Let’s Tour One Of My Favorite Idea-Packed Small Gardens

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all right in three two well I am so excited to bring you this garden tour today one of the most if not the most exceptional small gardens you will ever see and it speaks to me because I am here with my friend Samy one of the cutest people on the planet who shares my obsession my Fascination my absolute Adoration of all things boxwood and and tailored small space Gardens and boy this is spectacular thank you thanks we love it we just it’s our a little Haven and who else do we love because they did your garden uh John flu yes John fluid at garden design and Roger our buddy Roger they have worked with you for years absolutely and here’s a little trivia piece of trivia um Sammy went to high school with Stuart’s mom in Midwest City and no bers yeah and this and this all came out while we were visi one day over coffee in this absolutely Divine space in her backyard imminently Charming imminently livable imminently beautiful and ever expressive of the personalities of both you and your husband Van who is also oh he loves it he’s the one that manicures and he loves this he’s very earthy so I I I give it all to you John everyone who’s helped and ban well it’s it’s absolutely incredible but definitely your um your taste and sensibilities permeate every square inch of both this outdoor space and also her indoor space which when you get back from your travels and I get back from my travels we are going to film for you you will absolutely love it thank you my forte I like that too yes thank you my dear um we’re going to let you go back inside you’ve got some things going and I guess I’ll just take it from here thank you uh steuart let’s do it well I love visiting Gardens like this because they give me so many ideas for my own garden now this one is actually a smaller template than even mine but it is very very tailored it’s very manicured and it very much mimics the kind of style that I like as I mentioned earlier with lots of clipped boxwood and punctuations of container gardens with color so steuart if you would let’s I’m going to let you kind of come off of the porch area and look at this spectacular side garden now this is a brilliant solution if you have a narrow side garden and you are looking for ways to make it compelling to plant some things but also in no way detracting from its practicality and its accessibility so you can see that this is probably I am gonna say what four and a half feet Stuart this area here maybe four and a half feet and then there are these um oh what what are these called railroad ties here and then it goes up on another level where there is more Greenery more foundational plantings and this gives it Dimension it gives it a beautiful layering feel but again it’s very very practical to move from the front side garden and you can see even up here how accessible her trash can are and things to the front and then when you come back here it becomes a garden I love the fact that she has done this this it’s just so attractive this combo of Flagstone with gravel you guys know I’m a huge fan of it it’s really really a wonderful thing to uh technique to utilize here in Oklahoma because of our difficulties in erratic temperature swings and things like that um but I also love the fact that it gives texture it gives movement and it gives Dimension to small spaces like this so on the upper level we have some IL Agnus we’ve got some tree panies some perfectly trimmed boxwood gloves it looks really incredible another tree peny and then at the end a miniature little Cedar Elm some kind of elm but it’s absolutely a adorable and I think that I need one of those and then she’s also got some some I would say restrained but very effective in their Simplicity garden ornaments here a beautiful trough filled with what is still happy yellow Irish moss and golden Irish moss maybe it’s Scotch moss and also uh little piece of of iron sculpture that kind of picks up on This brilliant idea here there are two statement pieces of arched rebar right here that frames what is encapsulated within the frame and you can see it as a perfect focal point framing the view outside this window something very simple but very very striking the radius is identical on both pieces of rebar and on the rebar she is growing a variegated porcelain Berry Vine and it’s really really spectacular the the the berries on it have not transformed yet into their very distinctive blue color porcelain blue color absolutely beautiful it can be in some ways it can get a little bit out of hand but in this confined area it’s the perfect perfect application for it and she keeps it beautifully tamed or van does and beautifully trimmed up from the base exposing the architecture of the vine itself yeah it’s really magnificent and imagine what this space would look like without this rebar and what it looks like with the rebar so talk about something relatively inexpensive and brilliant component that you could add to your own garden and it looks magnificent not only when you are headon looking at it from this perspective but also if you are looking down the Long View yeah the Long View from either end from this end y to the other end from south to North so a small garden need not lack a certain spectacular quality she even has not only some robust hosta in here but look there’s a little tiny bird bath yeah y the water it doesn’t look and and a little stool it doesn’t look cluttered it looks very clean it looks very neat but it is just packed fully with tons of Personality now let’s just kind of move on and go to another Garden Room well let me let me give give you some perspective and some orientation from inside out so this goes into their kitchen this wonderful little patio off of their kitchen is simply Divine it is enclosed there’s a wonderful roof over it all of the trim is painted to match the trim of the rest of the house and this can also be completely enclosed because they have operational blind lines that come down on each side so this could be completely closed off closed off if indeed they want to make this another room that’s kind of a fusion of being indoors and Outdoors nice place to sit and have your coffee in the morning she’s got a sideboard here with some of her favorite magazines um an ice bucket it’s just a wonderful little composition still life I’m going to imagine that she often sets up her bar outside when she is is entertaining in this way I like these modern This Modern bar set’s kind of cool yeah the modern bar set is really cool I and she like me she loves retan so so matches yeah and it and it matches match oh yeah oh the matches too yeah yeah yeah um and then if you go this way then you just it just intersects with the path that goes around to the front so so much uh so so many great outdoor living ideas in a very very small space that nevertheless has multiple garden rooms so this then opens up onto a path that enters This Magnificent pergola now Stuart let’s insert some footage right here I’m just going to I’m just going to stop talking for a minute and let’s rewind let’s go back in time and put segment of the of our previous visit here with the former pergola and you can kind of see what this area looked like how many years ago is that three or four years ago between two three fours in that range and when you see the footage you’ll think oh that looks so perfect why would they ever change it well they changed it because it had been there for a long time and over time structures like the pre pergola that was here it began to rot it began to have some structural Integrity issues and they needed to replace it with this magnificent structure that is a combination of Steel and wood you’ll notice that they did reuse some magnificent fixtures that were in place before cool and and um just other things that you may recognize but let’s stop right here let’s put in some sections of that previous Garden Tour and then we’ll be back after we kind of go back in [Music] time it’s not necessarily low maintenance but by the same token you don’t have have any lawn to mow no you don’t Reese over seaing you don’t have any of that not at all we did uh when we first moved here of course and the trees were all not mature we had grass all in the whole backyard the entire backyard was grass and then as the trees grew as they do do uh then we took it all out and said okay we’re going to put it and I love flagstone I love flag yes and theel any of that I’ve always been a fan of that always loved it and so uh we took it all out by-by grass and low maintenance other than all the trimming we have to keep this night nice and pristine and trimmed because it’s such a small garden uhhuh and uh well it being a small garden makes it manageable does it helps you actually relate to the Garden in a very personal way and I find it therapeutic and really cathartic especially now to be able to come outside and do some of your own work so I want to make sure that steuart steuart this needs to be our thumbnail for this video because this Vista and these Garden rooms sometimes I think small gardens lend themselves to making small garden rooms more even than large Gardens I think so too Ian so it it is just it’s just wonderful but I’m getting ahead of myself because I want to point out another brilliantly sculpted tree this Crimson Queen Japanese Maple and you sell them or at least I seld them see them this large is that right yes normally the ones I see are a little bit smaller so look at the way this is contorted and has a very asan quality my favorite it’s my as John and I were saying and and Van my husband we were saying that’s that’s Samy’s tree don’t touch it but we’ve had to have it trimmed on this side because the you know it was it’s all Fanning out toward you know the sunlight that way but I I as you said I love the contouring part of it and I just it’s just so interesting to me and uh but it is I didn’t think it was going to get that big actually but I don’t think it’ll it’ll get much bigger but it’s got this umbrella shape to it and I bet in when morning light comes through these leaves and the Shadows it creates must just be magical it is beautiful and then I like to go around and walk around it too because in the fall you know it would turn colors and that portion out in the coming from that direction it’s just beautiful the colors are so pretty and magnificent and look at this is that not just adorable I don’t think they’ve found that yet just adorable and look at these look at just your really unique garden art that’s just magnificent is there a story behind these there is a story behind that and that is U I think we all know Janice Joplin we remember Janice Joplin all right this is her sister and her husband that live here in Oklahoma City and her husband made those oh and they they at our sweet little uh garden shop that had to close their doors a couple of years ago she retired a Wilshire Garden market and she sold uh these and they were on you know they were hanging she had some that were you know sitout and they were just sitting big sculptures oh wow they were they’re just beautiful but well I yeah I used to do workshops at Carol’s at Wilshire Garden market and I don’t I don’t remember see these or I think I would have had to snag some oh boy but I love the fact that you’ve got them hanging in threes and I love the story that with Janice Jin that’s just that’s just incredible it just makes you makes you happy and I just think all of the different the way he has put all the different notches in there and and it kind of matches you’ve got some little violas some blue violas over there and I just love that that color I like blue and I like purple and and I and it just looks it just looks beautiful there’s so much to see okay Stuart can you what is this this is an antique rain barrel that is just unbelievable in here and and uh I don’t know I think it’s about 100 years old oh my gosh and what is this oh this looks like a whiskey jug that’s they uh have a lot of those I picked that up in Europe and they have a lot of those uh all over all over Europe and and as well as here so maybe a wine it’s a a winey wine jug uhhuh and I love the fact that this matches and that you’ve got them in a protected area off of your porch with a Charming little sitting area here you’ve got some wire Vines some muia in here and this porch so this is stamped concrete concrete mm it is and uh it was much more brilliant of course but as it’s faded out I kept thinking you know maybe I should stamp it again and have it more brilliant but I kind of like I like it oh yes I love it weather like the weathered look and you’re framed as we go back into the garden you’re framed by pots filled with succulents and Ivy and I I love it tell me about these over here uh those aren’t true antiques actually they’re they’re new and if I may they’re from Ethan Allen really in in my house at one point in my husband’s office and then I started you know just thinking about how great they’d look out here just a little added you know Rustic Touch touch uhhuh so we put those was their original intention just ornament not sure just I I think so I don’t know if it if they were door knockers or I’m not sure if they were supposed to be they’re new they’re not true antiques but I don’t know if they were really like some type of a pulley you know back in well they have a they also have kind of a western vibe to them a wagon wheel Vibe I think so too so then okay the the pergola is just incredible so I was telling you that um after you were on the Horticultural tour that I put some video and also some Stills up of this pergola which is one of the most liked Stills I’ve put on Instagram ever I love these flame filled lanterns that’s pretty I like those they’re just love them spectacular they just make you happy and we keep them on all the time actually and uh just enjoy them so much and then about a million people are going to ask us what Vine is this growing up around the pergola well that is a Woolly morning glory and they are incredible um they just grow you can almost see them grow an inchy each night they’re just so fast growing but they love the Heat and once uh uh you know we we’ll plant them and you can see all the little areas we had those cut out the circles there patio and uh so we plant planted it I bet they’re not any taller than a foot and that’s they’re planted in May and then act actually in June when the weather starts to get warmer they love the Heat and so they really start taking off so they’re an annual an you plant them every year yes they’re an annual and darn it cuz we’re going to lose them here pretty soon pretty soon but pretty soon but uh the the leaves are beautiful and I what I love also about them is uh I love the the branches the it’s almost like velvet and they wrap themselves around see how it’s twisted around the contortion of it yes and I love I just love how they just and you know we just keep tacking them we use little uh nails and we just keep training it to go up up up up and and look at it’s it’s the perfect color it’s a perfect color match well I had noticed that that’s you would notice to your isn’t it just marvelous do they bloom do they bloom they uh usually bloom this year but it’s usually at the very end of this season now I I don’t see any Bloons on them and we’ll get a bloom like maybe two weeks and it’s usually right up at the top and what color is it it’s kind of a kind of a purple it’s a very faint um kind of a violet color well this is so spectacular I I would not mind if it never blend because it’s really just spectacular I think it’s just all about the leaves and the and then you can just see she was talking about creating planting Pockets at the base of the posts and just one one plant it looks like mhm one actually no I think we did two we there two per C well it just frames it gloriously for a morning glory for a woolly morning glory and then you’ve got additional string lighting in here what a wonderful place to sit and dine have breakfast and you’re on a golf course we are on a golf course and we just we get to enjoy all those beautiful trees out there as well and space you know we have a nice lot because we can enjoy those huge trees out there you know far enough away where we uh don’t feel like we’re you know claustrophobic by any means and uh we can just enjoy the and you feel a little like you’re in the country and the you can see the coloring the as the fall leaves start to turn and happily you’ve got a red oak right here that uh looks like two of them may be is that an it’s hard for me to tell this one right here is an October October Glory yes okay that’s an October glory and then of course that beautiful Magnolia look at the size of that oh my gosh is that beautiful and I thought it was going to be uh a small uh type but it it’s not but it’s yeah well it it is just brilliant and a nice Evergreen structure to have there in the corner and you feel very framed in and then we’ve got just your classic just a cedar tree down there to give you some added privacy privacy and for I bet the birds love it oh yes they do they love it and then of course the squirrels they like everything they yeah sadly they do like it yes they like it all they like everything and your kind of flanked in boxwood in both pots and in the beds with more of the Mondo Grass you’ve got um a separate ancillary seating area over here you feel again not at all um uh confined or claustrophobic because you can see through the rod iron fence you can see through all of the trees because of the way you’ve got them sculpted you can even see through the pergola well uh we were going to put a a a roof on it and I’m so glad we didn’t because it would have darkened the whole area and it would have darkened inside of the house so I I’m glad that we did keep that open and and and it would have also really affected what you could grow underneath it because I’m sure this morning glory well I had to tell you a little story too when we first moved in and this was actually 20 years ago and it really was country I mean we it was the end of the road was just it was a dirt road and now you can see on coille it’s just huge but uh so uh there was nothing out here at all we had one little tree and so we called Garden Design Associates John flu and he said okay we’ll drw some we drew up three plans and we picked from one particular plan and decided on that and so we had decided okay we’ll just do this in stages and so I went to work van went to work it was a week day and he said we’re the crew’s coming out and uh so we’ll probably be home you know gone by 5: when you get home and I came home got home about 5:30 and I I couldn’t wait to get to see what they had done and he put the whole yard in all at once oh my gosh and I just started crying C iMed I was like no there’s just there’s no way this is and then of course I called John and he just started laughing and I said you are such a little he is a little elf John we adore John don’t we he something else and so talented and and then and then but now it’s changed a lot from the initial uh not a lot but uh anyway we just started enjoying the backyard right off right well NSF Garden should it should evolve over time and Stuart you can can kind of show the pathway that goes back and runs parallel to the golf course with a lovely sidewalk and a walking path and a different perspective every uh yeah it it really is and we’ll meet Stuart back over here in this secondary Garden Room Again flanked by boxwood and I love I love the way this is pruned how it’s it’s I don’t really know how it’s slanted at the top and narrower at the top um and the way he taught us on that is because the reason being that it will help fill out the the bottom to get light at the bottom portions that’s just wonderful we’ve got some spotted leopard plant here A A Charming water feature surrounded by flagstone more of your cherished hydrangeas back here and some helor some violas so you have a lot of room for both seasonal color but very much that signature trade mark that I adore of lots of just green on green with little flashes of color versus just expand large expanses of annuals this is so soothing I was telling Stuart when we first moved here also uh you could probably under this was a hun tub at one point and so we used it a lot and our our grandchildren were all teeny tiny and they thought it was a swimming pool of course so we enjoyed it for probably 10 years and then it kept breaking and the kids got older we didn’t use it so this is this is what we did a wonderful example of how a a garden can evolve and change with its owners it does over time and how you can rethink a water feature right right and recommunity it the breeze through here is lovely you can hear her collection of Windchimes she’s even got enough space for a perennial bed in here we’ve got some angelonia some comf flour a huge pot of plumbago some trenden scona some more Mond grass some Sedum Autumn Joy uh what am I missing in here it’s just and all in that kind of signature kind of bluish gray foliage that so matches your house I just love it well thank you it’s just it’s a Happy Garden right now it’s very happy it’s very happy we’re catching it right at the right time too because I guess we’re going to change here in about another week yes in another week so whenever you’re you guys are watching this um it is October 21st today 21 so we have yet to have a hard freeze so a lot of this stuff is still very happy but it it could not be more beautiful out here I just noticed another fabulous color Echo all of your grayish blues and then how they mimic the color on the juniper berries oh yes uhhuh I see that I hadn’t thought of that before now but yes I love the way it communicates other really massive uh Boulders with wonderful lyans um more Indian Hawthorne lots of ferns and things that wave and create movement um and another beautiful Japanese maple over here with some smaller orbs orbs M and then and I just let those as you can tell I don’t paint them or anything I just let those go natural that makes we pay extra for that for for age stuff and then another seating area over here if you get a little bit chilly in the shade you can come over here where it’s a little sunnier and private little Nook more succulents potted Evergreens is this a hicka u do you know uhhuh that’s a u uhhuh I am so going to have to copy this Stuart remind me here’s I’ve taken away many things from this Garden before but here’s another one I want a large hix you beautifully pruned in a conical shape and then against the shiny glossy foliage and I love the trains in the background go yes are here they are here and This Magnificent Magnolia over here and I and you’re not sure the cultivar on this I am not sure but it is just wonderful it’s very columnar uh and a and wonderful visual weight on the corner of the property I think we’re all kind of different in that uh in one aspect with having to do with trees and u I I’m always having them come out and and trim our trees and I’m one that I don’t particularly like my trees touching I like it a little bit open and I probably because the yard is small right and I like the light to come in but I think it’s interesting how you talk to different people and some they like that overgrowth with you know kind of more like an umbrella uh effect and then some just like the distinction well it gets it gets more light down in here um I if they were both the same kind of tree you might want them to but since they’re two different specimens maybe not so I just I cannot thank you enough for showing us your magical spot it it was my pleasure I just love you and I appreciate you so much and all your input been to it’s just wonderful it’s Wonder of my favorite Gardens in Oklahoma City actually I should say we’re not even in Oklahoma City we’re in Edmund which is a suburb of Oklahoma City it’s where I a period of my growing up years I grew up in Edmond and it’s just nice to it’s nice to visit and catch up with old friends thank you Sam thank so much Linda it’s my pleasure now we get to go have tea yes yes well it was Magnificent before no question it is even more magnificent now I think this structure is a little bit more elegant it is certainly more durable but it looks very very consonant and harmonious and consistent with the house and these outdoor spaces so steuart if you would come and stand where I’m standing so again we give you an orientation to how each space leads into each other space space so if you turn around then over here you have the small patio area that I was talking about if I go to the right there is a path a flagstone path that is bordered in Mondo Grass that goes around this way and into the fountain room you can see some hydrangeas there a gko some burn some oh just all sorts of things and then before we go to the Fountain area Stuart let’s show everyone yeah let’s show everyone how this then comes off from this side via the same kind of Flagstone patio it is directly across from the other path that goes up the side garden and in this corner there are some wonderful plantings of Oakleaf hydr grander some cut Leaf spia more clipped boxwood in conical shapes we’re under a brilliant brilliant yopon Holly and there’s a maple tree over here that’s kept beautifully beautifully trimmed I believe that’s a maple with just some some miniature Nandina along the rod iron fence so it all so smoothly in a stream like way one space connects to the other and then at the entry point into the pergola we’ve got a fabulous Oleander in a pot with a fabulous clay clo and then again a different scale but some rock at the base head so and and just ahead yeah and just ahead that’s a John FL yeah that’s just a John that’s a John fluid thing now a as a point of inspiration when they were doing some subtle changes to this back Garden she was very inspired by clae Doby’s container garden book and she really wanted to incorporate more containers with color and they did that brilliantly I can see back in here some Lenton Rose and some different things but back to the pergola area a really spacious dining area where they can entertain I myself has sat have sat underneath this This brilliant overhang and enjoyed Coffee and Wine it’s really wonderful and then I believe this is new so they did it is new okay so they added a tiny little kitchen area that has both a grill and it looks like uh a warming oven and an area and a surface upon which to prepare foods and Stu and such and oh Stewart I recognize some of these wonderful candles I know she got these in Santa Fe because I have gotten some myself Santa Rosa candles was just looking at these in Santa Fe I have a massive one and and so this area is very compact it’s very very I I can’t use the word functional enough and it connects just effortlessly and beautifully to the dining area that has a fabulous macril hydrangea that beautifully Echoes the color of the cushions and those are larger Fage on that yes these These are larger and and these look like they might be a of a florist hydrangea those are just so macro macro macril and then this comes over here with a slight grade change on a large piece of Flagstone again embedded in more Mondo Grass and it comes down here to the Fountain area that is I guess punctuated on each corner with what looks to be some carracks some everill I believe it’s everill um uh this this really kind of grassy component here car Salada or sge and it looks it just looks beautiful I think again with the same gravel in different scale different size that communicates with all of the other gravel in the area and then this is the path from the other angle what’s this guy this is uh trais scona and what’s it spider wart that’s its common name spider wart I’ve got I used to have some that was in a chartreuse color it can really get overly aggressive but right here it’s a perfect application of its use in this area and it’s doing beautifully here and she’s got a hydrangea she’s got um another I bet this is a hydrangea too I bet this might be this uh uh yes I’m going to guess this is wait a second can you make a hydr just like you can a snowball into a tree yes you can topiary you can topiary a hydrangea and I’m going to guess this might be a really large limelight hydrangea uh though it might be another variety B my mind but it’s but it’s absolutely beautiful it’s spectacular now you know I want to see that right and now you want to see that let’s see if it’s got any little buds I don’t see buds yet and I’ll have to confirm that that’s what it is with Sammy but it’s beautiful she’s got a whole skirt of this sweet alysum that is really dear and flouncy at the base of this boxwood this is a Green Mountain boxwood and this area here has been trimmed not unlike the pige the way I used to keep the pige trimmed at my former home and this is winter green boxwood you talk about Romancing the ordinary all of these plants are rather a lot of these plants are rather ordinary but they are used in such inventive ways that it makes it just makes for a spectacular a spectacular still life and a spec spectacular Tableau this is just Manhattan uus that’s been trained back to a profile it’s on a wood trellis here and yet it can really handle the strong strong sunlight here it’s completely devoid of any sign of scale or powdery mildew it’s been brilliantly taken care of I bet van takes care of that and then we’ve got more Fern in here I see some evidence of maybe some R Russian sage and then that path comes out into this area here which is what she calls her container garden and again this was inspired by clouse Doby’s book container garden I’ll put a link to it below Stuart let’s try to put a little picture of it up right here my friend clouse um and these are really really large concrete pots that I believe were sourced by my friends John and Roger and she’s got some of them elevated on concrete plants not only here but in key areas around the garden because if you come out of from underneath the pergola you can see there’s a large pot here and note that most of her containers are very large and they contain not only seasonal color but they contain specimens of Evergreens that are here in the winter as well as the summer to give winter interest a beautiful Crimson Queen Japanese maple she’s got a little herb pot down there I buy some mint and some thyme that’s how you keep it all in one place that’s how you keep it all in one place she’s got th growing in between some of her pavers there’s different kinds of succulents growing around the base of her pots and also some in the ground different textural components she’s got a tight color palette here of pink blue and white a similar color palette to what what I use at the cottage in the front yard but this is a this is a great idea of having succulents planted at the yeah at the base of your plants make sure they’ve got really good drainage here’s some more she’s relying heavily on pentas and gonia plumbago and I imagine she’ll have to probably replace the alysum with something else once it gets a little bit hotter but some of this is protected as are these geraniums under the overhang of a beautiful shade tree and then she this comes over here too yet another Garden Room if you round the bend she’s got one of these fabulous Stuart’s favorite plants here a Chinese snowball viburnum and we were just talking about pruning it up into a small tree that arches over the space instead of a large shrub which I’ll have to show them here which you’ll have to show them here and and a magnificent I don’t know if this is sumon substance but just a magnificent hosta go very happy here she’s got some um some vinka Miner some more of the ground cover and this is a brilliant use of different Ground Covers you guys brilliant use of of the Mondo Grass and then more Garden Furnishings over here that if you wanted to sit in this beautiful area it overlooks a fabulous Green Space and trail that links up to the golf course links up do you get that links up to the golf course yes steuart’s telling me I steuart’s telling me I have to yeah my cic is acting my cic is acting up there’s no good hair day today CU it’s so exceptionally humid over here she did what I did at the cottage and she’s got kind of a wall of Nelly Stevens Holly by a brilliantly pruned magnolia tree oh wow that is huge and she’s got a juniper over here and another Magnolia and then in this corner she’s got some hydrangeas she’s got some more spyra she’s got another Tree py and more boxwood that kind of are up here hugging the Harry lauder’s walking stick oh wow something contort that’s my question of the day I can’t remember the botanical name something something contort but it it looks like Harry it’s called Harry lauder’s walking stick I used to have one of these at the old garden and it’s just it’s it’s just a curiosity a fun curiosity I love how delightfully awkward it is yes yes it just is it’s kind of um well it’s just Whimsical we can’t find the word and then there’s some yeah some Sedum Autumn Joy there and some more uous and I mean everything and and this always weeding but this is this is probably one of the most manicured Gardens I’ve ever been in and I have never been here when it was not like this now she van does a lot of of the gardening here but she also gets help as I do from our mutual friend Victor who helps her prune the boxwood and um and it’s nice to have a Helper because I used to do all the boxwood pruning at the other house myself and now I don’t have as much time so it’s it’s done by hand so it’s very very helpful to have someone in your corner who can do it when you cannot and that’s a wonderful thing how many years did you mow your your yard over there by mow my yard and edged all and pruned all of that boxwood yes for let’s say H 27 years maybe um so the whole thing if you could just maybe even Step Back start and let’s just get a widot of this area so you have a good idea of how everything fits into place and we’ll take a break here and then I want to go around to the front to show you again the context in which her home resides and some brilliant and innovative solutions for spaces that she’s got in her front yard surrounding her drive now the front yard is really small but again ingenious use of a lot of boxwood which is why I think Sammy calls it the boxwood house she said as soon as we leave she’s going to count just how many boxwood she have she has and I thought we need to have a competition between between herself and myself to see just which one of us has the most hers are definitely more mature because she’s been in this house for how long did she say 25 years I think it was 27 years so a pretty long time so her boxwoods are mature but I just love the way they kind of flow together in different geometric shapes I love love this rod iron sign isn’t it spectacular ties in with everything else and then just simple gravel mulch that just flows up here with some statement making Boulders and boulders that surround another yopon Holly and then again Romancing the ordinary of boxwood Roman um uh yopon Holly Nandina domestica that just comes up well I just now noticed a Little Rock uh like it’s a rock area surround right and it gives it gives level different levels and dimensions she’s got some NEPA here and then one of these magnificent large bird baths that we have seen at John’s and the fact and what’s wonderful about it is it’s massive size and it makes it so appropriate in this space with this this little drift of Mondo Grass around it but just imagine how much less oh impactful it would be if it were small if it were just like you know 12 to 15 in in diameter this is absolutely massive and because of that it really makes a statement and then she’s just got more Evergreens up here he probably drank some of those bottles right uh I have no idea actually not the blue bottles no actually no no actually not this is an artisan that they use and and so it was that Artisan who consumed whatever was in those bottles and then it goes all the way up here with concrete balls just Mass the simple Elegance of one type of plant one color of plant in really really large pots some topiary and and just another lovely seating area on this wonderful aged Cobblestone front porch that leads around to the back where they she’s got some Claus growing Guard Dog Guard Dog I want to show them these faces and more faces staring out at you that’s so delightful so nice porch moments I love the way instead of small gravel she’s used large rocks to mulch her massive Planters and then just so people can kind of get an idea steuart let’s just kind of show them the garage so go around this way in a slow pan more boxwood of course growing underneath the profile of these massive massive shutters oh wow yeah and then there is the garage door and then over this way she she really wanted to point out this new addition on the north side of the house with again great execution of Romancing the ordinary common plants lopy boxwood Indian hawthorn Chinese holes Oakleaf hydrangeas but then all of these set off with this wonderful entryway here of stone stone with copper finals Stone and and wood fencing that then gives you entry into what goes into the backyard and so with that Stuart we have come full circle I hope you guys enjoy this wonderful small garden tour today one of my favorites in Oklahoma City it is just I think um it it just does the best of kind of creating an English garden with different rooms each one as interesting as the next in a very small space and let’s end on The Marvelous marvelous bark oh wow how did I not see that until right now of this fabulous tree okay I’m going to ask you over ending how why does it do that uh I because it’s just Mother Nature doing its thing why I don’t know and I’m not even sure I know what kind of tree it is I don’t think it’s a Chinese pistache but whatever it is it’s Magnificent the bark is Magnificent the whole garden is magnificent as is Sammy for letting us come over and take this tour of her garden okay now that I stepped away for a moment it comes to me what it is it’s a lace bark Elm grown because of its just absolutely fabulous peeling and spectacular bark I think I didn’t recognize it because so often they do not get this large in Oklahoma this is one of the large largest I have ever seen and thankfully it has never been brought Low by an ice or a windstorm so absolutely magnificent I’ll be curious to see if I check with the O OSU Extension Center if it’s still a recommended tree for Oklahoma because it truly is magnificent [Music]