Hello Linda! It is the first time I have made a comment on your channel. I want you to know that you inspire me to enjoy my garden. I love the fact that you love to change things up. You have a look or style that is unique to you. Yet you can make it accessible to all of us. Thank you!
Hi Linda! My husband thinks you must be the hardest working lady in. Oklahoma,he also mentioned that you are very pretty. He knows how much I respect and have improved my gardens over the the time I have been watching you. Also do you have help ? I have hired landscaping people for years and they do all the work but with my ideas. My daughter helps a lot and has also learned a lot from you. People have stopped and ask me how I get my lawn and plants so beautiful,I tell them about you. So happy I have found you. I feel you are my video plant friend, thanks for answering all my questions.
Thank you for your very kind comment! Are used to do it all myself, but now I allow myself to get help from others. It depends on how busy I am, and whether or not something is extremely heavy, or extremely high :-)
I think it means more to me than it does to my friends, when someone goes in my refrigerator. The fact that someone feels comfortable in my house, and secure with me, just makes me feel so good! I have a few people who have refrigerator rights and they’re the most special friends to have!!!
@@camilla6110 I spent hours this week going through the plants in our sunroom, tossing those that looked like eventual goners, giving a good pruning to those that were getting leggy, and making room for bringing in tender plants, mostly ferns. Several chances for low temperatures around 30° this week.
Wondelrful walkabout! Just what I needed after a stressful day today! Your garden looks lovely. Just lovely. I have a ton of fall cleanup yet to do and I’m hoping to get my tulipplanters ready for all the bulbs I have in my fridge 😂 I welcome anyone to my fridge and am generous with the refrigerator rights, but pockets will be checked for bulbs before leaving the house! 🌷 Love your outfit - very pretty! Blessings to you Linda!
I learn so much from reading other comments. Love your outfit today & everyday. I have been making leaf & berry bouquets thanks to your inspiration. I used to on a regular basis, but not so much lately. BUT YOU ARE SUCH A POSITIVE INFLUENCE. In Norcal we've been getting rain with breaks for the last 2 weeks. I love it. I go out to do yard things when there are breaks. The colors locally are breathtaking.
Next time I’m in the area. I’m going to ask for plant rights. Forget refrigerator rights. I’ll make sure I have a shovel and some containers in the trunk. You are such a blessed person. Everyone, this is the real Linda, such a kind and giving lady. She truly appreciates each follower. And folks Linda and I don’t share refrigerator rights. We’re both gardeners and I have attended several of her presentations, you can’t help but be inspired by her passion for gardening. I’m kinda eyeing that orange sweater. 😍
My grown daughters have refrigerator rights, but when I’m having a gathering I encourage people to help themselves…I too am from a large family, I must thank you Linda, you and Laura have changed my gardens, for the better! Before I had 4 topiaries, but I have added about 20 boxwood, and more other shrubs, I’m having a ball! HA HA
Well, first, let me say, that I LOVE watching these Wednesday videos! The Boston Ivy is absolutely GORGEOUS and I will definitely be looking at that for my garden! I LOVE the beautiful berries it produces as well. And, oh my goodness, that Chinese Snowball Viburnum is just SPECTACULAR!!! Another favorite, I saw in your pots is Bay leave....I love to use those leaves in the winter, for cooking, as well! What a wonderful watch! I've got A LOT to do next year!!! LOL....Take care, see ya next Wednesday!
That was such a cute question, refrigerator rights! Never thought about it, and there are some I certainly would allow to do that ❤️. Your garden looks so quite and peaceful and I so enjoy all your videos and your narrating them to perfection. Your outfit is gorgeous and you always look stunning! Thanks for your devotion and sharing your knowledge with us. Have a great weekend and looking forward to your next video! P.S. I can’t wait for your book to arrive, I am counting the days! 🌾💐🌹🌷🌼
Haha. I love it: refrigerator rights! Me and my best friends are this way! I laugh too because sometimes when we visit we will nap. I said there’s no better friend than one that will nap with you!
Everything looks absolutely stunning! You have mentioned the Greenhouse in many videos. I would love to see a video incorporating one of your greenhouse trips. My very talented hubs is going to make a small one for our garden (hopefully in the spring) Would love to see how you transition your plants.
I laughed when I heard “refrigerator rights”. Friends and family definitely have rights and even pantry rights. I love that red sweater; it’s really the perfect compliment to the gray.
I love your gardening ideas, it really inspires me to get outside and get my hands dirty. We downsize a couple of years ago and the flower beds were empty! So I’m having fun filling them up, I have so many plants on my list thanks to you. Also as a knitter I love your shawl, lovely pattern.
I have lots of people in my life now that have refrigerator rights, when I was much younger I would have never allowed that. Oh how we grow. Also I bought a Chinese Snowball Viburnum inspired by you, mine is also in bloom again right now, it’s bringing me so much joy!
Thank you Linda for the joy and comfort information and education that you give through your videos. To say that I love them would be an understatement. Unfortunately have no one with refrigerator rights. I wish I did
Hi Linda Thank you for letting us know about the Boston ivy. It is beautiful. Please may i ask what that blue cedar tree is called in your garden? Thank you.
Nice tour, Linda. Love the view from your kitchen window. The portager looks so much nicer with that brick walkway. You did a really good job with that….and you can see that from your window. How is it that you don’t have a gorilla cart? So much easier to move around that a wheelbarrow….and it dumps! Love mine!
Your topiaries looks sensational at this time of the year, they are absolutely beautiful in the background. Now convinced, I need to start working on putting a few topiaries in my garden. Those whom I call “friend” and who also call me friend have refrigerator rights in my house and I always make sure it’s full when I know they are coming😅 Love your mini olive trees on the kitchen windows bench, they are really cute. Beautiful garden walkabout, thanks for sharing👍🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Linda, Can you talk about the early years in your garden? How long did it take for you to arrive at this design? We moved into a new house last year and I’m floundering in nailing down a design. Did you use a lot of trial and error? Or did you get it right the first time? Thanks!
Always my children and grandchildren as well as my aunts, mama, and sister have refrigerator rights and a few of my friends. Thanks as always for sharing your journey.
Lol! The good ole refrigerator rights. Love this saying! For us, it's close family and a few of our closest friends. Your garden still looks beautiful, Linda! I am now the proud owner of golden and orange rocket barberries, thanks to you! :) We still have a good many pine trees in our backyard to take down before I can really get my hands in the dirt back there, so my front garden flower babies are taking advantage of most of momma's attention right now. I absolutely adore the videos of your lovely garden and interior spaces!! Although I am many miles away in the great peach state, I feel like a privileged friend with any time of the day garden and home tour rights. By far, my favorite TH-cam channel!! You inspire me and so many others in more ways than you know.
Linda can you do a review of how all your Southern Living plants faired in the Arctic blast. I am in Texas, and we got it really bad. I lost 75 percent of my trees and shrubs. I’d like to try some southern living collection. It was ONLY a record 4*F degrees in zone 8b/9a. We go 20 years without a bad freeze normally, and not this bad.
Haha Linda, you sparked a memory of my mom with that question..... NO ONE was allowed in her fridge period. And I remember distinctly the time that I had someone over and they just got up and went into my fridge and I thought wait is that ok... I let my inner circle in absolutely.....
Hi Linda, always looking forward to your garden video's. I have dwarf sweet bay in the ground and in a container and love that I can use it for cooking. I am in zone 8A in Dallas Tx.I also have wax myrtle regular size tree that I did topiary as a garden sort of lollypop tree and love, love the scent of it leaves, have been reading about it that the leaves can be used instead of a sweet bay for cooking and also as tea... I wander if you ever did use the leaves for tea or cooking and if a compact wax myrtle is the same?
We had our first hard frost last night in the South Mts (Appalachian foothills) here in South central PA. Daytime temps in the 50’s, nighttime temps in the 30’s. Perfect walking weather during the day. We are dealing with tons of leaves now and will be through the month of November. I am so ready to het my hygee on.
I would like to be a “refrigerator rights” type person, but I am private with a bit of OCD. The few close friends I do have… I really do love. I just express it in a different way. Kudos to you though for opening your heart and home to your friends.
This is MY season. The cooler weather, the foliage color changes, putting my garden to bed (well, that makes me a little sad, but I committed and cut back things already) and then we get to rest. Soup sounds wonderful. I cooked up some chicken breasts and will make chicken and dumplings from another TH-camr (KetoFocus).
omy i love that view! So sorry, i have'nt watched a garden video in a while, but i will catch up soon! Something cozy about seeing you in your fall gloves and scarf! Aw, that's so sweet of you and your friends to have fridge rights! I wanted to ask you, if you could say or show in your vid, since you garden, what is your favorite hand lotion for gardeners hands to heel? My hands get so cracked in the winter with washing or gardening.
Almost everyone that hangs out in my kitchen has refrigerator rights but I have a small frig hidden between 2 pull out drawers. That one is all mine, no one opens that one. Stay away from my tequila, olives and artichokes! LOL.
We had a cat that would occasionally come to the refrigerator when someone opened it, put her paws up on the lowest shelf, and then look up like she was surveying the goods! I guess she had refrigerator rights, too, even though she couldn't open the door by herself!
I wish my oak leafs had more color. They seem to brown up pretty quickly. Make sure your poppy seeds are on top of your compost as they need sunlight to germinate. I haven’t planted mine yet but I hope to have some success.
Your “Refrigerator Rights” question really made me think. In all honesty, while I have a plethora of friends, only a couple fall into the refrigerator rights category. Upon reflection, I think I am somewhat of a control freak when it comes to what people see in my home. I believe I am a good hostess and create a welcoming atmosphere in my home. However, other than an open bar/drink area where folks can serve themselves, I pretty much control what they see. Perhaps I should lighten up a bit? Thanks for a great question.
An embarrassing moment when I assumed I had refrigerator rights at my Mother in Laws house. Stubborn me, having not learnt my lesson, and assuming , the following year, that clothing emergencies for her grandkids would grant us access to her washing machine and dryer. Nope. We no longer burden her with our presence.
How tragic, really. Little things like this can be so revealing of a fraught relationship. My mother did not get along with her mother-in-law (who did not have a good relationship with any of her daughter-in-laws). I remember my mom once saying to one of us kids, "Give this to grandma," and my grandmother snapped back, "I am NOT your grandmother!" Well, duh, as if my mother didn't know that! I suppose she should have said, "Give this to YOUR grandma." Hard to understand why some people act like this, certainly doesn't make life more pleasant for anyone!
When I finally played my barberry (as inspired by your garden) one of the shrubs dropped most of its leaves. I am in zone 5. I plan to mulch it good and see what it looks like in the spring?
I understand your point about too many pots! I have been looking at my collection. Too many crammed in small areas. Need to move them around, just have it on my to do list that I just haven't had a chance to do. Always love seeing your beautiful garden!
Linda, I can’t imagine you moving from your beautiful home but if you are going to Colorado I can understand I live in Arlington Texas and gets so hot 🥵 here in summer that we can’t enjoy our back yard , we would love to move to Colorado. If you can , do it . By the way I love your videos 👍🏻👍🏻
Hey, Linda, your fall garden looks amazing! I love that it is so perfectly trimmed and those barberry . Wow. Did you get help with the tree trimming? You can tell that there has been a lot of work in getting it manicured. Oakleaf Hydrangea leaves makes me want a few. You will need to clarify which son is which and which one had a wedding dress. hehe. Will you be removing those metal stands and empty tubs and baskets around the bed for winter?
I am sure that the word you meant to use was not "schadenfreude" ( satisfaction felt at someone else's misfortune) but "empathy" (understanding and sharing the feelings of others). You are clearly both a sympathetic and empathetic person!
Absolutely no refrigerator rights to anyone. That was a very big deal in the way I was raised. We never opened other people's refrigerator and expected the same respect in our own homes.
This was how I was raised, also. But I think it really depends on the parties involved. If most everyone is more-or-less on the same page, I don't think either way of viewing this is right or wrong.
I live in Little Rock. And I have played and taught music for the last 60 something years(yes I started as a child). But to your question of the day about refrigerator rights... The group with which I have played music for the last 44 years everyone in that group has not only refrigerator rights but also sofa and spare bedroom right... when the lattice house collapsed last year in the snow we extended the patio... last night I was sitting on the patio with one of my dear friends and came to the conclusion that everything I have done in my yard is to accommodate our musical gatherings... I am still learning what survived and what didn’t survive last winter... yet there is something in bloom all year round whether it be camellias in the winter... our yard is rather simple.. but like you I have come to the conclusion that if things are too busy it’s just a lot of work with not as much enjoyment... most of all I think the garden is for a place of joy.
In the hot valley of California, I had a white fly issue too- this is the first year I noticed that they were on all plants; we are hot and dry for months on end.
I have tried olive trees, lemon Cyprus and Myrtle and the have all died. I've kept them moist but the all dried up and slowly lost their leaves. any tips or ideas about what I might be doing wrong?
I bought 3 myrtle topiaries this spring, lost my largest myrtle due to not watering enough. The 2 smaller ones did fine. I didn’t realize just how much water they need until watching another TH-camr (Brandonlarkroberts) who is another fan of Linda’s, who has several myrtle topiaries & mentioned how much he waters his.
My husband calls you “your friend from Oklahoma” . It’s wet winter here in BC, Canada.my barberries have lost their leaves. I have no refrigerator friends close, only California friends who come to visit. It is hard to make friends during covid.
Don't plant the fig. It grows too fast and is terrible for brick and paint! Wish I have the Boston instead. Want to pull all the fig out but think it has spread too much.
I’ve never thought of refrigerator rights. I’m certainly not possessive of mine and the contents would disappoint most people. I’m amazed that your ivy is 30 years old! I think your winters help contain it. There is a lot of fig ivy grown here in Houston and it is so aggressive that it should not be planted near trees or houses. We use Jasmine ivy as a ground cover contained with steel edging. It is so dense it looks like a tiny hedge when contained.
This is the first I've ever heard of refrigerator rights! I personally would never open anyone's refrigerator without permission, other than a close family member.
Refrigerator Right’s: This is reserved for my grown children who no longer live in my home. We have done with English ivy as you have done with the Boston ivy (in the back garden) only difference is we do not get the fall color.
Anyone has rights in my frig! I don't want anyone hungry, so if you find something, its yours! 😀 I love this weather, my garden looks refreshed after colder temps, your view is beautiful!
Linda doesn't have a greenhouse. She has a friend with a greenhouse where she can overwinter her vulnerable plants. You can see some of her studio the Halloween party video.
@@LindaVater I love this kind of thing, seeing humor in the everyday! Since he was a toddler, my grandson has been quite a keen observer of his environment; he takes delight in the quirky things he observes, and will comment on them! I consider that very much part of his cheery disposition!
I have a strange behavior, that I always look in the refrigerator. I'm not hungry, I don't want anything in there, I'm not 'snooping' - I just need to look in the fridge. Sorry.
Hello Linda! It is the first time I have made a comment on your channel. I want you to know that you inspire me to enjoy my garden. I love the fact that you love to change things up. You have a look or style that is unique to you. Yet you can make it accessible to all of us. Thank you!
Leaves and its companion landscape; "signature master artist beautiful painting!" God.
Linda: You have been hinting you are moving for the last few vids…. Spill it !!!!!
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LEARNING SO MUCH FROM YOU THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME AND YES WE LOVE BEING HERE WITH YOU.
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Hi Linda! My husband thinks you must be the hardest working lady in. Oklahoma,he also mentioned that you are very pretty. He knows how much I respect and have improved my gardens over the the time I have been watching you. Also do you have help ? I have hired landscaping people for years and they do all the work but with my ideas. My daughter helps a lot and has also learned a lot from you. People have stopped and ask me how I get my lawn and plants so beautiful,I tell them about you. So happy I have found you. I feel you are my video plant friend, thanks for answering all my questions.
Thank you for your very kind comment! Are used to do it all myself, but now I allow myself to get help from others. It depends on how busy I am, and whether or not something is extremely heavy, or extremely high :-)
I think it means more to me than it does to my friends, when someone goes in my refrigerator. The fact that someone feels comfortable in my house, and secure with me, just makes me feel so good! I have a few people who have refrigerator rights and they’re the most special friends to have!!!
Hello Linda! I am on my fifth! Fifth! Topiary! Rosemary, boxwood, and a lemon tree! Thank you so much for the encouragement and tutorials!
Linda, how blessed we are to have a garden tutorial and a fashion in one show. Always a thumbs up.
Sometimes “ less is more”
As I get older I am liking more empty spaces!
As I get older, I have embraced "less is more," including the hair atop my noggin, LOL
I’ve mastered the art of purging before I bring more in. 😂😂☺️
@@camilla6110 I spent hours this week going through the plants in our sunroom, tossing those that looked like eventual goners, giving a good pruning to those that were getting leggy, and making room for bringing in tender plants, mostly ferns. Several chances for low temperatures around 30° this week.
@@danielallen138 Yes, same applies to gardens, plants and home decor. I do find I have more peacefulness with less to maintain in all areas. 👍👍
Wondelrful walkabout! Just what I needed after a stressful day today! Your garden looks lovely. Just lovely. I have a ton of fall cleanup yet to do and I’m hoping to get my tulipplanters ready for all the bulbs I have in my fridge 😂 I welcome anyone to my fridge and am generous with the refrigerator rights, but pockets will be checked for bulbs before leaving the house! 🌷 Love your outfit - very pretty! Blessings to you Linda!
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I learn so much from reading other comments. Love your outfit today & everyday. I have been making leaf & berry bouquets thanks to your inspiration. I used to on a regular basis, but not so much lately. BUT YOU ARE SUCH A POSITIVE INFLUENCE. In Norcal we've been getting rain with breaks for the last 2 weeks. I love it. I go out to do yard things when there are breaks. The colors locally are breathtaking.
I love her leaf and berry bouquets as well. I will have to try them in the near future. She does such a beautiful job with hers!
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Your garden is so lovely in the fall. I really enjoyed seeing the view from the kitchen window. So beautiful.
Hello from Florida! I've been waiting all day for the Wednesday Walkabout! You and your garden are so inspiring.
Me, too! I so look forward to them! I always get a jolt of excitement when I see the notifications pop up on my TH-cam app. 😀
Next time I’m in the area. I’m going to ask for plant rights. Forget refrigerator rights. I’ll make sure I have a shovel and some containers in the trunk. You are such a blessed person. Everyone, this is the real Linda, such a kind and giving lady. She truly appreciates each follower. And folks Linda and I don’t share refrigerator rights. We’re both gardeners and I have attended several of her presentations, you can’t help but be inspired by her passion for gardening. I’m kinda eyeing that orange sweater. 😍
So you think you have wardrobe rights? LOL
My grown daughters have refrigerator rights, but when I’m having a gathering I encourage people to help themselves…I too am from a large family, I must thank you Linda, you and Laura have changed my gardens, for the better! Before I had 4 topiaries, but I have added about 20 boxwood, and more other shrubs, I’m having a ball! HA HA
Yes! Much to my surprise, I really liked the way your garden looks with fewer pots. For me it's the tension between artful disarray and messy 💚
I so agree!
I meant the tension in my garden. Your garden never looks messy! I just wanted to make that clear 💚
Well, first, let me say, that I LOVE watching these Wednesday videos! The Boston Ivy is absolutely GORGEOUS and I will definitely be looking at that for my garden! I LOVE the beautiful berries it produces as well. And, oh my goodness, that Chinese Snowball Viburnum is just SPECTACULAR!!! Another favorite, I saw in your pots is Bay leave....I love to use those leaves in the winter, for cooking, as well! What a wonderful watch! I've got A LOT to do next year!!! LOL....Take care, see ya next Wednesday!
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I love the look of your garden now. I am adding more shrubs and trees as i get older . And bulbs that will naturalize.
That was such a cute question, refrigerator rights! Never thought about it, and there are some I certainly would allow to do that ❤️.
Your garden looks so quite and peaceful and I so enjoy all your videos and your narrating them to perfection.
Your outfit is gorgeous and you always look stunning!
Thanks for your devotion and sharing your knowledge with us. Have a great weekend and looking forward to your next video! P.S. I can’t wait for your book to arrive, I am counting the days! 🌾💐🌹🌷🌼
Haha. I love it: refrigerator rights! Me and my best friends are this way! I laugh too because sometimes when we visit we will nap. I said there’s no better friend than one that will nap with you!
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Everything looks absolutely stunning! You have mentioned the Greenhouse in many videos. I would love to see a video incorporating one of your greenhouse trips. My very talented hubs is going to make a small one for our garden (hopefully in the spring) Would love to see how you transition your plants.
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I laughed when I heard “refrigerator rights”. Friends and family definitely have rights and even pantry rights. I love that red sweater; it’s really the perfect compliment to the gray.
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I love your gardening ideas, it really inspires me to get outside and get my hands dirty.
We downsize a couple of years ago and the flower beds were empty! So I’m having fun filling them up, I have so many plants on my list thanks to you. Also as a knitter I love your shawl, lovely pattern.
I love all your foliage, especially the nandinas. I love nandinas, especially in the winter!
Thank you, for explaining why you do things! Love your garden!
I have lots of people in my life now that have refrigerator rights, when I was much younger I would have never allowed that. Oh how we grow. Also I bought a Chinese Snowball Viburnum inspired by you, mine is also in bloom again right now, it’s bringing me so much joy!
Thank you Linda for the joy and comfort information and education that you give through your videos. To say that I love them would be an understatement. Unfortunately have no one with refrigerator rights. I wish I did
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Muy LINDO JARDIN!,muchas especies, Bendiciones!
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Hi Linda
Thank you for letting us know about the Boston ivy. It is beautiful. Please may i ask what that blue cedar tree is called in your garden? Thank you.
Blue Atlas Cedar:)
Nice tour, Linda. Love the view from your kitchen window. The portager looks so much nicer with that brick walkway. You did a really good job with that….and you can see that from your window. How is it that you don’t have a gorilla cart? So much easier to move around that a wheelbarrow….and it dumps! Love mine!
Your topiaries looks sensational at this time of the year, they are absolutely beautiful in the background. Now convinced, I need to start working on putting a few topiaries in my garden.
Those whom I call “friend” and who also call me friend have refrigerator rights in my house and I always make sure it’s full when I know they are coming😅
Love your mini olive trees on the kitchen windows bench, they are really cute.
Beautiful garden walkabout, thanks for sharing👍🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Margie waterman yes I love Brecks and we have been planting tulips daffodils and alliums
I planted 13 containers of bulbs already after watching you Swiss garden!
Linda,
I busted out laughing when you said your son's wedding dress, but I knew what you meant! L0L
Linda, Can you talk about the early years in your garden? How long did it take for you to arrive at this design? We moved into a new house last year and I’m floundering in nailing down a design. Did you use a lot of trial and error? Or did you get it right the first time? Thanks!
Always my children and grandchildren as well as my aunts, mama, and sister have refrigerator rights and a few of my friends. Thanks as always for sharing your journey.
Lol! The good ole refrigerator rights. Love this saying! For us, it's close family and a few of our closest friends. Your garden still looks beautiful, Linda! I am now the proud owner of golden and orange rocket barberries, thanks to you! :) We still have a good many pine trees in our backyard to take down before I can really get my hands in the dirt back there, so my front garden flower babies are taking advantage of most of momma's attention right now. I absolutely adore the videos of your lovely garden and interior spaces!! Although I am many miles away in the great peach state, I feel like a privileged friend with any time of the day garden and home tour rights. By far, my favorite TH-cam channel!! You inspire me and so many others in more ways than you know.
You my dear just made my afternoon!
@@LindaVater Glad to hear it. Have a pleasant rest of your day! :-)
Linda can you do a review of how all your Southern Living plants faired in the Arctic blast. I am in Texas, and we got it really bad. I lost 75 percent of my trees and shrubs. I’d like to try some southern living collection. It was ONLY a record 4*F degrees in zone 8b/9a. We go 20 years without a bad freeze normally, and not this bad.
I love this idea for pumpkins...thank you for sharing!
LindaI wish you could sell the pottery container feet for pots! Maybe QVC next Spring! Thanks for being you !
Beautiful view!!! So lovely!!
Nice view 😍
Question about your Redbuds....I have never seen any with such dark, almost black trunks. A certain species? Enjoyed the walkabout!!
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Haha Linda, you sparked a memory of my mom with that question..... NO ONE was allowed in her fridge period. And I remember distinctly the time that I had someone over and they just got up and went into my fridge and I thought wait is that ok... I let my inner circle in absolutely.....
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Hi Linda, always looking forward to your garden video's. I have dwarf sweet bay in the ground and in a container and love that I can use it for cooking. I am in zone 8A in Dallas Tx.I also have wax myrtle regular size tree that I did topiary as a garden sort of lollypop tree and love, love the scent of it leaves, have been reading about it that the leaves can be used instead of a sweet bay for cooking and also as tea... I wander if you ever did use the leaves for tea or cooking and if a compact wax myrtle is the same?
We had our first hard frost last night in the South Mts (Appalachian foothills) here in South central PA. Daytime temps in the 50’s, nighttime temps in the 30’s. Perfect walking weather during the day. We are dealing with tons of leaves now and will be through the month of November. I am so ready to het my hygee on.
I'm looking forward to your Winter Garden .... I've never seen it !? Fall looks great.
I would like to be a “refrigerator rights” type person, but I am private with a bit of OCD. The few close friends I do have… I really do love. I just express it in a different way. Kudos to you though for opening your heart and home to your friends.
This is MY season. The cooler weather, the foliage color changes, putting my garden to bed (well, that makes me a little sad, but I committed and cut back things already) and then we get to rest. Soup sounds wonderful. I cooked up some chicken breasts and will make chicken and dumplings from another TH-camr (KetoFocus).
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omy i love that view! So sorry, i have'nt watched a garden video in a while, but i will catch up soon! Something cozy about seeing you in your fall gloves and scarf! Aw, that's so sweet of you and your friends to have fridge rights! I wanted to ask you, if you could say or show in your vid, since you garden, what is your favorite hand lotion for gardeners hands to heel? My hands get so cracked in the winter with washing or gardening.
Almost everyone that hangs out in my kitchen has refrigerator rights but I have a small frig hidden between 2 pull out drawers. That one is all mine, no one opens that one. Stay away from my tequila, olives and artichokes! LOL.
We had a cat that would occasionally come to the refrigerator when someone opened it, put her paws up on the lowest shelf, and then look up like she was surveying the goods! I guess she had refrigerator rights, too, even though she couldn't open the door by herself!
I wish my oak leafs had more color. They seem to brown up pretty quickly. Make sure your poppy seeds are on top of your compost as they need sunlight to germinate. I haven’t planted mine yet but I hope to have some success.
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I love your shawl ! I love your boots! Thanks for mentioning them, i need new boots!
Could you do a vid on identifying seedlings?
Linda, can the Boston Ivy be detrimental to the Redbud?
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Your “Refrigerator Rights” question really made me think. In all honesty, while I have a plethora of friends, only a couple fall into the refrigerator rights category. Upon reflection, I think I am somewhat of a control freak when it comes to what people see in my home. I believe I am a good hostess and create a welcoming atmosphere in my home. However, other than an open bar/drink area where folks can serve themselves, I pretty much control what they see. Perhaps I should lighten up a bit? Thanks for a great question.
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An embarrassing moment when I assumed I had refrigerator rights at my Mother in Laws house. Stubborn me, having not learnt my lesson, and assuming , the following year, that clothing emergencies for her grandkids would grant us access to her washing machine and dryer. Nope. We no longer burden her with our presence.
How rude of her. I’m not that type of MIL.
I have to concur!
That's sad.
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How tragic, really. Little things like this can be so revealing of a fraught relationship. My mother did not get along with her mother-in-law (who did not have a good relationship with any of her daughter-in-laws). I remember my mom once saying to one of us kids, "Give this to grandma," and my grandmother snapped back, "I am NOT your grandmother!" Well, duh, as if my mother didn't know that! I suppose she should have said, "Give this to YOUR grandma." Hard to understand why some people act like this, certainly doesn't make life more pleasant for anyone!
When I finally played my barberry (as inspired by your garden) one of the shrubs dropped most of its leaves. I am in zone 5. I plan to mulch it good and see what it looks like in the spring?
I understand your point about too many pots! I have been looking at my collection. Too many crammed in small areas. Need to move them around, just have it on my to do list that I just haven't had a chance to do. Always love seeing your beautiful garden!
Linda, I can’t imagine you moving from your beautiful home but if you are going to Colorado I can understand
I live in Arlington Texas and gets so hot 🥵 here in summer that we can’t enjoy our back yard , we would love to move to Colorado. If you can , do it . By the way I love your videos 👍🏻👍🏻
My poppies do the same thing Linda! Great one year and not so great the next!
Hey, Linda, your fall garden looks amazing! I love that it is so perfectly trimmed and those barberry . Wow. Did you get help with the tree trimming? You can tell that there has been a lot of work in getting it manicured. Oakleaf Hydrangea leaves makes me want a few. You will need to clarify which son is which and which one had a wedding dress. hehe. Will you be removing those metal stands and empty tubs and baskets around the bed for winter?
I love that refrigerator rights ! I’m spoiled living here in Newport Beach California with our weather .
I am sure that the word you meant to use was not "schadenfreude" ( satisfaction felt at someone else's misfortune) but "empathy" (understanding and sharing the feelings of others). You are clearly both a sympathetic and empathetic person!
Absolutely no refrigerator rights to anyone. That was a very big deal in the way I was raised. We never opened other people's refrigerator and expected the same respect in our own homes.
This was how I was raised, also. But I think it really depends on the parties involved. If most everyone is more-or-less on the same page, I don't think either way of viewing this is right or wrong.
I live in Little Rock. And I have played and taught music for the last 60 something years(yes I started as a child). But to your question of the day about refrigerator rights... The group with which I have played music for the last 44 years everyone in that group has not only refrigerator rights but also sofa and spare bedroom right... when the lattice house collapsed last year in the snow we extended the patio... last night I was sitting on the patio with one of my dear friends and came to the conclusion that everything I have done in my yard is to accommodate our musical gatherings... I am still learning what survived and what didn’t survive last winter... yet there is something in bloom all year round whether it be camellias in the winter... our yard is rather simple.. but like you I have come to the conclusion that if things are too busy it’s just a lot of work with not as much enjoyment... most of all I think the garden is for a place of joy.
In the hot valley of California, I had a white fly issue too- this is the first year I noticed that they were on all plants; we are hot and dry for months on end.
i found great buys in bulbs at Home Depot
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Love this
I would love to post a picture of my beautiful Hellebores here but it would allow a picture. Is that the way you set this up?
Linda where did you get the gloves? I love them!
Old Navy!
Is Boston ivy as invasive as English ivy? I love ivy but the English ivy became a nightmare and I had to remove it.
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I have tried olive trees, lemon Cyprus and Myrtle and the have all died. I've kept them moist but the all dried up and slowly lost their leaves. any tips or ideas about what I might be doing wrong?
I bought 3 myrtle topiaries this spring, lost my largest myrtle due to not watering enough. The 2 smaller ones did fine. I didn’t realize just how much water they need until watching another TH-camr (Brandonlarkroberts) who is another fan of Linda’s, who has several myrtle topiaries & mentioned how much he waters his.
Love your kitchen view!
My husband calls you “your friend from Oklahoma” . It’s wet winter here in BC, Canada.my barberries have lost their leaves. I have no refrigerator friends close, only California friends who come to visit. It is hard to make friends during covid.
You don't think ivy hurts brick or stucco? How about creeping fig?Yes, friends and family have rights to fridge.
Don't plant the fig. It grows too fast and is terrible for brick and paint! Wish I have the Boston instead. Want to pull all the fig out but think it has spread too much.
I’ve never thought of refrigerator rights. I’m certainly not possessive of mine and the contents would disappoint most people. I’m amazed that your ivy is 30 years old! I think your winters help contain it. There is a lot of fig ivy grown here in Houston and it is so aggressive that it should not be planted near trees or houses. We use Jasmine ivy as a ground cover contained with steel edging. It is so dense it looks like a tiny hedge when contained.
This is the first I've ever heard of refrigerator rights! I personally would never open anyone's refrigerator without permission, other than a close family member.
Refrigerator Right’s: This is reserved for my grown children who no longer live in my home. We have done with English ivy as you have done with the Boston ivy (in the back garden) only difference is we do not get the fall color.
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Anyone has rights in my frig! I don't want anyone hungry, so if you find something, its yours! 😀 I love this weather, my garden looks refreshed after colder temps, your view is beautiful!
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Can you show us your studio? Where is your greenhouse?
Linda doesn't have a greenhouse. She has a friend with a greenhouse where she can overwinter her vulnerable plants.
You can see some of her studio the Halloween party video.
I watched A Garden Home Christmas. P.Allen Smith. It was about how Nandina. berries are poisonous to song birds. He removes his in the early Spring.
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Another excellent video. We have pantry rights and beverage frig rights in our home.
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My granddaughters have refrigerator rights for sure! First thing they do after mandatory hugs is to start searching my kitchen!
I would be really upset if my loved ones didn't feel they have refrigerator rights. Of course they do 😁
When my children were young their friends thought they did....OH NO!!! But some of my friends could, but they would never ask. My sister does.
About buying your book. Do you prefer us to order through your link or directly from Amazon?
Is Boston Ivy invasive?
Can you please tell me where you got the stands for your plants in your kitchen windows
Bay tree? Would that be actually a tree or a plant that you have grown to a tree?
Won’t the ivy growing on the trees harm the trees?
My entire family, my siblings and my nieces and nephews have total fridge rights.
Do you have a garage?
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"bought from the same shop you got your son's wedding dress"...I know what you mean, but had to laugh
Lol. Yes…I thought of that right after I said it… But all of my talking is right off the cuff as you can tell :-)
@@LindaVater I love this kind of thing, seeing humor in the everyday!
Since he was a toddler, my grandson has been quite a keen observer of his environment; he takes delight in the quirky things he observes, and will comment on them! I consider that very much part of his cheery disposition!
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My adult kids will always have refrigerator rights.
Currently, only my teenage grandsons raid my refrigerator
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I have a strange behavior, that I always look in the refrigerator. I'm not hungry, I don't want anything in there, I'm not 'snooping' - I just need to look in the fridge. Sorry.
Everyone who comes into my home has refrigerator rights. 😇