Tour two beautiful gardens with me to pick up tips you can use in your own garden. From dry-garden planting to what to do with overgrown trees, and more.
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36 Comments
Love these tours. More please. Good for a good dose of spring as I am looking out on to snow now. Which is very pretty but. Cannot wait for spring!
Great video – those gardens have such a familiar and distinctive look and feel for us Australians! I think it’s the trees in the background, the eucalypts etc. and the magpies! Beautiful white greenhouse too.
lovely video
I love everything you gave info wise in this video! Great examples!
Celsius and
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at -40, not -20.
Such soothing, restful gardens. Thanks for sharing.
it's always interesting to see gardens from elsewhere in the world.
I could not agree more! Growing trees in a drift adds such drama to the space, particularly trees with striking bark and/or great looking colored foliage. In our experience, this is especially effective with conifers, such as Oriental spruces, due to their 4 season nature.
Loved these gardens so much. Thanks for sharing your tours with us. I
Lovely gardens. I’d love a little greenhouse like that.
Loved this very much! My highlight was the saving of the mature trees. I work in a garden centre & it always amazes me the growth expectations customers have & their disappointment it won’t be a fully grown tree for several years. So when I see the beautiful large trees massacred I wonder if they realise they will probably never get that maturity again in their lifetime 😥
Hello, Alexandra! Greetings from Barbados! 🇧🇧
I love the greenhouse! How smart. Will definitely check out the private garden playlist. I would truly be grateful for windy, flat and tropical garden tours in 2020, and advice on how to DIY temporary wind breaks for young saplings and new plantings.
A lovely garden. I really like the idea of themed sculpture.
Lovely gardens. Nandy (sp?) especially reminds me of American country gardens. Ingenuity and resourcefulness on display! And I really enjoyed seeing your wide lovely smile as you stood at that garden gate! I would be smiling too if I was on holiday in Australia. 😊 Cheers!
Yes!!!!
Really enjoyed that Alessandra, looking around other peoples garden is so interesting, and touching on the Mediterranean style was really helpful. Thanks
I love tours of other's gardens. I get ideas, plus it's just nice to enjoy walking through a beautiful garden while sitting on my couch on a cold day in NY USA.
Love the tour of the beautiful private gardens thank you for sharing.
Yes here zone 6 Canada had hens and chickens survive and expand in my backyard!
This is fabulous! You are so right about the curves, i use them whenever i can but the gardens are getting too small for the generous beautiful curve. Thank you for this feast of beautiful spaces 🙂
Always enjoy a garden tour.! Love that greenhouse idea too, will tuck that away. I thought I was seeing things, like a koala bear @8.28, it's just the tree trunk with debris around the ground, made me take a second look tho =^)
Hello! 🙂 Thank you for this video! There are such great ideas and you worked it out really well. Love to see more from you and your work. Thank you for your effort! Best regards from Vienna/Austria
Thoroughly enjoyed this video.
With respect to wildlife in these gardens, do the owners have problems with anything nasty? I spent some time wandering in the bush and met emus and kangaroos, but do gardeners get snakes or the nasty arachnids setting up home?
10:35 into your video what is the name of the ivy growing up your right post
Love succulents di much my plants inpots buddy house if soon pots.my room crochet hen & chicks to come felted plants if not painted flower pressed & birds sculptures 1st be told l thought the Ginny Hens l viewed real untill you told viewers
Love the sculpture tree trunks l use too do in family garden beautiful like the Rose's gated veggie garden love rose lots more private gardens now l no way to on garden tours like l use to in person. What a wha to jump start soring last week 1st Snowdrops now this .l in my minds eye create the garden into textile arts or draw paint collage if not 1st photo
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Very enjoyable tour of these lovely Aussie gardens – thank you 😊 from a fellow Aussie 👍
Wonderful. And, yes, the ideas are transferable. Thank you so much.
Had to laugh, after watching the UK news re current floods, that you said UK is getting drier! lol! Of course I realise where you are in Kent is a different story. I imagine 'Longmeadow' is like a lake at the moment. Back to your video it is nice to see the trees being saved…lovely! Lovely garden too.
Thank you for sharing these two gardens with us. I liked the idea of staying within a theme for garden art. Also you looked great in that green sweater. That is a good color for you. Thanks again. I love your garden tips. I am in my 60's but always can learn something new.
Beautiful!!
So beautiful gardens. I'm always delighted with your videos! TFS! ♥️🙏
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Thank you for showing the garden that was built around existing trees and shrubs. That is what I have been doing on my 3/4 acre property here in Texas. I live at the edge of a thicket forest. I have trimmed all my mature trees (which are between 60' and 100' tall) up to a high canopy. I have removed a few small trees that were growing in bad spots anyway (unable to reach their full height due to other trees.) Birds here, plant Yaupon Hollies at the bases of many of the trees, so I trim them into shapes and balls. They work very well for topiaries. My garden is massively full of wildlife, is a little on the wild side in design, and I work a lot with native wild flowers, along with introduced plants. I am also growing a Food Forest in an area about 80' x 80', the sunniest area I have, on the east side. I lose the full sun there, around 2pm. Then it's just dabbled sunlight. The topiaries dotted here and there, are the only formal thing about my garden.
Buongiorno dall’Italia, Alex
Your channel somehow reminds me of very much loved and missed Geoff Hamilton.
Your quietly warm enthusiasm and zest for down to earth imaginative ideas always give encouragement, together with a big smile.
Thank you again, very much 🥰
It's great that they didn't cut down the old trees. They look like sculptures the way they trimmed them. Very beautiful indeed.