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Oh Una, I’m going to miss you. Thank you for sharing all your videos, it’s been fabulous. I’m sad I won’t be seeing the rose fountain in all its glory. Take care 😘
I promise I will post a lovely photo on Instagram of the rose fountain next year. I now have about 8 whips coming out of the top of the fountain and they are now starting to arch over to start the cascade.
So sad to see you leave RUclips Una! I will always have past videos to hear your rapid fire delivery packed with knowledge and humor! I appreciate you sharing your journey with us all. Take care and I have a feeling we will be delighted with your presence once again...fingers crossed LOL!
Thank you.... rapid fire!(sometimes too fast) 🤣.
I just found you a couple of months ago, how knowledgeable you are. You have a gorgeous garden that you have worked so very hard on making it yours. Happy gardening from hot, dry North Texas.
Thank you. We are having a brutal heatwave at the moment and we haven't had rain for several months so everything is dry and crispy. I really feel for people who live in hot dry climates like Texas. It takes a lot of effort to garden in harsh climates and I have to take my hat off to gardeners creating an oasis for both humans and wildlife in such harsh environments.
Thank you sharing your 3year garden plan
Thank you!
Thank you for sharing your gardening journey! I will miss your gardening videos :-(
Thank you!
Just found your channel. You are an inspiration! I appreciate all of the hard work you've put into making your knowledge available! Cheers 🥂 -Jon
Thank you!
But I just found your channel! I just finished watching your video on forsythia and it’s a life saver. I was about to get rid of it but now I understand it more. Wishing you the best ❤
Thanks so much from Australia.
Thank you Australia. Isn't it wonderful how RUclips has enabled gardeners from all over the world to meet and comment. It has indeed been a wonderful journey.
Thank you so much I have thoroughly enjoyed your journey
I will miss the Thursday night videos😔
Thank you very much for joining me on Thursdays!
Hello! I have learned so much from you. Our olive trees are grateful for your advice and I will certainly miss your gardening tips. Why are you leaving o why? I'm sure your garden will continue to flourish and I wish you the best! Thank you!
Awe I’m so sad you are finishing the weekly garden videos. I wondered why I had not had a notification so went looking for you and was sad to see it was your last 🥲
Thank you. I will also miss chatting with all of you!
Loved your video’s, haven’t seen them all yet but I will, every time I just want to hear those birds and you talking garden. My Viburnum is growing with fresh leaves after the big cut a few months ago, thanks to your reassurance that it will survive. Have a lovely time and I do hope to see a video of you in about two years time to see how your garden has matured. Thanks 🙏 and take good care 👋🏼👋🏼
Thank you and I am so glad your Viburnum is doing well. They really are tough little plants and give you great confidence to take on more delicate shrubs in the future.
Thanks~ well edition ~buddy!😮
I’m so sad to hear this!! I just found your channel today! Thank you for your tips!
Thank you! I will be leaving the videos on RUclips if you would like to continue to watch some.
@@GrannysGarden Thank you! I will!
Just found you what a shame your stopping beautiful garden
Its so sad that this is your last video, I found your channel recently and have learnt so much from you. You are fantastic! Thank You and good luck in all you do in the future 😀 😊
Thank you very much!
I will try to find you on your other platforms in case you don't see this message. I wanted to comment on the spirea video but the comments are turned off. I just found your channel because of that sprirea video. I purchased this homestead property in 2021 and have given the shrubs a year to see what everything will do or what it is. The only things I have removed is some of the plants that are considered an invasive varieties in my area. I now am planning to moved the spirea, and two different camellias. My plans for this property is hindered by where these are growing. In my area of NW FL USA this is best time to move shrubs, it is early November 2022, we are zone 8b. All of these bushes are very old and I am concerned about getting enough root ball to have the move be successful. I plan to cut them all back to about 3' in height and then lift them out and plant them in the new location immediately. I plan to tend to them all winter with water and covers if we have hard freeze. We usually have mild winters here and the ground never freezes. I would appreciate any advice you or viewers may have on this subject. Thank you.
So so sorry to see you go☹️. I’ve loved your videos and watching your beautiful garden change to look so welcoming. I’ve learned so much from your gardening knowledge and I’ve spent more time in my garden because you have motivated me. I’ll miss learning from you. Good luck to you and God Bless you and your family.
Thank you. It is lovely to hear that I have been able to share some knowledge and motivate people.
I still miss you and your videos!
I knew I did not see a video lately -- this is very sad -- but I do understand. I've enjoyed your channel and you have been a wealth of information from day one I joined your channel. You will be missed.
Thank you so much for your lovely comment. I wish you well with your channel and your business in the future!
Found your channel late, have enjoyed your videos on this journey. Best wishes, you will be missed.
Thank you!
Oh my gosh! I found you because im about to buy a cornus controversa variegata dogwood so i put it in search on yt. Then i had to watch what apparently was your farewell garden tour that was one yr later, scanning very carefully for the cornus! " ( lets see it was by the chain link fence not the white fence!)"😂 then you said it didnt do well because it got too wet there!😢 im getting one tomorrow and i loved your excitement when you got yours....i will learn from you.
THEN i realized i watched you two yrs ago about the floppy italian cypress trees!! What a memory as you helped me there too!
Aww, i think your wonderful and i subscribed anyway so i dont lose you and will be watching all your gardening videos! You were an excellent person to watch!
I hope your well, i hope you got that nasty Russian olive out of there without incident..
Couldnt you do a one yr update😂
Hope all is ok in your area, so scary all thats happening everywhere..im in Washington state usa. But we have many similar plants.
Love, from usa.
I’m so sad to see you go. I have loved watching your journey and learning from you. You are a great story teller and witty. I hope you you would consider posting some sporadic updates. Wishing all the best and hope to keep in touch in other platforms.
Thank you so much Monica for joining me on this journey. I don't think there will be updates on RUclips but I will try to publish on Instagram more frequently. P.S thank you for the re-post!
I've only just found your channel and have learned so much from your videos. Thank you for the lovely time sharing knowledge with the world!
Thank you for the lovely comment!
I’m so sad to see you go but wish you all the best. Thank you for the videos and sharing your journey. Can you puuuuulease give us a an update a year or two from now and just do a tour for giggles sake so we can see how everything has come along. Especially the roses!!!! Wishing you well.
Thank you so much for your good wishes. I don't think I will return to RUclips but I will try to post now and again on Instagram. I am also looking forward to seeing the roses in 2 years time!!!
So sad this is a fair well video. I just found your channel today
Oh dear.... finding me on the last ever video!
I have left over 100 videos, so hopefully you might find something of interest there. They cover a wide range of topics and there are quite a few good questions in the comments section.
Thank you so much for sharing all of these informational videos. I have enjoyed them and learned from them and will surely apply some of those plants to our garden. Le deseo mucha suerte y felicidad. En algún momento estamos planeando visitar España ya que es algo que he querido hacer durante mucho tiempo.
Thank you. Excellent Spanish by the way. Spain is a wonderful country and so diverse with the cool green north to the desert of Almería in the south east and everything in between. Well worth a visit, but try to stay away from the tourist spots, that is not Spain!
@@GrannysGarden thanks for the advice!
I moved into our current house last November and inherited many trees, bushes, roses, lilies and purple irises. I noticed today the one area that has irises are right beside a tree and the root is pushing the bulbs to the surface and looking for how to dig the bulbs up to share with family this spring but I do not know best way to store them. I found a video that said to put in brown paper bag and to keep an eye for if they are too moist or too dry, but it didn't say what to look for or how to remedy this. I aporeciate any information. 🤩
Thanks for your videos and your enthusiasm. Will your past videos remain on you tube?
Unless RUclips changes its present policy, past videos will remain on YT unless I remove them. However, I don't think they will be very visible. If you are not posting videos regularly then the Algorithm kicks in and the videos will be promoted less and therefore less visible . But for the moment all the pruning videos will still be available!🤣
Mrs. Holly Furtick brought me here!!!😍😍😍
Ah that's the end. 😢 But I support you doing life your way... It's so short we must make the most of every moment. Farewell.
Thank you. I have thoroughly enjoyed myself on this journey.
Hello! I found your channel from your video saving an overwatered young avocado! I have an avocado in a very similar sorry state, except from under watering. However, similar to you, I am about to chop the crown off of mine and stick it under a grow light.
I was looking to see if you had some sort of update on the avocado. Did it take well to the beheading? How is it now?
Thanks!
No! I just found you today and have planned on watching all your past posts. 😢
..me too…😢
I really wanted an update on the regrowth mines 5 years in
Thank you 🙏
very nice video
thank you
I have those same day lillys that you are sitting next too in your intro. Do you know the name of those? I've researched but have been unsuccessful finding the exact type. I love them because they bloom for so long.
I've so enjoyed your videos, and I'm sad to see you sign off! (However, of course, you're entitled to choose when it's time to open a new chapter and close this one.)
Like you, pruning is one of my favorite aspects of gardening. I'll certainly be following you on instagram, and as a hopeful request, I'd love to see some before/later pairings of some of the items you did rejuvenation pruning on as the years progress! I have some (very old) camellias and rhododendrons that had been sheared terribly by a previous homeowner and I have been gradually pruning them into tree forms over the years too allow for a woodland planting understory. I'm kicking myself now that I didn't document the "before" but I know from your videos that you have good comparison photos to reference! I also did a major rejuvenation attack on my forsythia with some extra courage from your helpful videos. Thank you so much!
I'm glad you found the videos helpful. And yes it is so important to document and photograph your garden
They are a real reference for the future and they are great to look back on.
Aw Una I can’t believe this is your last video. Thank you for taking us on your journey and for all the knowledge and tips you have passed on, I will follow on Instagram and hopefully continue to learn more from you. Love and best wishes Sandra 💙
Thank you very much Sandra for following and for your comments and best wishes!
Hi hope you doing well. I wanted an update video on the avacado plant you uploaded 6 months ago
Why did you block comments on your other videos? I find them so useful because of possibly better ideas, different ways of doing things,
sometimes not.
Could you tell us which part of Spain the garden is located? Maybe elevation and growing zone?
In the mountain range north of Madrid. Elevation 3.000 feet. Climate continental mountain. Very hot summers and cold winters
@@GrannysGarden Thanks. I garden close to Alicante, so some of your experience will help me, and otherwise I need to adjust for differences.
How are you?
Did you plant something where the Russian Olive tree was taken down?
Well I will be sorry to see you go , good luck in what ever new venture you take on . Here's too May sun always shine on you , may the wind be at your back , May you live as long as you want to and want to as long as you live , may you be half a hour in heaven before the devil knows your dead , Slainte
Music to Irish ears. Thank you!
Noooo, don’t go 😭😭😭
I JUST found you and now it's over? 😢 just my luck.