Two Garden Experiments: Grape Trees & Faux Boxwoods! 🤓🍇🪴 // Garden Answer
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Laura, I so appreciate your ability to evolve! No faux to there's a time and a place for faux. No berms to adding berms. No boulders/rocks in the landscaping to adding large boulders and tree stumps. A much needed reminder for the world that nothing is ever black & white and our preferences can evolve. ☺It's always a joy to watch you! 💗
Also she started using red/shades of red flowers in the garden...those who follow her know that she likes soft colors yellows purples etc
Woohoo!! Welcome to my world! I am 74, and my energy is not what it used to be! I love vicariously thru your videos, I love what you do. Faux can be a blessing! Keep up the good work!
Looks good 😊
Same here Kathy...I'm 71, can't bend down to garden anymore. I still watch GA every day 💚
Good for u, I’d do the same, love your videos ❤️
Same here, @kathydove5429. I just turned 75, so I like the faux plants! My arthritis is worse in my hands, so I am not able to do as much gardening. I still love to watch GA and get ideas!
I know! I agree so much!! I live just 15 miles from where Laura and Aaron do. It amazes me what she gets to grow so beautifully in this very dramatic high desert climate. I feel like I’ve been liberated!! There’s a couple of areas I want to use faux plants!!!! Yay!!!!!! 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
I think the potted children look the best .
Real life cabbage patch kids! 😂
🤣🤣👍🏻☀️💕
The cutest blossoms in the garden 🥰
Agreed!! 🤣🥰 🪴 🪴
I had no idea that you could grow children in pots!
You need a rain chain on the end of that gutter. They’re charming and do a great job of directing the rain to fall straight down.
Yup!!
I think the arborvitus pretendus look fantastic!
Arbovitus Pretendus!! 😂☠️ I love it!
Amazing totally agree and this comment wins lol
Those two sweeties in the Pots! The loveliest of all the flowers you have grown!
I love that, despite what you do for a living, you'll use faux plants and are gutsy enough to share it with us! Go Laura! And darn, those faux boxwoods look good!
I see that Samantha is following in her mother's shoes, or is that the lack of shoes, haha! Sandals, bare feet, and jackets! You all make me laugh.
My thoughts 💯 %
I appreciate the respect you show your children. Really sweet that they're never the focal point of your videos. Some TH-camrs seem to use their kids for clicks and likes but you don't. Sweet kids and supportive parents ❤️
I second this!
Spray the boxwoods with a scotch guard weather spray to keep their green color as vibrant as they are now. It truly helps!!
Putting black stones on top of the potting mix might be a good idea, the dry soil will eventually blow everywhere🌸💮🌼
I too thought that something would be needed on top. The pebble/rock idea sounds like a great idea!🙋
Should have only used rocks and pebbles..Here in Kansas without roots...those would blow over.
Some kind of weight (grey rock to match porch or black to match pots?) Keep soil in place and add weight, that's my 2 cents for what its worth (inflation, should have been a nickles worth) 😅
Looks like you guys have this covered, I was thinking the same thing.
@@JamiePeterson-g6d Same here in East TN. They need weight!
Front porch area looks awesome. Maybe a rain chain on the corner of that front porch gutter? Love all of your projects!
I thought about that too. So it must be something to think about.
I thought the same thing! I think it would help with the rain issue and it would look really nice! There are so many beautiful rain chains they could choose from.
A rain chain is a great idea and they have so many designs and colors
Laura, thank you so much for giving me permission, even though that wasn’t your intent, to use faux plants!! 😆😂😂😂. I feel like I’ve been freed!!! 🥰🥰🤣🤣🤣I’ve wanted to pull the plug on this for a while. I’m 65, and I live just 15 miles from where you and Aaron live. After nearly 30 years of being an RN and lifting very sick patients, my neck and back or not what they used to be. And I am astounded at the beauty you two create in our very drastic high desert climate!!!! Thanks so much!!! ❤❤❤❤❤
Hi! I am a retired nurse. Used to work at St Al’s in Boise. Grew up outside of Nyssa. Also have issues with my back. Hope I’m not too nosy, but just curious. Where are you?
@@laraemitchell9064 Vale. Just west of Vale. 🥰
If you would’ve never said those were faux I don’t think any of us would’ve known! They look great!
Watching Samantha swing on the Willow brought so many memories of my daughter swinging on our Willow! Tarzan was the popular movie at the time and she would play for hours❤️
Absolutely Yes to the fake topiary, nothing! Nothing! Wrong.
Sometimes you need to do what is best for you, that’s a message you have always said and encouraged others to do.
Every year the strong warm wind would burn one of the topiary’s on either side of my front door. Then about 7 years ago, I had had enough of replacing and worrying about another topiary. So I bought 2 fake pyramid styles of topiary and I love them. I love them because I don’t have to worry about them, I have changed them out to give my front door area a different look and they always come back out at Christmas with either soft white fairy lights or green lights.
Sometimes you just have to admit defeat 🤭
Growing children is always the best thing to grow! And you have 2 darling varieties!
That is why we love you. For your brave and honest approach. Not many garden youtubers will have the corage to show to the world how to plant a fake boxwood. But, there you are....and we love it, because these is real.
Benjamin and Samantha are the best 'crop' ever planted and harvested in your garden. :)
Hi Laura, loved your fake plants. Can I suggest you can hang chains in that corner of the roof for the water to fall nicely. I have seen in Bali. Sometimes they put a ceramic pot underneath to collect rain water. Greeting and thanks so much for your videos. Love it!!!!
Yep Rain chains are lovely !!!
Yes, we have rain chains in some spots on our house. They handle the water nicely and look great!
love Samantha going full Tarzan on the willow branches behind you at 14:53 🤣
It’s funny to see you anxious about a plant. Even with all your experience there are still new things to try and feel unsure about. It’s relatable and that’s why I love your videos because you are real and genuine.
House looks great, Laura. Nothing like a fresh coat of paint to refresh things. Faux plants have their place. Those are perfect for that spot. Just enough. No fuss, no muss. I think your grape experiment will be fine. They certainly have good roots. Time will tell. 😊💕
One of your endearing qualities, Laura: Your wholesome vocabulary. Your children's inner lives are rich, partially because of both of your minds.
When you set the faux planters on the porch I was already envisioning how sweet they will look with white Christmas lights on them. Good luck with the grape experiment. I'm also a seasoned gardener....71 years young.
I couldn’t like you more today! You talking about something you saw in a magazine and then you laughing as you do it and debating how to cut it. I feel so heard! We just needed Aaron to come along and react/ comment as most spouses would. Best of luck with the experiment of the grape trees ❤❤
Thank you for liberating me and my wife to be able to mix in a faux plant or two where needed! We love your channel and your beautiful family. God bless you all!
I was delighted to see the faux plants, my dear mother used faux plants, and was as delighted as if she grew them, she was so much fun, her beautiful fountain had a hole so it wouldn’t hold water and her pretty bird houses had a block at the entrance, such a girl, and I miss that free spirit! Good on you and the pretty faux boxwoods!
I think I have a problem.... I just watched Laura plant a fake plant, and now I gotta have some for my porch! Send help soon! 😂😂😂
I bet they actually grow!
Wouldn’t surprise me😆
Me too! Total north facing on a wide porch time for faux!!🌳
🙋🏼♀️ Same!! 🤣🤣🤣☀️
I need two for the urns at the front door of my church! Where do you get these? ❤
I like the faux plants up there on the newly painted house. Very smart not to waste all of the money you just invested in your property. The children are truly adorable.
Thank you for reminding us that there is still a time and a place for faux greenery even for the best of gardeners! I love how it looks and that it solves the problem of protecting your painted wood exterior.
Oh my gosh the newly painted house looks sooo nice , and those faux shrubs are perfect !!!
The faux plants look great and might be the most relatable to a huge portion of your audience. Thank you for all you do!
Two fantastic garden experiments. Can’t wait for the grape trees to put on some growth. As they mature, they will look beautiful in the two pots you chosen for them. Now that you allowed yourself to use faux boxwood, it will become okay for all the GA followers. Such a fun video! Samantha and Benjamin in the big empty pots was so cute!
Oh I love that magazine, it's such a good read. I also love the UK version of Country Living magazine. I love nothing better than sitting in the garden with a good cup of coffee, listening to the birds singing, reading a lovely magazine. It's such a treat 📖🐦🎶💐🌞😍
Beautiful faux plants are a great solution to fixing a chronic problem. They look fantastic!
Love the way you are not afraid to continually try new things, and push out of your own comfort zone/areas of expertise. Means we can follow your successes (and occasional) failures, and apply the lessons learnt from both in our own gardens
Your face at 10:41 was so funny, Laura! 💚 Fun planting and project day, but the kids each climbing inside those beautiful pots was the highlight!
The "finished product" comment for the grapevine trees cracked me up 😄 can't wait to see the progress of them. Also, it was a bit nostalgic to see the sun porch again! It was featured in so many older videos but with all your new spaces we don't see it much anymore. Maybe a video recap there soon for old time sake ☺
The house looks great. I am glad the window boxes are gone. You have enough to keep up without them. Watch you every day.
You have the best ideas! Children in pots. Solves so many challenges. 🤣😉 The children are so creative and fun. Really like the grape vine idea. How pretty will that be?! As always, your channel is a bright spot in my day. Thank you!
Oh. My. Word. The peach tree blooming!!! Talk about stop you in your tracks!!! GORGEOUS!!!
The faux containers look great. And I was so surprised to see where you put them. I have always loved this little porch area of your home, with the beautiful iron railings and the sun porch.So picturesque. I got all nostalgic when I saw it and realized I miss your videos from the sun porch. It reminds me of when you first moved here. Do you no longer use the sun porch because you now use the Hartley? I think you should bring back your sun porch spots. At least occasionally? Luv ya Laura.
Grape topiary - Linda Vater will be proud!! The Faux boxwood topiary’s look real and beautiful. You are smart to think “less maintenance and more efficient “ as you guys get older, you’ll appreciate the extra effort you put in now. Thank you from N. Florida Zone 9.
Last year I used faux flowers in the pots on my porches because those areas require hand watering and I just can't anymore due to health issues.
Such a blessing. I was so worried about being judged for it, but what I ordered looked surprisingly good. No one said anything negative, a few people wanted to know what they were so they could grow some. 😊 The topiaries look good.
The fauxwood project really worked out. I can’t wait to see how the grapes on standard progress!
I love how you hold the grape after you potted it and cut the branches off. It’s like you’re quietly apologizing and asking for forgiveness for chopping bits off. 😂 or maybe you were saying a little prayer “please grow to look like the picture.” 🤔 😂 love watching you.
The faux topiaries are beautiful!! 😍 You will love them. I have had topiaries for years… real lollipops, junipers etc. that either were lopsided in size or one would brown while the other would thrive. It was frustrating. I’m in the second year of my faux plants (that are in full sun and sits in front of my porch and exposed to the elements) and they have not faded. You have a beautiful home and gardens. There is nothing wrong with wanting to keep your porch looking it’s best!!!! Enjoy 😊
Oh Laura your on to something here(as usual) these grape topiaries are going to be gnarly!🥰🍇
Very excited to see the grapes grow in the pots!
Love the faux boxwoods! If they do eventually fade I think they make spray paint for fake/dead plants and grass 😂
I can't wait to see the grapes leafed out and grapes hanging from the vines.😊 The faux boxwood looks real, and they look great on your porch.
Ohhhh, Laura loved what you did today. Can't wait to see how the grape vine trees turn out I just know they will be spectacular. And the faux trees look absolutely beautiful on your porch. 😊❤ but the sweetest pot's were of the kiddos loved how Samantha got right into it then Benjamin tried it out. Love your kiddos ❤️ 😊
God's blessings to you all . ❤
STUNNING! view behind the barn now, the billowing clouds, undulating fields. BRAVO. I'm so happy for you.
LOVE the little ones playing in the pots ❤❤❤
oooo, watching this whole 'grapes in a pot' idea... might be my chance for fresh grapes! sending positive growing vibes your way!! and you know, sometimes faux is the answer.. i have a plant-eating cat who doesn't seem to have any internal alarm about good or bad plants, so yeah, i have a few faux things around inside to make me feel like i have some plants inside... my neighbor has pots almost identical to the ones you got, and hers have looked fabulous, outside with socal sun on them, for 3?4? years now... she has the perfect place for them and it really adds the touch she wanted to her front walkway, and i approve.. no pruning, no die back, no watering... just an occasional spritzing to get the dust off... and so many faux plants look very real these days... i think you will be happy with yours... and the fresh paint looks great!! love those kiddoes in the pots, too cute!! 🥰❤thanks for the video!! 🥰❤
Awe. I loved the window boxes. I hate to see them go. I loved watching you decorate them. I’m sure you will have plenty of new things to come.
Oh I can’t wait to see how the grapes do! I’m going to try it out as well! And can we take a moment and admire how pretty your dwarf peach looks like right now in full bloom in front of the greenhouse!🌸
Laura....you bless me so much!
Just when I thought I could not love you more, you go and recognize (out loud and everything!) that sometimes there is a place for faux. 😊
You have inspired me so much and I think I'm close to attempting drip irrigation in our raised beds, but I am nervous.
Thanks for all you do.
Feeling the love in Tennessee!
I love what you have done to your spread! As a keen gardener I learn a lot from your videos. I don't know if you have looked but you can see your property form the air on Google Maps! Impressive. Looking forward to seeing how you develop the new land.
The faux greenery and the painted house look great! And I still love the red front door. 😊
@gardenanswer Laura!!! Your little giggle of uncertainty is the cutest!!! Can’t wait to see updates on this “experiment”. I think it’s going to be a success!! (Just like almost everything you try…)
I have faux topiaries on my front porch, and no one has ever been wiser! I don't have dirt in the pots, though, and now I think I should do that, as they sometimes fall over in a strong wind. Thanks for the idea - and the validation!
Faux plants a great place to put them. Love your children playing in the pots.
I think the faux boxwoods look fantastic! As does the new paint job on the house, especially behind the hydrangeas in front! I also love that the lilac on the front west side of the house keeps hanging in there. :)
Love the kid pots. It will be fun to watch the grape "trees" grow. Thank you. 😊
I originally saw the title and thought perhaps this was an April fools joke posted a day late. 😂 Laura use faux boxwoods?? I am pleasantly surprised at how fabulous the topiaries look in the formal porch! And the grapes! I would have never thought of it. Such a great experiment. I hope it goes as well as the photo shows!
💚 Enjoying everyone’s comments! What a great community! 💚
Absolutely love your newly renovated porch area. What a beautiful spot to sit & drink some iced tea. Thanks for sharing
Ooooooooooo grapevine trees… a must for our kitchen patio. Thank you Laura ❤️
" I can't believe a sister of mine would have fake plants in their house. " ~ Laura
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Those grape vines have landed in the right place...looking forward to seeing them grow.
The faux boxwoods are so realistic looking! Keep us posted on the grapevines please. 👍
I've never seen a grape trained that way before🥰! I LOVE IT! I want it now🫥.
WOW! The house looks amazing, all newly painted in crisp white. And the faux boxwoods just add to the charm and wow- factor ❣️
Good morning! I think these faux plants look so nice on the porch. If it fixes the watering problem for real plants than there is nothing wrong with it. Everything looks so fresh and clean.
They look really good for faux, and that's a great solution for a problem area. And they'll be super easy to string lights on at Christmas!
💕 love the 🍇🍇 grapes in containers 👍
You did good! Looks fantastic, really ties the space together. You could never tell they are faux
The faux evergreens will be great for Xmas lighting! 🎄
Those faux topiaries look great! I'll be interested to see if the color fades. I loved watching your determination and excitement on the new grape project! I have no doubt they will be beautiful with your help. ❤ The house looks so nice with the fresh paint!
Good for you Laura for trying new things!
That faux is going to look amazing with fairy lights at Christmas time 😊
I think the faux boxwoods look awesome! A great solution to a problem and they look real to me. Cheers!
Good morning,Laura ☕️What a neat idea for the grapes! I am so going to try this. The faux boxwoods looks so good! Have a Blessed Day😊🐈🐈
The artificial shrubs by the door is perfect. Trying to keep an evergreen plant alive on the porch would be a real challenge. Going faux is the best choice.
Laura, imm so excited about the grape trees. this is so awesome. Love the idea of the fake boxwoods. They are going to beautiful on the front porch. And also you wont have to worry about your porch staining or rotting through. Great video.❤
The house looks amazing, the porch urns are perfect...but Laura...WHEN are you ever going to plant that bed around the fountain!!!
I love it, especially the grape vine idea. Faux looks amazing too.
The fauxs look great! Gives the porch that colorto look inviting but not overwhelming. Love greenery in black pots.
Can't wait to see how the grapes grow and thrive.Great video❤
The porch looks great with the faux plants❤The children have such fun, growing up in a wonderland created by their lovely parents!!!
I LOVE LOVE LOVE your Weeping Willow tree!!!
The view behind you from the back of the green wooden house is stunning. It looks like you are higher than the town in the distance.
I love the faux boxwoods...I have some exactly like them at my front door. I have had for over a year and they still look new. Beautiful! Good luck with your grape trees. Looking forward to see how they grow in the next year. I have been watching you since before you moved. Your channel has just got amazing over the years! First thing I look for in the morning. God bless your beautiful family. 🙏
Love the new paint on the house. It looks so good. The faux plants are beautiful and I love how your iron railing detail shows up so much better now. Can’t wait to see how you do the front area. Have a great day.
You guys work so hard. I love the faux trees, they look gorgeous.
Lol, Benjamin is at the show off "look at me" stage. So cute when kids are at that stage, except when you have formal or serious guests over, lol. I just bought two grape vines and you have given me a great idea that I am also going to try.
Interesting to see the progress on these. The faux look great on the porch.
Love both projects. It was so nice to see the sun porch again. I remember when when so many videos were filmed there and we got updates from that space. It would be nice to see how you are using that space now.
Good Morning! 🍇 Saying a prayer & crossing my fingers for those grapes! The house looks great! The faux boxwoods look perfect & i agree about protecting the fresh new paint job! 🙂🙏🍇🌲🌿
Faux can be fabulous. You nailed it!