This garden bed wasn’t in our plans. It didn’t even make the list of “things we may want to do this year.” But as we started to progress with our garden beds and paths in the front yard near the Common House, we stepped back and thought we just may be able to make this ginormous garden bed happen.
The first plants were in the ground in September 25th, 2022 and by early November, we put in the final plant, (which you’ll see in this video). Admittedly we prolonged the gardening process a bit because we wanted to find time to film it all, but this may be one of the biggest (and quickest) garden beds we’ve put in to date. This garden will primarily be considered a shrub garden, featuring many different types of shrubs, shrubby groundcovers, and herbaceous perennials, which have a propensity for spreading into groundcovers.
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26 Comments
the garden layout design is so impressive on its own I find it interesting to follow along and see how you come up with the shapes or arrange them together in a landscape. Also your plant matching is special! Advice like "copying the leaf shape" in this episode makes so much sense. Thank you for sharing your knowledge 🍀
Love it. Looks like a Coke logo from above. ¥£€$
Love your videos! Learning so much! Thank you👍
Pretty much impressive to me how much ressources you spend on ornamental stuff. Big respect. Of course I realize that this is not just ornamental. However the challenge will be maintaining it.
beautiful work
Very inspirational ❤
Your entire area is coming together so incredibly well, it's a true joy to see. LOVE the shape of this impromptu shrubby bed, it looks especially nice next to the pollinator bed next to it from above, with both their little paths through them.
i use logs, for edging. i cut the ones that are 4-6" in diameter in 2' pieces and then use them for edging. tucked in the cardboard under them, mulch on top. I use either gravel on weed barrier cloth or just larger pieces of sandstone as pathway.. The logs, if available in abundance can be path/paving material as well. its bit bump.. but it works. and great use of organic material
I am also growing a native moon garden with a lot of these plants. just got a white flowering weeping eastern redbud, so excited.
Really loving how the shapes of all of the gardens and lawn areas are coming together. It's all complimenting the house and creating a wonderful space
shrubs seem like a great idea because they take up so much space and compete less with weeds. Ya'll aint gonna have any grass left when it's all said and done! lol
Bobo
34:50 what a great look from the drone! Awesome work! Looking great👍🏾
Looks really well thought out. I've found my little stirrup hoe valuable in quickly working recently mulched areas that have some grasses or weeds popping up – just leaves the area fluffy and clean, slowly working the stored energy out of any roots underneath. Also, wetting down the cardboard really allows you to mold it to the contours you're working with. Keep up the great work!
love your yin yang garden
kinda perfect imo that it's sorta in a yin-yang shape, and will develop into a different look from the adjacent pollinator garden, thematic. assuming the freezing temps have settled in there as they have in southern new england, because if i wanted to plant now i'd need a pickaxe. hilariously, i ordered some bare root trees, they have yet to arrive. i literally do not know how i will get those into the ground lol
You say the copper beech won't get much bigger. I'm looking out over a row of copper beeches now and they are pretty tall. And the biggest tree (in girth) around here is a magnificent copper beech in a cemetery. Do you have a cultivar that stays small, or do you plan on doing a lot of pruning? They don't grow extremely fast, and will be very pretty when they do get big, so I'd keep the tree anyway :). Oh, and the birds like the nuts!
Love the shape of the bed – the aerial shots give u the best layout ! Well done …
Very nice. Zin/zang like!
Do you need a beekeeper to complete the whole thing? 😀
I am always looking for plant suggestions so watching your videos is fun and informative for me.
💚💚💚I love it! Your last minute garden will give you years of enjoyment. What a beautiful selection of plants…so fun to watch the development. I spray for deer browsing using commercial sprays and concoct my own because they will get used to any scent. When I joined our local garden club one of the members told me he used rotten egg and garlic…so of course I had to try that. When I use garlic I save the tips in a small glass of water and keep it covered for months and it gets super stinky. I let an egg go bad (don’t forget to put a hole in the shell) strain the egg and garlic into your sprayer with water. I just sprayed the last of my commercial spray and added a little wilt-pruf; I think it helps it last a little longer. Love your new garden bed. Thanks for sharing.
Did the Knights put you up to this? Have you tried saying it to them?
This was a great project. So glad you did this. I think it will be an important addition to your gardens.
We put in a metal rim around our big circle bed, then dug in bricks outside that. Grass will always find a way, but it does help, and looks good. I also heard of people using upside down wine bottles, I always wanted to try it, it's recycling 🙂 plus it's definitely cheaper, unless you can find some discarded bricks somewhere.
Your gardens are absolutely incredible, that the pollinator garden came together in such jewel-like intricacy in just a year is staggering!
Do you think it would be possible to put a video together outlining your planning process for a bed? Like, do you decide on a theme and then work your way through the layers listing species you'd like, or is it more buying species you like and then planning the bed around that?
I'd be really interested in the thought process of the design, if you map and sketch things out. It would be especially interesting to see the planning, buying and implementation of one bed all together.
Thank you for always bringing joy into the world with your videos!