Step-by-step guide for a garden makeover of a small planter area, starting with the landscaping with an eye to repurpose and recycle for sustainability, getting the potting media/soil mix right, designing the space with balance, concepts of plant layering and focal point plants.
Cool gardening books I’m reading now on organic DIY ways to get rid of pest & have healthy plants:
https://amzn.to/3CFYXNt
https://amzn.to/3Aw7K2B
https://amzn.to/37rR0ge
Let’s connect in Instagram: @leafing.around
To support my channel, you can also buy me coffee or put another plant in my garden!
https://www.buymeacoffee.com/leafingaround
Those in the US, check out this plant store! Use coupon code “LEAFING” to get 10% off:
https://comfortplants.com/?ref=C4IE3PW-ZmFR1R
37 Comments
Irene, you are the absolute best when it comes to hardscaping and design! I also love the fact that you show us the reality of gardening – the mud, cuts, sweat, indecisions, laziness to fetch gloves and not just a perfect end product. We can all relate.
Sean b
Enjoy your videos but please "God" is not a swear word or to be used so disrespectfully.
How you.learn all these stuffs? Amazing
those are strap-leaf vandas, the ones with flowers, lovely, yes, but quite difficult to maintain, as compared to terete or semi-terete vandas (altho, these need full sun exposure!! Anyway, job well done! Hello from the Philippines!
HI Irene! New subscriber here. really love your videos and how you make planting looks so fun and easy, (well, the hard work of designing the garden and everything seems to be fun, too). Looking forward to more of your videos and excited to watch the previous videos as well. Oh my! you really inspire me. You're my newest plant idol, whatever that means haha. Love the channel, love the videos, love the garden and everything in it! ๐ชด๐ชด๐ชด๐ชด
i enjoyed watching your videos
when handling those concrete blocks you really should wear steel toe capped boots for safety ok. you have a wonderful garden. well done from a uk fan
Thanks for sharing your lovely ideas I will do the same in my garden greetings from srilanka
Congratulation you have well
Wow beautiful plants
Irene, for goodness sake, please use gardening glove, so that you don"t dirty or injured your delicate hand. I always wear glove when gardening .
Like the concept. Nice garden.
You and your channel are so cute, I love listening and learning from you, you keep it real and show us all aspects of gardening reducing any anxiety of getting a "perfect" garden and showing it's a progress. ๐๐
Very funny, irene. Good job, inspiring.
Oh I Love that vertical garden…ur so amazing Irene…
Wow, I feel so lucky to discover your channel! I feel like you would be a great friend to have๐
Amazing work! Thanks for sharing your videos, so inpirational!
Hello Irene..i loved your hardwork..i can relate so much with you..you've got a nice garden..your effort paid much..i can feel your happines..such a goodvibes..thank you for sharing..๐บ๐ค
Sub indonesia please ๐๐๐โค๏ธโค๏ธ๐๐
What I liked about your approach with plants is that you always consider how they would look good in the garden. I hope you do more garden make over. โบ๏ธ
My favourite plant Videooooooo thus far. This is a lot of hard work and finesse! Thanks for taking us through this journey and allowing us to feel your satisfaction!
Next time don 't try to push, instead pivot. there would be less resistance of the gravel if you incrementally did a circle until you got it to where you'd like it, closer & infront of that white wall section.
The next time instead of pushing, which caused you resistance from the gravel, pivot heavy things towards yourself so that in tiny increments you can move it in a circle while you also pull on it a bit. U may find that easier. Or use a fulcrum. Put something like a good sized rock a foot from the container, slide a thin strong pc of metal bar like a cat's paw or strip of plywood under the edge of container. Then step down on the bar & your container will move forward a bit. Repeat. You would be surprised what you can move if the rock or stack of bricks etc are large enough to create that fulcrum effect, like a wheelbarrel as a common one we all use.
Very beautiful and exotic Irene! ๐๐๐๐๐
Looks so real , like a jungle , perfect . Congratulation .
Irene .You are a very talented lady.
Excellent job you are doing.
Do visit to Goa. INDIA. VELSAO.
So inspiring
Loved the process of your makeover. made me laugh with some of the things that happen while you garden. cuts, get dirty etc…. start with flip flops and realize should have worm my clogs. So enjoyed your video and your new area looks lovely. Vanda orchids are wonderful becasue they keep their bloom for a long time. in the US I buy them and put them
in my shower area and it does well under my skylight. I just splash some water on it. . the roots turn green when watered.
just water a lot
Water your vanda a lot
๐๐๐ great and beautiful job.
Blessings from Kuching, Malaysia.
Beautiful transformationโค๏ธโค๏ธโค๏ธ
You know you can find a very good pair de gloves a good price in Home Depot, Target or Walmart. Also a very nice pair of gardenโs boots. Will be easy for your hands and feet.
you disappearing from one end and re-emerging from ground cracked me up !!! ๐๐
do you have problem with snakes? btw love your garden, the foliage are so stunning and inspiring
While it stresses me that the vertical frame is crooked, I can't help but love it because of your relaxed nature Irene. You are so enjoyable to watch, I see myself doing these same things and can only imagine what a fun and beautiful friend you would be to have! Thanks for another wonderful video!