I could watch episodes of _this_ exact type of video like I used to watch _The Office._ Over and over and over and love it every time. Selfishly, I'm so happy your speaking engagement changed to online. -If you ever get a notion to- do another one!!! _Edit: I found more! A whole series!_ 🎉💃
It’s nice walking quietly through my Santa Monica neighborhood taking photos of trees and flowers. I love trees and I have gotten many ideas for my own yard to combine colors better. There is so much beautiful around us to appreciate, right.
I’ve gardened (flowers & plants) since I was a child, learning from my Mom, 67 years now~ and still find more to learn & enjoy~ Your video offered many great new tips & examples! Thanks!
There are so many great takeaways from this video that I can use to create an even better garden space. I definitely care what visitors see. I walk around my garden space all the time so I see it from all angles. I’d be extremely self-centered if I faced everything to Only me.
Thank you so much, appreciate the simplicity and minimalism for us common folk. We all have to become more water wise and energy efficient, planting indiginous. Appreciate your article. Love from Africa
great explanation to focal points, to draw the eye AND. Focal points can invite, entice you to physically go in, be part of the garden. Such as the red bench.
I enjoyed this video! You showed a wonderful tropical side yard, with tall slender palms. I am definitely taking this idea for my own relatively bare side yard, using native plants. My back yard already needs very little maintenance, and I am now involved in trading many of the exotics for native plants. The few I have already planted, make berries for the birds, flowering for the pollinators, and already I have more visitors! Thanks to your video, I am encouraged to add a focal point including a bench to make it interesting for humans, too!. Thank you for sharing this wealth of information. Mmmm...I wonder if I could put in a small pond in a shady corner? Wouldn't that be something?!
Hello Canadian gardener, I am near Waterloo, New York, USA, in zone 5 Thank you for Sharing your knowledge. I am doing a new landscape designing in my front yard, which has two retainer walls. I love an evergreen conifer garden with Asian shrubs and dwart trees i.e.Japanese (garden) shrubs, Japanese Shaina)maple trees, thuja arborvatae, landscape rocks, water fountain; idea flowers: Chicago Peace rose, Clamatis (Rebecca); hisbiscus (midnight Marvel) complimented with sunshine ligustrum ; and red knockout rose standard. Again, Thanks for your inspiration.
This vid has given me so many ideas for my garden, it's already an unusual layout and set on a hill in a rural setting. A friend is cutting 30cm logs for me which I will be laying upright next to the sides of my driveway to define it more. Now to find something for the empty front corner of the yard...
Hi Robert, This is a very helpful video. I like it very much! In the chapter about scale you mention the Miscanthus being too high for this place. I think it is too high for this exact spot between the two pathways running up and down this sector of the garden. From the single image it is impossible to know what is to the right of this perspective and what is there looking back. But the trees in the back give the impression of a sheltered garden niche. The tall Miscanthus hampers the feel of standing in the sheltered garden niche. And that does not just come from the height of the grass, but from being tall and being in the center. You love Japanese style gardens. In Japanese gardens no things are placed in the center, there is never any symmetry. Yes, they place focal points in sections of the garden and these do dominate that section, but they are always balanced with other things in other parts of the garden. The Miscanthus sits in the center of that section of the garden and emphasizes the symmetry between to the two paths to the right and the left of the dry creek bed. Placed a little bit out of center, a little closer to the trees I believe it would work well. I actually believe that the concept of the garden as a shelter or niche is also an important design principle. It creates intimacy, a feel of being safe and calm. When you are the there, you are not on a field, on a loan or meadow, you are IN the garden. This is often very obvious with tiny gardens. But also large gardens implement that concept, for instance by surrounding with large evergreens and trees. Large gardens sometimes create very narrow, sheltered spaces which contrast with the larger spaces in the garden. -Peter
I just found your channel. I'm building my house next January, well starting to. I was thinking of planting some trees and shrubs as soon as I get the layout of the house .but now I'm gonna wait till its built. Like you said I should look out the window of the kitchen, living room and library and plan the garden accordingly. No point in having a nice tree if you don't get to see it. Thank you The focal point idea is just brilliant. I also have a ton of photos like you said, and I'm gonna steal some cool ideas from them
What a great video! Excellent and plentiful examples. I'm so inspired! I have an odd elevated raised level in my flat backyard. I'm going to capitalize on this "issue" and create a more interesting garden. Also, I have to say, I LOVE GRAY FENCES!
I’m enjoying your approach to design and how to start! Thank you ! Time stamp 8;23 about.... your bench on the hill. I believe the bench communicates it’s ok to walk into the flower bed, almost like giving permission, to clarify to the bystander you are meant to enter this planted space. I myself am Very visual and I didn’t feel invited to venture onto the path. Path looks a bit like a maintenance path.
Sound practical advise! Don't keep all the fun stuff for yourself. On a walk through a local rainforest, someone had left a red rubber snake on the track for all to enjoy.
Well done. Good video & good simple ideas with a clear & practical perspective on what works & what doesn’t. By the way that tall grass doesn’t work at all, however if it was a multi stem small tree that you could see through or something like a feathery fennel, also that you could see through, then the scale wouldn’t be a problem.
Hello. Just found your channel and enjoying your videos. I do want to warn folks about using mirrors and bird fatalities. The birds think the mirror is a continuation of the landscape and will fly into them. They may die on the spot or fly away and die later from the head trauma.
Fences: Beware the HOA. The HOA might be unhappy with your paint choice. (boo!) and if you're in an area where it snows...that blue or purple fence will really stand out without the vegetation to hide it. Same for painted furniture (IF you're in an HOA, that is). If everyone has lawns, they might not like your landscaping, of choice of plants. Otherwise, this is one of the better videos I've seen with the most helpful advice. Simple and to the point! Well done, I will recommend it.
I’m half way through doing my front garden…. I needed something to break up a large brick wall (neighbours building) I asked permission to put something on it and they allowed me to do anything I wanted. I got a stone fire surround for free off the internet and used a mirror in the back of it (it’s not to use, just a feature) I get so many compliments about my garden and it’s not even finished yet
Loved the photo of your gravel path edged with stones. Do you put landscape fabric under your gravel? We made a gravel patio last year and used both fabric and road base. This year I’m contemplating laying some gravel paths and not sure if either is necessary. Would appreciate your thoughts. Thanks!
Only in the USA or Canada would the police be called for photographing a garden 😅. In the UK we'd be inviting you in then asking for free advice 😊. Great video by the way.
Nice video. Thank you . I agree with your wife about flamingos LOL. (I'm selfish. Everything growing in my garden/flowerbeds are planted to... face me. I don't care what people see. I care what I like too see. I don't have, nor do I strive to have a focal point.) :-)
You don't need to be a millionaire. You can use elements of larger gardens such as this and scale them down to your garden size. Your tea house might be a bench instead for instance. A bird bath. A small fountain.
How many people have gone to the pelton arms because they have seen their logo on your bunny hug. Yes i live in western canada. See if you can get some sponsoring from them. You are advertising they could not afford.
I could watch episodes of _this_ exact type of video like I used to watch _The Office._ Over and over and over and love it every time.
Selfishly, I'm so happy your speaking engagement changed to online.
-If you ever get a notion to- do another one!!!
_Edit: I found more! A whole series!_ 🎉💃
Glad you enjoyed it!
It’s nice walking quietly through my Santa Monica neighborhood taking photos of trees and flowers. I love trees and I have gotten many ideas for my own yard to combine colors better. There is so much beautiful around us to appreciate, right.
Thank you very much, all of your videos that I’ve watched so far have blessed me.
I love the surprise flamingos!
Agree. There has to be a "destination" in a garden to draw you in. Lovely garden.
Forgot to mention I have learned a great deal. Thank you so very much.
I have learned so much from this video and I even have some big ideas of what I’m going to do in my garden.
I’ve gardened (flowers & plants) since I was a child, learning from my Mom, 67 years now~ and still find more to learn & enjoy~ Your video offered many great new tips & examples! Thanks!
do more of these. i enjoyed this a lot. old and new neighborhoods, what works and what doesn't. great vid
The plan is to produce a full design course on youtube this summer.
Hello from MA. As always….outstanding video! ❤️👍
There are so many great takeaways from this video that I can use to create an even better garden space. I definitely care what visitors see. I walk around my garden space all the time so I see it from all angles. I’d be extremely self-centered if I faced everything to Only me.
I have been binging on your videos for two days now. Thank you so much for sharing your vast gardening knowledge and your garden as well!
Thank you so much, appreciate the simplicity and minimalism for us common folk. We all have to become more water wise and energy efficient, planting indiginous. Appreciate your article. Love from Africa
I loved this video and it gave me great ideas!!
You give out so much free content that I love. Thank you!
That is a surprise to see the garden of the castle of Gottorf in Schleswig, Germany!
great explanation to focal points, to draw the eye AND. Focal points can invite, entice you to physically go in, be part of the garden. Such as the red bench.
Thanks, Robert. I especially like the sections on false perspective and scale. And, of course, I love your quirkiness.
More videos, please! I find this one useful and interesting - thank you!
Really enjoyed this, thanks a bunch!
I will definitely borrow that idea with a bench as a focal point. This video was such a good guidance for me. Thank you so much for sharing!
I love your flamingos!!
Again! You’ve gave me more things to improve in my garden😂😅😅😅😅Thanks????
The focal point section resonated with me -maybe not as big as a tea house…
Thank you. I need focal points in my garden,! Can’t wait to try these ideas
Thank you for sharing what you know, you are appreciated, great video, I learned so much and was inspired!
Love all these ideas and love that you have examples!✨🌿✨
Beautiful, and thank you for educating us concerning facts about gardening. Love your garden.
Great thoughtfully helpful video!
Your gardens are gorgeous!!
Thank you for taking the time to create beauty & for caring to share!!
Thank you I'm going to look at our garden with a new perspective some of your ideas are quite simple but create a big impact 👍
thank you ...great info...beautiful garden
Amazing lessons and tips. Hilarious too. Thank you 🙏🏾
This just popped up on my TH-cam app. Great content. Thank you, really enjoyed it.
Very useful tips! Thank you. I already have a job now to do outside now - move some points of interest so that they have more impact.
I enjoyed this video! You showed a wonderful tropical side yard, with tall slender palms. I am definitely taking this idea for my own relatively bare side yard, using native plants. My back yard already needs very little maintenance, and I am now involved in trading many of the exotics for native plants. The few I have already planted, make berries for the birds, flowering for the pollinators, and already I have more visitors! Thanks to your video, I am encouraged to add a focal point including a bench to make it interesting for humans, too!. Thank you for sharing this wealth of information. Mmmm...I wonder if I could put in a small pond in a shady corner? Wouldn't that be something?!
Great video! Your garden is beautiful. I love how you explained interest and scale. Thank you so much!
Thank you! I am going to watch it now.
Hello Canadian gardener, I am near Waterloo, New York, USA, in zone 5 Thank you for Sharing your knowledge. I am doing a new landscape designing in my front yard, which has two retainer walls. I love an evergreen conifer garden with Asian shrubs and dwart trees i.e.Japanese (garden) shrubs, Japanese Shaina)maple trees, thuja arborvatae, landscape rocks, water fountain; idea flowers: Chicago Peace rose, Clamatis (Rebecca); hisbiscus (midnight Marvel) complimented with sunshine ligustrum ; and red knockout rose standard. Again, Thanks for your inspiration.
thanks a lot for all the great ideas!!
This vid has given me so many ideas for my garden, it's already an unusual layout and set on a hill in a rural setting. A friend is cutting 30cm logs for me which I will be laying upright next to the sides of my driveway to define it more. Now to find something for the empty front corner of the yard...
Love the flamingos.
Excellent video, you gave me something to think about.
Very interesting ideas ! Thanks !
Hi Robert,
This is a very helpful video. I like it very much!
In the chapter about scale you mention the Miscanthus being too high for this place. I think it is too high for this exact spot between the two pathways running up and down this sector of the garden. From the single image it is impossible to know what is to the right of this perspective and what is there looking back. But the trees in the back give the impression of a sheltered garden niche. The tall Miscanthus hampers the feel of standing in the sheltered garden niche. And that does not just come from the height of the grass, but from being tall and being in the center. You love Japanese style gardens. In Japanese gardens no things are placed in the center, there is never any symmetry. Yes, they place focal points in sections of the garden and these do dominate that section, but they are always balanced with other things in other parts of the garden. The Miscanthus sits in the center of that section of the garden and emphasizes the symmetry between to the two paths to the right and the left of the dry creek bed. Placed a little bit out of center, a little closer to the trees I believe it would work well.
I actually believe that the concept of the garden as a shelter or niche is also an important design principle. It creates intimacy, a feel of being safe and calm. When you are the there, you are not on a field, on a loan or meadow, you are IN the garden. This is often very obvious with tiny gardens. But also large gardens implement that concept, for instance by surrounding with large evergreens and trees. Large gardens sometimes create very narrow, sheltered spaces which contrast with the larger spaces in the garden.
-Peter
This was a great video thank you!
I just found your channel. I'm building my house next January, well starting to. I was thinking of planting some trees and shrubs as soon as I get the layout of the house .but now I'm gonna wait till its built.
Like you said I should look out the window of the kitchen, living room and library and plan the garden accordingly.
No point in having a nice tree if you don't get to see it.
Thank you
The focal point idea is just brilliant.
I also have a ton of photos like you said, and I'm gonna steal some cool ideas from them
EXCELLENT VIDEO!!
Great video thank you
Sincerely appreciate your observation and effort putting them all together to come up with a nice video and a book. Thanks for your garden eBook.
I enjoyed this so much. Thank you!
What a great video! Excellent and plentiful examples. I'm so inspired! I have an odd elevated raised level in my flat backyard. I'm going to capitalize on this "issue" and create a more interesting garden. Also, I have to say, I LOVE GRAY FENCES!
Thank you for the video
I’m enjoying your approach to design and how to start! Thank you !
Time stamp 8;23 about.... your bench on the hill. I believe the bench communicates it’s ok to walk into the flower bed, almost like giving permission, to clarify to the bystander you are meant to enter this planted space. I myself am Very visual and I didn’t feel invited to venture onto the path. Path looks a bit like a maintenance path.
Sound practical advise!
Don't keep all the fun stuff for yourself. On a walk through a local rainforest, someone had left a red rubber snake on the track for all to enjoy.
Well done. Good video & good simple ideas with a clear & practical perspective on what works & what doesn’t. By the way that tall grass doesn’t work at all, however if it was a multi stem small tree that you could see through or something like a feathery fennel, also that you could see through, then the scale wouldn’t be a problem.
Hello. Just found your channel and enjoying your videos. I do want to warn folks about using mirrors and bird fatalities. The birds think the mirror is a continuation of the landscape and will fly into them. They may die on the spot or fly away and die later from the head trauma.
Good ideas! Thank you . One question: what are the plants with purple flowers @17:05?
The leaves look like the plants are some type of very tall azalea.
Lol, I love to look at someone else's garden too and am sometimes scared to look too deep because of that same reason as well. Too funny.
Thank you
Great job very informative
Fences: Beware the HOA. The HOA might be unhappy with your paint choice. (boo!) and if you're in an area where it snows...that blue or purple fence will really stand out without the vegetation to hide it. Same for painted furniture (IF you're in an HOA, that is). If everyone has lawns, they might not like your landscaping, of choice of plants. Otherwise, this is one of the better videos I've seen with the most helpful advice. Simple and to the point! Well done, I will recommend it.
I’m half way through doing my front garden…. I needed something to break up a large brick wall (neighbours building) I asked permission to put something on it and they allowed me to do anything I wanted. I got a stone fire surround for free off the internet and used a mirror in the back of it (it’s not to use, just a feature) I get so many compliments about my garden and it’s not even finished yet
Excellent
Check out Schnormeier Gardens in Gambier, Ohio -- it is a gorgeous oriental garden that is accessible only a few tours a year. Incredible beauty.
Hello from Stratford Ontario. I was on your Facebook group but I haven’t see you.
This is a good video !
Great ideas! This video was kind of like listening to Al Franken critiquing garden design. That's not a complaint by the way 😁
You could take a number of these photos and create a music video entitled "Secret Garden".
good info
You should try painting your bench a bright color like you suggested.
My benches are teak and right now need no maintenance. If I paint them, I'd have to maintain them.
Loved the photo of your gravel path edged with stones. Do you put landscape fabric under your gravel? We made a gravel patio last year and used both fabric and road base. This year I’m contemplating laying some gravel paths and not sure if either is necessary. Would appreciate your thoughts. Thanks!
Never - don't use it anywhere in the garden. Use 1/4" crushed rock and 6-8" deep.
@@Gardenfundamentals1 thanks! That’s deep!
Thanks for sharing ☝💤atsuuup 👍
Only in the USA or Canada would the police be called for photographing a garden 😅. In the UK we'd be inviting you in then asking for free advice 😊.
Great video by the way.
You could put a railing on that slippery bridge that follows the curve. Or sandy strips on the surface. Hate to see you slip.
I critique landscaping too.
Good ideas. The wood laying on the ground uneven edges and gaps in between ... bit of a hazard to walk on. Otherwise some ideas for inspiration. 😊
The frog can go also.....where did you grow up? Cleveland?
Một nụ cười có thể thay đổi một ngày một cái ôm có thể thay đổi một tuần một lời nói có thể thay đổi một cuộc sống.
Some very pretty gardens. But I wouldn´t want the general public, people I don´t know, the hoy polloy in my garden
I live in New Mexico. I am looking for visuals to help me add balance, intrest, and beauty.
Nice video. Thank you . I agree with your wife about flamingos LOL.
(I'm selfish. Everything growing in my garden/flowerbeds are planted to... face me. I don't care what people see. I care what I like too see. I don't have, nor do I strive to have a focal point.) :-)
I like brown chairs. The purple chairs look tacky.
The great thing about garden design is that there are no wrong answers - always design for yourself.
Your wife is right about the flamingos also
Call your Mother Nature face Father Time!
Yes, ‘Father Time’ fit the statue better, than calling it mother natural,,I agree👍🏼
🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🏆🌿🌳💚
Not every one is a millionaire
You don't need to be a millionaire. You can use elements of larger gardens such as this and scale them down to your garden size. Your tea house might be a bench instead for instance. A bird bath. A small fountain.
Good taste can’t be bought!
@@0026i so so true
Clem - ay - tis
They "saw" the bench.
How many people have gone to the pelton arms because they have seen their logo on your bunny hug. Yes i live in western canada. See if you can get some sponsoring from them. You are advertising they could not afford.
Pink flamingos aren't special.
Not cool to take pics of people's yards and then publish them for all the world to see without their permission. But I get it
I tried to get a permission form signed - but the plants would not sign one.