I'm a single Mama of seven little ones. Our pennies are all spoken for long before we ever see them, but gardening for me is vital to my mental health, as well as helping to enrich our menu. Very much enjoyed this video. So inspiring.
You're a good Mama. Your children will see what you're doing and will pass it on to your grands and/or great grands. My G. Grandmother (in the South) had her own garden. Her daughter, my Mimi, was a free spirit and it didn't "take" due to her love for apartment living but *my* Mom learned and attempted it for a while until she discovered corporate life was more her speed. Now here I am and I love a home and getting my hands in the dirt. My memories of my my G. Grandmother and us kids helping her to shell beans and picking fresh fruit from the trees, eating the food we picked remain in my memory. You're right, too, of course; regarding the mental health & enriching our menu. Blessings on your journey.
I used to dumpster dive at one local nursery for cast off plants and pots and then take those pots to another local nursery that gave store credit for turned-in pots...free plants...yeah🤗
@@lilymccool1 it's garden layering. Growing ground and root crops herbs and plants the make the land fertile then things like fruit bushes also vegetables and other Bush types then trees like fruit trees, nut trees. Also any trees and vegetation the benefits wildlife. It has many different ways.
@@rainrowan4939 How wonderful 💖 I just came across this page just today... Boy am I ever greatful, God knows exactly what we need... Even if we don't! My family has been having a rough time these days... Medical issues besides the world as it is right now. I can't wait to dive into it and get to know some of you guys. I'm loving all your messages so far... Yyyyyyyyyyyaaaaaa ❣️🥀🌺🌸🌻🌼🌹🍄🌿🍂 Yes I can be silly for a 63yr old.. LoL
Always an inspiration. I kept my first grandsons black gum boots, when he was 5, he is now 18, and although they are a bit dry rotted, as at the toe part, I have planted sedum in them at the top and toe, they are at a spot that I go out each day through and am reminded of him. In Joy
As my Grandmother would say: necessity is the mother of invention. You are a shining example of what is possible on little more than love and goodwill. I just love watching and listening to you Colette. Love and blessings to you and dear Jack 💓xx
Great ideas! It's rumored that children's author Beatrix Potter started her beautiful garden from cuttings, most taken from others' gardens and foraging. I got many of my woodland plants and flowers from sites that were planned to be cleared for building homes too! I saved them (and many critters like frogs and turtles, etc) from being destroyed and got free garden plants at the same time
I "saved" a bank of Oak Leaf Hydrangeas from a construction site at the end of our road. What started as half a dozen 25 years ago has turned into dozens and dozens spread across our garden and shared with family and friends...free. We also dug hundreds of daffodils bulbs from the site of an old trailer court that was being turned commercial. I had driven by there for years enjoying the nodding heads of the daffodils every spring. Now they nod their heads in my garden...and my son's, gardens, neighbors, friends, the postman. We shared them widely. All free for the asking.
My first gardening book, bought when I was a young teen, was “Making Things Grow”, by Thalassa Cruso. Whenever I hear someone use the phrase “potting on”, it makes me smile and think of her and that time in my life. I’m old now, still “potting on”, and appreciate the economic tips. It’s especially nice to not only keep things from going into a landfill, but to actually use them to bring forth life. Thank you!
I live in a home owners association, my husband and I have been complaining about our front yard for two years now. We finally decided to purchase & plant our own plants in the front yard. We chose similar plants to what we see throughout the neighborhood, took pictures of the plants, flowers, trees we purchased and emailed them to the HOA to which we received no response for 2 months. We finally went ahead and redid our front yard and I must say it looks great! Now the HOA is threatening to fine us if we don’t remove the hundreds of dollars worth of plants we planted in our own front yard. Out of spite, I went around the neighborhood with native, endangered plant species seeds and I’ve been spreading them all around the neighborhood. It will be illegal for the HOA to remove the endangered, native plants. Wink. Wink. Don’t tell anyone it was me spreading those seeds like a nutty, seed fairy on my nightly dog walk. Forgive my rambling. I’m just so irritated. Your garden is lovely
I LOVE this. Not only do you forage, you are building community as well. I think we are too isolated...(at least here in the U.S.). I miss a sense of community and I'm living where I grew up. It's not that I don't know anyone....but there is so little ability to connect with others.....thank you, thank you for sharing what you do. Love your videos.
@@bealtainecottage That would be wonderful ...no neighbours using chemicals keeps the water clean . The land could be revived , the garden of Eden grow... What a dream this is..
Love your frugal gardening tips & tricks! I made two beautiful planters out of tires and disguised them with stones. We also have an old tractor tire my husband was going to PAY to get rid of! I said not so fast! I feel another planter coming on! Next I want to try my hand at building an arbor from tree limbs. Thanks for the brilliant ideas Colette!
Love your garden, its a really magical spot. The arches are awesome for free, much nicer than anything you could buy and who doesn't want a mini stonehenge in the back yard.
It always amazes me what you can pick up just by speaking to people. I've swapped cuttings with friends and neighbours many times and I ask for the flower buckets in the supermarket as they don't reuse them. My local tyre centre will happily give them away as they pay to recycle. It always makes me feel a bit smug 😂
I love the arch you made of sticks and the wattle fence. There is a lot of downed wood here due to storms. In the US we call items made of sticks Adirondack style because people who live in the Adirondack mountains traditionally made and probably still make all kinds of things out of sticks from picture frames to some pretty awesome chairs and other pieces of furniture. Very good ideas!
Collette I absolutely adored this video and will definitely be watching it again. I'm a new gardener at 48 years old and have already made so many mistakes by planting things back to front in my small border this year haha. I'll move things at the end of the year. I have no trees, no bushes and no shade here in the Midlands. I'd love a tiny version of your garden and have loved the free frugal ways you have done it. I'll take notes from your video and thank you for sharing. I'd love more frugal videos like this as I have hardly any spare money now. This video was amazing! Xxx
You're my favourite gardener Colette! I love your intuitive style of gardening. I broke off 4 bits of plant material at the base of my elder tree, potted them up and they are all thriving. I am so excited to think of growing my own elder trees from those 'free' cuttings! I really enjoyed this video. x
I think too often we get hung up on the idea that a garden needs to be all tidy and proper when really, the most relaxing gardens are like yours Colette, natural abundance, created frugally with an honest intent to honer the earth. Thank you for your beautiful soothing videos. We are still far from planting time here in CT but it takes me away from the worries of the world to see your beautiful gardens and hear about your life. Thank you for sharing with us. You are such an inspiration to those of us striving to create a situation much like yours.
I wish more people gardened like this ❣️ I've always saved and recycled old and broken things, sometimes they'll sit in my shed for a few years and then I find a use for them. Before I retired I unfortunately let my big garden go wild, due to lots of overtime work hours. So last year I removed elm trees that had taken root, moved Rose of Sharon and lilac shoots to other parts of my yard. My son wasn't convinced plants could be saved, he just wanted to tear them out and start again. Now I'm in the 2nd year of a many year project and I can point to plants I planted 24 years ago and they are flourishing. Free can come from your own neglect. Blessings.
It was a great pleasure watching this video, again, and seeing Jack was an enormous feeling that somehow my Ziggy and Jack managed to get together in their journey. Blessing to you all. (They crossed the bridge almost the same time, I still miss them greatly.)
My sister went through a phase of putting tins of ‘posh’ gardening string in with my Christmas presents, bless her, so I have enough to last for years!
I love this video! Our great grandmothers were sharing starts before we even had garden centers here in the US. I like the 3 legged chair. Most people tend to throw things out when they are no longer perfect. Many of those things can be artfully repurposed as you have done. I have a lovely old stone jug with a hole in the back. I just put the broken side against a wall and it makes a pretty accent for my flower bed. I have become very interested in the bottomless pots you featured in several videos and hope to try those. Our library used to have a plant exchange each spring before COVID. I hope that will return some time. Blessings to you and Jack. 💚
Have you considered growing hen-and-chicis in that jug? I used to have several damaged pots and I'd grow those in them, they were so freaking cute lol.
My husband has learned to ask me before he discards "broken" objects. If it is a vessel into which I can put a drain hole it can become a planter. Additionally, I am always needing to stake something in my garden. An old metal bookshelf was dismantled and put to use supporting plants around the garden.
I love that you’re surrounded with shrubs and trees and everything looks so green and natural. I live in a older neighborhood. While we have a couple of matured large oak trees, sadly we can still see neighbors’ houses behind our house. We just bought our new home and my plan is to plant some fruit trees and flowering shrubs to block some view from my neighbors back porch 🤣 to create that feeling that I’m surrounded with Mother Nature.
Thank you so much for sharing all of this today and over the years. I've been taking inspiration from you and using it as I rework the land around my Mother's house. I think she thought I was a bit crazy at first..."what are you doing with those logs....those rocks...those branches...?" etc. Now she knows and sees that these things that were just laying about or dug up can be used to make something new and beautiful.
Colette you’re an amazing beautiful person! I could listen to you talk all day!!! Your videos are sooo calming to me and I really love how Jack just interacts with you in the garden. He’s such a wonderful companion! I could sit in your garden all day and be blessed with the calmness and hearing the birds! Really just enjoying God’s creations! You live in a paradise!!! Ty sooo much for sharing! Blessing to you
More wonderful inspiration from you Colette. My home made window boxes are doing their job 😁 made from an old dresser top, inspired by you. I made a propagator from old wood and some corrugated sheet I had laying around, after seeing yours with the old window on top and my cut and come again are so happy x I am enjoying every minute as you do. Thank you so much for your videos x Full Moon blessings to you and Jack x
Your such a kind soul Colette, watching you walk about in and out of all those living plants and trees has to be the most relaxing moments of my day. I love seeing things like old water buckets and wheel barrows etc used to plant things in such as heather etc. You are living your dream and the dream of many others. Blessing always to you Jack and your family.💞xo
It just amazes me the beauty in your gardens and the things you have used to build and decorate it with!! If I used those materials, my place would look like a complete dump, you do it and it all looks like a work of art!!! I’m so envious!! Love it!
The year and a half have been so crazy for me and I didn't watch much YT. Lately, I've been trying to catch up with my favorite TH-camrs and I am finally back to your channel today and oh, how I've missed it! I cannot believe how much work you've done at Bealtaine Cottage and how much it has grown! It's so different compared to the last time I saw any of your videos. I'm so happy to be back here at one of my favorite happy places. Blessings to you! :)
Colette, if I used tyres, tin cans, old chairs, copper bowls etc in my own garden, it would look like Steptoe's yard 🤣...you, my lovely friend, have what is called 'the knack'...or, 'the eye' for creating total beauty out of whatever you lay your hands on!!🤗 Even the way you 'position' your garden statues and ornaments is beautiful...given the exact same ones you have, ask me to place them around my own garden, it would look like I was getting ready for a garden sale🤭 I don't know how you do it, but I sure am glad you do!! Blessings.
It may sound a bit nutty, but I ask "them" where they want to go and where they would be happiest ...find it works with Plants , and even things I find at Op shops ... will quiet my Mind and wander about till I can feel happy or Joy ..of course bit hard to do with anything heavy hahaha ..and You can always move them somewhere else later xx
Lovely.... absulutely some gardens are overgrown and need emptying for orther plants to thrive. More people need to know just how easy it can be. Nature will always fight to keep on living.
The benefits of your inspiration on my gardens here have been impeccable this spring. The permaculture truly looks like it’s starting to take affect this year, making barren spots look more lively and disrupted soils more complete. Love to see the spring time magic of Bealtaine Cottage, thanks bunches for the content! These longer videos are my favorites! ☮️🌍
Wonderful! Thank you for all the wonderful and practical suggestions. They are most appreciated. Years ago when I was an unemployed single mother, I used to forage for plants when I was out and about walking. I thought, jokingly, I should start a blog called The Welfare Gardener. 😂
Here in my state of NC we have a service called Chip Drop. You go online, and request some chips. A tree removal company in your area drives by with their wood chips, and delivers them for free! 12 cubic square feet of FREE chips for your garden! I placed my request so I can use them as walkways for my yard and gardens.
The only caveat I would add for Chip Drop is that - if you have Ash trees - its possible that the Emerald Ash Borer is in the chips. My plan is to go to the dump and pick up some of the mountain of chips - bag them up for a long time and the use them in the garden. They should heat up in the bag if left in the sun...
@@rnupnorthbrrrsm6123 when I lived in northern Minnesota a local tree service was elated to drop truckloads of wood chips at our place. We had a wood chip mountain! You may have better fortune contacting tree services directly. Is it spring there yet?
Such a joy for me to see your gardens grow and change through the years. When I haven't been able to watch your videos for a while and then I catch one like this and I get a proper chuckle when I realize that I know that that path will soon lead to the pond or a fairy ring. That's when I I realize that I know this wonderful woman all the way over across the pond in Ireland a truly warm and comforting feeling that pushes away the chaos in the world. Thank you so much call out for sharing your light and love of Mother Nature. Blessings
I absolutely love this video collette. I have watched it again and again and again over the years. I always forget about free and I've spent (and wasted) so much money whilst being impatient. Frugal gardening is something many of us want to do now, especially with the cost of living. I watch in hope that you may make a similar video one day. I adore how you have made such a frugal garden outside your front and back door. I get excited each year to slowly watch it burst into colour. You have done an amazing job with everything and you continue to teach us all how to look after mother earth. Many of us have taken it for granted over the years. You are a credit to the planet you beautiful lady x
Just want to let you know....i recived my bumperstickers resantly. I am so pleased. They make me smile every time i approach my car. Thank you and fore the blessing as well
Well done Collette you are an inspiration and a wonderful ambassador for permaculture. Its something I've just discovered thru your channel. You deserve our support. Blessings from Tipperary
I love the title of this video Colette. People love to trade plants or give them away, this comprises much of my garden. I have found lots great stuff on the side of the road that others no longer want. Garden centres here often let you take their "ugly," half dead plants off their hands too. You have created a beautiful garden Colette and I just love that you stick the cuttings straight into the earth, as I always thought you had to root them first :) Also love the way you are starting the videos with your lovely welcome at the door. May Blessings to you and Jack. xo
I just found your channel & I'm so glad I did. I'll be playing catch up on all your videos every time I can squeek out a few minutes! I love the sound of your voice... so calming. I started out with this video on starting a garden on a budget because we're just finishing up building a new house after a total loss house fire. It seems important to me to get the yard & veggie gardens up and going asap & to get everything looking like it's been there a while. Mental medicine, you know? So thank you for this video & I'll be back to take in more & let your voice just take my daily stresses away, even just for a bit. And Jack.... give him a good scratch & a cookie for me... he's so handsome & seems like the perfect garden buddy. God bless!
I'm an opportunist like you! I love to get plants for free, but also, I enjoy giving away seeds I've collected or spare plants either grown from seeds or cuttings.
Love the mirror in between the tree branches! The bird songs are delightful..everyone must be so happy there with you! Enchanting world you have created. You are a true Earth Goddess. Precious puppy dog,too.🙂🌱🦋
Instead of string you can use brambles. Cut them off and scrape the thorns off with a knife blade and you have a really strong string. It's very supple if you use it straight away after cutting it, when it's still got all the sap in it.
Your talking my language ,honey....I just put in a flower bed and used old boards I found laying around.....& Old bricks ...look around my house re- use junk...thank u so much...1st x seeing u ..I love free...💗..lol I work in a gro store these Men who run it..throw away such cool stuff.....oh your rose!! Beautiful & n tired ...you have a lovely garden..love accent ..so pretty hello fr West Texas 🇨🇱🌵USA...very very dusty dry here..but lovely nites
Mmmm...I love Bealtaine Cottage's rustic gardens! I too am a frugal gardener...who lives in a small city in Central California. Rescuing others' failing plants, taking cuttings and raiding various compost heaps have added great variety to my Mediterranean-styled plot. And estate and yard sales (giveaways) have netted some cheery ornaments too.
Colette- there is magic throughout your acreage . The materials available for planters are endless! Their limit is your imagination '-) Beautifully done! I was happiest in the days when I was broke and resourceful...
Your garden is a haven for fairies and woodland folk!!! I LOVE it!!! I could sit there for hours in quiet. Fantastic place you have and you have done a wonderful job building this utopia!!!💚🙏🧚🌱🌿🍀
I have a comparatively small garden and have tried to create most of it for free, stolen cuttings, driftwood, stone and raiding skips etc., but what I don’t have is your wonderful foresight when trying to plan different areas, planting in harmony. I also feel sorry for‘weeds’ and then don’t know where to start! However the bees and many wonderful insects seem to like me so that is lovely. I probably will carry on sitting in my little wilderness until my health enables me to put some of your beautiful, inspirational ideas into my own patch! Thank you, and Jack for your wonderful films and chats. I could listen all day, bless you.
It's a pleasure to see your home and garden. Last week the pastor from our neighborhood church needed some plants and she knew that I would have some. She had bought from the garden center but it was too expensive to do the garden the way she wanted. I loaded her up with plants that I had made from my garden and my only request was to bring my pots back because that's how you get more plants from me! It's fun to give plants away. ❤️
I love watching your cottage garden blossoming and so creative in your designs in the way you balance nature and practial also harmonising in a spiritual and earthly way. I do house clearances also charity clearances and keen recycler hunter. I built my home and the acreage that my home sits on out of what I found and cleared also resale the rest that is of good resale condition. Just been given 20 more tyres so sitting in wondering what I can do with. out of the last 30 tyres I had I made pet beds/seat and planters which are now all sold. Anymore ideas be gratefully received.
A circle of wood and a cushion on top one would make a good chair, or leave off the cushion for a table. Another one could be used to loop your garden hose inside when not in use. I used one on my mom's porch to store my little gardening kit until the landlord complained it was "unsightly".
Hello my dear lady😊.You're such an intelligent person when it comes to gardening, planting and harvesting, it's incredible I love it!! thank you for sharing this video it helped me to learn how to save money and time how grateful I am for that😊.Love and peace to you Sweet Colette and adorable Jack from Texas USA😍🙏🙌
Your garden is just gorgeous... and so is your dog. I also look after a lovely English lady's garden in Tasmania and can relate to your experience regarding collecting cuttings. Sharing garden love over a cup of herbal tea is the best. Bless you!
Hello Colette from the USA....so love the castle window. I was thrilled to see it. Such good ideas. I myself have used some of these free ideas..you have inspired me even more. Blessings to you and Jack💖💖
Here in Australia we have verge collections for garden waste and unwanted items like plant pots and other furniture etc. That is where I get pots and other containers for gardening. As well as furniture for repurposing.
Good morning i realy love honey suckle the smell is so lovely .and the ferns i love greenery .your gorgeous dog happyily wagging his tail whilst walking around the gsrden was a joy to see thank you x
I absolutely love this,i remember my grandma planting all sorts of flowers in her garden,vegetables i would always sit and watch her there is nothing more satisfying then being out in nature,your garden is beautiful i admire what you have done and appreciate you sharing may God bless you & Jack🌹💕
I hope all the young gardeners see this video, much to be learned and inspired by, thank you for sharing your lovely garden, best wishes from Rice Lake, Wisconsin, USA.
I’m not sure I’d use tires. But I love using old pots, logs, left over wood cuttings, bricks, etc. Foraging and recycling in this disposable consumer society….. is HIGHLY underrated if not downright disparaged ! Ignore the people who say you’re a “ garbage “ collector, they’re fools.As long as you don’t create a junk yard and make use of everything you collect, you are just being frugal , environmentally friendly and sensible.
Thank you for a beautiful and informative video. In the US, we celebrate Memorial Day next week, and one of my family traditions is planting flowers on the family graves. My aunt and I have been doing this for the last ten years or so, and every year, we rummage through the trash bins for the plastic containers that people throw away after planting the flowers. I haven't bought a container in decades.
Hello , I've been wanting to tell you thank you for sharing your knowledge of gardening and your very helpful, creative tips for planters. What a beautiful place to live that you have created, your artistry shows every place imaginable.
Your garden is absolutely beautiful. The birds singing in the background are enchanting. I live in America in the state of Missouri. I own 7 acres and it’s virtually a blank canvas. It used to be a hayfield with a few spatterings of trees. I live in a camper and in the process of building a small little home of maybe 750 Square feet. What I see in your garden is what I would like to have here. So far I’ve planted 38 trees but by the looks of things I might need a plant 38 more to even come close to what you have. I believe the canopy is important aspect of the loveliness of things on the ground. I have had to scrounge around for things to make do just like you have it’s a work in progress and maybe always will be. But I’m having so much fun doing it.
Love your garden and your wonderful friend, Jack! My late husband, Jack, adored border collies so I am so pleased to see your Jack walking thru this celtic garden with you. Thank you! I am in the process of starting a garden at my new location in Elliot Lake, ON, Canada where I have been given plants by a neighbour. Lots of free items were left by previous owners as well. Also seeing plants, such as lilies, discarded by other gardeners along roadsides and in the public woodland behind my house that I can transplant to my yard. Found a lovely white Columbine growing in an area where the town works dept dumps piles of snow collected off city streets. Amazing how many plants are growing wild after escaping town gardens. Blessings to Jack and you.
I love walking down alleys and forests and finding the most lovely plants. People forget how necessary and valuable old tree stumps are and what they add to the ecological health of your garden… I do love how your dog is right in there with you as your constant companion… PS…where I live, a lot of beautiful old homes are being torn down to build new ones for people who don’t appreciate their beautiful old qualities …or the history of the community….sadly, their mature gardens are just torn up and ripped apart to make way for a bigger house and minimalist “ garden” . So I try to save a lot of these beautiful plants and bits from these old homes and gardens, , so they can live on and be appreciated in my gardens… NEW is often NOT better. I don’t understand why we have lost the appreciation for the artistry, handwork and handiwork of those who came before us…Why people prefer cheap China made to well made , hand made original works of art.
Colette, you made me giggle (in a good way). You are one very clever lady! Good for you! Scavenging "stuff" that is tossed: one woman's trash is another's treasure for sure! I so wish I had the younger body I used to have so I could garden again. Instead, I put my flowers into my embroideries. Thank you for all of the delightful walks in your woodland. Amazing! From empty land to your magical "forest"! 🙂
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No I need to find a way to have a house with a garden without money, just joking, I do appreciate your tips 😊🌷
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I'm a single Mama of seven little ones. Our pennies are all spoken for long before we ever see them, but gardening for me is vital to my mental health, as well as helping to enrich our menu. Very much enjoyed this video. So inspiring.
You're a good Mama. Your children will see what you're doing and will pass it on to your grands and/or great grands. My G. Grandmother (in the South) had her own garden. Her daughter, my Mimi, was a free spirit and it didn't "take" due to her love for apartment living but *my* Mom learned and attempted it for a while until she discovered corporate life was more her speed. Now here I am and I love a home and getting my hands in the dirt. My memories of my my G. Grandmother and us kids helping her to shell beans and picking fresh fruit from the trees, eating the food we picked remain in my memory. You're right, too, of course; regarding the mental health & enriching our menu. Blessings on your journey.
I used to dumpster dive at one local nursery for cast off plants and pots and then take those pots to another local nursery that gave store credit for turned-in pots...free plants...yeah🤗
Brilliant!
Me too. Grocery stores are an excellent resource as well!
My garden is 2yrs in to becoming a permaculture food forest, all thanks to the inspiration from your videos.
Mine as well! About 5 years now. Such inspiration.
@@WhyteFaerie Well done its such a joy not just to see things grow but to see the improvement in soil that was once unusable.
Sorry to be ignorant but what is a permaculture garden?
@@lilymccool1 it's garden layering. Growing ground and root crops herbs and plants the make the land fertile then things like fruit bushes also vegetables and other Bush types then trees like fruit trees, nut trees. Also any trees and vegetation the benefits wildlife. It has many different ways.
@@rainrowan4939
How wonderful 💖
I just came across this page just today...
Boy am I ever greatful, God knows exactly what we need... Even if we don't!
My family has been having a rough time these days... Medical issues besides the world as it is right now.
I can't wait to dive into it and get to know some of you guys.
I'm loving all your messages so far...
Yyyyyyyyyyyaaaaaa ❣️🥀🌺🌸🌻🌼🌹🍄🌿🍂
Yes I can be silly for a 63yr old..
LoL
Always an inspiration. I kept my first grandsons black gum boots, when he was 5, he is now 18, and although they are a bit dry rotted, as at the toe part, I have planted sedum in them at the top and toe, they are at a spot that I go out each day through and am reminded of him. In Joy
I love this so much I can’t even tell you! I will think of this often. 🌱🌱🌱
As my Grandmother would say: necessity is the mother of invention. You are a shining example of what is possible on little more than love and goodwill. I just love watching and listening to you Colette. Love and blessings to you and dear Jack 💓xx
Love that!
Great ideas! It's rumored that children's author Beatrix Potter started her beautiful garden from cuttings, most taken from others' gardens and foraging. I got many of my woodland plants and flowers from sites that were planned to be cleared for building homes too! I saved them (and many critters like frogs and turtles, etc) from being destroyed and got free garden plants at the same time
I "saved" a bank of Oak Leaf Hydrangeas from a construction site at the end of our road. What started as half a dozen 25 years ago has turned into dozens and dozens spread across our garden and shared with family and friends...free.
We also dug hundreds of daffodils bulbs from the site of an old trailer court that was being turned commercial. I had driven by there for years enjoying the nodding heads of the daffodils every spring. Now they nod their heads in my garden...and my son's, gardens, neighbors, friends, the postman. We shared them widely. All free for the asking.
What a wonderful thing you actually did!
Oh how I would love to see your garden ☺️
My first gardening book, bought when I was a young teen, was “Making Things Grow”, by Thalassa Cruso. Whenever I hear someone use the phrase “potting on”, it makes me smile and think of her and that time in my life. I’m old now, still “potting on”, and appreciate the economic tips. It’s especially nice to not only keep things from going into a landfill, but to actually use them to bring forth life. Thank you!
I love seeing videos like this where a person, like yourself, uses their imagination and doing so for free. Such great encouragement for us all.
I live in a home owners association, my husband and I have been complaining about our front yard for two years now. We finally decided to purchase & plant our own plants in the front yard. We chose similar plants to what we see throughout the neighborhood, took pictures of the plants, flowers, trees we purchased and emailed them to the HOA to which we received no response for 2 months. We finally went ahead and redid our front yard and I must say it looks great! Now the HOA is threatening to fine us if we don’t remove the hundreds of dollars worth of plants we planted in our own front yard.
Out of spite, I went around the neighborhood with native, endangered plant species seeds and I’ve been spreading them all around the neighborhood. It will be illegal for the HOA to remove the endangered, native plants. Wink. Wink. Don’t tell anyone it was me spreading those seeds like a nutty, seed fairy on my nightly dog walk.
Forgive my rambling. I’m just so irritated. Your garden is lovely
You have shown how easy it really is for you to create a peaceful and rustic garden with natural and salvaged materials.
You are very inventive. I love sharing my plants. Growing things from cuttings. It’s an art being frugal and very rewarding.
So true!
I LOVE this. Not only do you forage, you are building community as well. I think we are too isolated...(at least here in the U.S.). I miss a sense of community and I'm living where I grew up. It's not that I don't know anyone....but there is so little ability to connect with others.....thank you, thank you for sharing what you do. Love your videos.
A community garden project would be perfect for meeting like-minded people...
@@bealtainecottage Oh thank you for the great idea. Don't know why it never occurred to me to start one...I will definitely give it a go!
@@bealtainecottage That would be wonderful ...no neighbours using chemicals keeps the water clean .
The land could be revived , the garden of Eden grow...
What a dream this is..
You are a woman after my own heart !!
I love your garden and your thrifty ideas ....far more satisfying to make something out of waste !
Love your frugal gardening tips & tricks! I made two beautiful planters out of tires and disguised them with stones. We also have an old tractor tire my husband was going to PAY to get rid of! I said not so fast! I feel another planter coming on! Next I want to try my hand at building an arbor from tree limbs. Thanks for the brilliant ideas Colette!
This is so inspirational! Like our grandmothers garden. She put plants and seeds in everything.
Love your garden, its a really magical spot. The arches are awesome for free, much nicer than anything you could buy and who doesn't want a mini stonehenge in the back yard.
It always amazes me what you can pick up just by speaking to people. I've swapped cuttings with friends and neighbours many times and I ask for the flower buckets in the supermarket as they don't reuse them. My local tyre centre will happily give them away as they pay to recycle. It always makes me feel a bit smug 😂
Now this is my kind of gardening
You are such a meditation for me. I love your videos and your garden and your energy. Thank you for everything you do. ♥️
You are so welcome
I love the arch you made of sticks and the wattle fence. There is a lot of downed wood here due to storms. In the US we call items made of sticks Adirondack style because people who live in the Adirondack mountains traditionally made and probably still make all kinds of things out of sticks from picture frames to some pretty awesome chairs and other pieces of furniture. Very good ideas!
Collette I absolutely adored this video and will definitely be watching it again. I'm a new gardener at 48 years old and have already made so many mistakes by planting things back to front in my small border this year haha. I'll move things at the end of the year. I have no trees, no bushes and no shade here in the Midlands. I'd love a tiny version of your garden and have loved the free frugal ways you have done it. I'll take notes from your video and thank you for sharing. I'd love more frugal videos like this as I have hardly any spare money now. This video was amazing! Xxx
I'm the Queen of free gardening. In Australia limited funds & keen to recycle & upcycle. Great info & great tips. Thankyou
You're my favourite gardener Colette! I love your intuitive style of gardening. I broke off 4 bits of plant material at the base of my elder tree, potted them up and they are all thriving. I am so excited to think of growing my own elder trees from those 'free' cuttings! I really enjoyed this video. x
A lovely garden reflecting concepts and values that quite literally sustain us.
Warmest regards
Jennie
I think too often we get hung up on the idea that a garden needs to be all tidy and proper when really, the most relaxing gardens are like yours Colette, natural abundance, created frugally with an honest intent to honer the earth. Thank you for your beautiful soothing videos. We are still far from planting time here in CT but it takes me away from the worries of the world to see your beautiful gardens and hear about your life. Thank you for sharing with us. You are such an inspiration to those of us striving to create a situation much like yours.
I wish more people gardened like this ❣️ I've always saved and recycled old and broken things, sometimes they'll sit in my shed for a few years and then I find a use for them. Before I retired I unfortunately let my big garden go wild, due to lots of overtime work hours. So last year I removed elm trees that had taken root, moved Rose of Sharon and lilac shoots to other parts of my yard. My son wasn't convinced plants could be saved, he just wanted to tear them out and start again. Now I'm in the 2nd year of a many year project and I can point to plants I planted 24 years ago and they are flourishing. Free can come from your own neglect. Blessings.
It was a great pleasure watching this video, again, and seeing Jack was an enormous feeling that somehow my Ziggy and Jack managed to get together in their journey. Blessing to you all. (They crossed the bridge almost the same time, I still miss them greatly.)
My sister went through a phase of putting tins of ‘posh’ gardening string in with my Christmas presents, bless her, so I have enough to last for years!
What a gem of a video! Your style of gardening is exactly how I'd like to create gardens. I really appreciate you and your beautiful cottage :)
I love this video! Our great grandmothers were sharing starts before we even had garden centers here in the US. I like the 3 legged chair. Most people tend to throw things out when they are no longer perfect. Many of those things can be artfully repurposed as you have done. I have a lovely old stone jug with a hole in the back. I just put the broken side against a wall and it makes a pretty accent for my flower bed. I have become very interested in the bottomless pots you featured in several videos and hope to try those. Our library used to have a plant exchange each spring before COVID. I hope that will return some time. Blessings to you and Jack. 💚
Have you considered growing hen-and-chicis in that jug? I used to have several damaged pots and I'd grow those in them, they were so freaking cute lol.
@@JariDawnchildThank you, that is a good idea! I have one broken pot I use with the bad side down and the plants spilling out. I think it looks good.
My husband has learned to ask me before he discards "broken" objects. If it is a vessel into which I can put a drain hole it can become a planter. Additionally, I am always needing to stake something in my garden. An old metal bookshelf was dismantled and put to use supporting plants around the garden.
Lizards, toads, and other small creatures appreciate these little respites and hiding places. I’m actually happy to have a half broken pot or pitcher.
I love that you’re surrounded with shrubs and trees and everything looks so green and natural. I live in a older neighborhood. While we have a couple of matured large oak trees, sadly we can still see neighbors’ houses behind our house. We just bought our new home and my plan is to plant some fruit trees and flowering shrubs to block some view from my neighbors back porch 🤣 to create that feeling that I’m surrounded with Mother Nature.
Thank you so much for sharing all of this today and over the years. I've been taking inspiration from you and using it as I rework the land around my Mother's house. I think she thought I was a bit crazy at first..."what are you doing with those logs....those rocks...those branches...?" etc. Now she knows and sees that these things that were just laying about or dug up can be used to make something new and beautiful.
Wonderful!
My favorite thing...the blue bench with owls on each end...love this.
Colette you’re an amazing beautiful person! I could listen to you talk all day!!! Your videos are sooo calming to me and I really love how Jack just interacts with you in the garden. He’s such a wonderful companion! I could sit in your garden all day and be blessed with the calmness and hearing the birds! Really just enjoying God’s creations! You live in a paradise!!! Ty sooo much for sharing! Blessing to you
Very creative, and more importantly - beautiful! Love the cottage garden and antique/found items. So unique and lovely
More wonderful inspiration from you Colette. My home made window boxes are doing their job 😁 made from an old dresser top, inspired by you. I made a propagator from old wood and some corrugated sheet I had laying around, after seeing yours with the old window on top and my cut and come again are so happy x I am enjoying every minute as you do. Thank you so much for your videos x Full Moon blessings to you and Jack x
It's wonderful to read that ideas I share are used and appreciated, as this video took me over 12 hours to upload...oh, the dedication sometimes!
Your such a kind soul Colette, watching you walk about in and out of all those living plants and trees has to be the most relaxing moments of my day. I love seeing things like old water buckets and wheel barrows etc used to plant things in such as heather etc. You are living your dream and the dream of many others. Blessing always to you Jack and your family.💞xo
This is my favorite tour of your garden Colette!! I also love using foraged natural elements in my garden! Thank you for sharing!!
I love the wild, natural look of your garden. Makes me want to visit Ireland from where my ancestors came.
It just amazes me the beauty in your gardens and the things you have used to build and decorate it with!! If I used those materials, my place would look like a complete dump, you do it and it all looks like a work of art!!! I’m so envious!! Love it!
SO pleased you did this video, Colette, because this is exactly how I garden too - close to my heart! - and so rewarding ♥♥
Such a lovely character garden and so unique, brilliant use of items that would otherwise be left in a landfill.
Loved this I've just started growing on plants it's so satisfying and fun to share plants .
The year and a half have been so crazy for me and I didn't watch much YT. Lately, I've been trying to catch up with my favorite TH-camrs and I am finally back to your channel today and oh, how I've missed it! I cannot believe how much work you've done at Bealtaine Cottage and how much it has grown! It's so different compared to the last time I saw any of your videos. I'm so happy to be back here at one of my favorite happy places. Blessings to you! :)
Colette, if I used tyres, tin cans, old chairs, copper bowls etc in my own garden, it would look like Steptoe's yard 🤣...you, my lovely friend, have what is called 'the knack'...or, 'the eye' for creating total beauty out of whatever you lay your hands on!!🤗 Even the way you 'position' your garden statues and ornaments is beautiful...given the exact same ones you have, ask me to place them around my own garden, it would look like I was getting ready for a garden sale🤭 I don't know how you do it, but I sure am glad you do!! Blessings.
It may sound a bit nutty, but I ask "them" where they want to go and where they would be happiest ...find it works with Plants , and even things I find at Op shops ... will quiet my Mind and wander about till I can feel happy or Joy ..of course bit hard to do with anything heavy hahaha ..and You can always move them somewhere else later xx
Absolutely wonderful! Lost for words. Absolutely...!!! The use of wood; that bench; those tyres....!!! Hedges...Amazing fairytale garden.
Lovely.... absulutely some gardens are overgrown and need emptying for orther plants to thrive. More people need to know just how easy it can be. Nature will always fight to keep on living.
The benefits of your inspiration on my gardens here have been impeccable this spring. The permaculture truly looks like it’s starting to take affect this year, making barren spots look more lively and disrupted soils more complete. Love to see the spring time magic of Bealtaine Cottage, thanks bunches for the content! These longer videos are my favorites! ☮️🌍
Thank you so much for your amazing videos
Thank you so much!
Wonderful! Thank you for all the wonderful and practical suggestions. They are most appreciated. Years ago when I was an unemployed single mother, I used to forage for plants when I was out and about walking. I thought, jokingly, I should start a blog called The Welfare Gardener. 😂
What a great idea 💡.
Here in my state of NC we have a service called Chip Drop. You go online, and request some chips. A tree removal company in your area drives by with their wood chips, and delivers them for free! 12 cubic square feet of FREE chips for your garden! I placed my request so I can use them as walkways for my yard and gardens.
That sounds just perfect...love it!
The only caveat I would add for Chip Drop is that - if you have Ash trees - its possible that the Emerald Ash Borer is in the chips. My plan is to go to the dump and pick up some of the mountain of chips - bag them up for a long time and the use them in the garden. They should heat up in the bag if left in the sun...
I’m in northern Minnesota and we have chip drop also, although this is the second summer I’ve signed up and still no chips :(
@@rnupnorthbrrrsm6123 when I lived in northern Minnesota a local tree service was elated to drop truckloads of wood chips at our place. We had a wood chip mountain! You may have better fortune contacting tree services directly. Is it spring there yet?
In nc too
I absolutely love your garden! I am inspired! Thank you for taking the time and trouble to share!❤️
You are so welcome!
Such a joy for me to see your gardens grow and change through the years. When I haven't been able to watch your videos for a while and then I catch one like this and I get a proper chuckle when I realize that I know that that path will soon lead to the pond or a fairy ring. That's when I I realize that I know this wonderful woman all the way over across the pond in Ireland a truly warm and comforting feeling that pushes away the chaos in the world. Thank you so much call out for sharing your light and love of Mother Nature. Blessings
Hi Colette, love the way that you're so resourceful! Blessings to you and Jack.
Thank you so much!
I absolutely love this video collette. I have watched it again and again and again over the years. I always forget about free and I've spent (and wasted) so much money whilst being impatient. Frugal gardening is something many of us want to do now, especially with the cost of living. I watch in hope that you may make a similar video one day. I adore how you have made such a frugal garden outside your front and back door. I get excited each year to slowly watch it burst into colour. You have done an amazing job with everything and you continue to teach us all how to look after mother earth. Many of us have taken it for granted over the years. You are a credit to the planet you beautiful lady x
Just want to let you know....i recived my bumperstickers resantly. I am so pleased. They make me smile every time i approach my car. Thank you and fore the blessing as well
I'm so glad!
Well done Collette you are an inspiration and a wonderful ambassador for permaculture. Its something I've just discovered thru your channel. You deserve our support. Blessings from Tipperary
I love the title of this video Colette. People love to trade plants or give them away, this comprises much of my garden. I have found lots great stuff on the side of the road that others no longer want. Garden centres here often let you take their "ugly," half dead plants off their hands too. You have created a beautiful garden Colette and I just love that you stick the cuttings straight into the earth, as I always thought you had to root them first :) Also love the way you are starting the videos with your lovely welcome at the door. May Blessings to you and Jack. xo
Thank you Lois XXX
I just found your channel & I'm so glad I did. I'll be playing catch up on all your videos every time I can squeek out a few minutes! I love the sound of your voice... so calming. I started out with this video on starting a garden on a budget because we're just finishing up building a new house after a total loss house fire. It seems important to me to get the yard & veggie gardens up and going asap & to get everything looking like it's been there a while. Mental medicine, you know? So thank you for this video & I'll be back to take in more & let your voice just take my daily stresses away, even just for a bit. And Jack.... give him a good scratch & a cookie for me... he's so handsome & seems like the perfect garden buddy.
God bless!
It’s so fun watching everything get greener and more lush with every video! 😍
Just found this video. What a wonderful, magical garden filled with charm and character, grown with love xx your doggy is also a sweetheart ❤
Absolutely lovely. What a beautiful and peaceful garden you have.
Hi Colette. Your garden is beautiful and all the work you have done is so inspiring.🌸🌺🌻🌼🌹🥀💐
Thank you so much 😊
I'm an opportunist like you! I love to get plants for free, but also, I enjoy giving away seeds I've collected or spare plants either grown from seeds or cuttings.
Love the mirror in between the tree branches! The bird songs are delightful..everyone must be so happy there with you! Enchanting world you have created. You are a true Earth Goddess. Precious puppy dog,too.🙂🌱🦋
Instead of string you can use brambles. Cut them off and scrape the thorns off with a knife blade and you have a really strong string. It's very supple if you use it straight away after cutting it, when it's still got all the sap in it.
Your talking my language ,honey....I just put in a flower bed and used old boards I found laying around.....& Old bricks ...look around my house re- use junk...thank u so much...1st x seeing u ..I love free...💗..lol I work in a gro store these Men who run it..throw away such cool stuff.....oh your rose!! Beautiful & n tired ...you have a lovely garden..love accent ..so pretty hello fr West Texas 🇨🇱🌵USA...very very dusty dry here..but lovely nites
Kudos 🌟 You are "Queen of the Green".
Thank you.
Blessings and happiness,
Kathy
Wow, thank you!
Mmmm...I love Bealtaine Cottage's rustic gardens! I too am a frugal gardener...who lives in a small city in Central California. Rescuing others' failing plants, taking cuttings and raiding various compost heaps have added great variety to my Mediterranean-styled plot. And estate and yard sales (giveaways) have netted some cheery ornaments too.
Colette- there is magic throughout your acreage . The materials available for planters are endless! Their limit is your imagination '-) Beautifully done! I was happiest in the days when I was broke and resourceful...
So true!
Your garden is a haven for fairies and woodland folk!!! I LOVE it!!! I could sit there for hours in quiet. Fantastic place you have and you have done a wonderful job building this utopia!!!💚🙏🧚🌱🌿🍀
I have a comparatively small garden and have tried to create most of it for free, stolen cuttings, driftwood, stone and raiding skips etc., but what I don’t have is your wonderful foresight when trying to plan different areas, planting in harmony. I also feel sorry for‘weeds’ and then don’t know where to start! However the bees and many wonderful insects seem to like me so that is lovely. I probably will carry on sitting in my little wilderness until my health enables me to put some of your beautiful, inspirational ideas into my own patch! Thank you, and Jack for your wonderful films and chats. I could listen all day, bless you.
It's a pleasure to see your home and garden. Last week the pastor from our neighborhood church needed some plants and she knew that I would have some. She had bought from the garden center but it was too expensive to do the garden the way she wanted. I loaded her up with plants that I had made from my garden and my only request was to bring my pots back because that's how you get more plants from me! It's fun to give plants away. ❤️
Would LOVE a part 2, 3, 4... I live in a tiny apartment with no garden. What a wonderful video. Love Jack. Thank you so much. 💓
I love watching your cottage garden blossoming and so creative in your designs in the way you balance nature and practial also harmonising in a spiritual and earthly way. I do house clearances also charity clearances and keen recycler hunter. I built my home and the acreage that my home sits on out of what I found and cleared also resale the rest that is of good resale condition. Just been given 20 more tyres so sitting in wondering what I can do with. out of the last 30 tyres I had I made pet beds/seat and planters which are now all sold. Anymore ideas be gratefully received.
A circle of wood and a cushion on top one would make a good chair, or leave off the cushion for a table. Another one could be used to loop your garden hose inside when not in use. I used one on my mom's porch to store my little gardening kit until the landlord complained it was "unsightly".
Hello my dear lady😊.You're such an intelligent person when it comes to gardening, planting and harvesting, it's incredible I love it!! thank you for sharing this video it helped me to learn how to save money and time how grateful I am for that😊.Love and peace to you Sweet Colette and adorable Jack from Texas USA😍🙏🙌
Your garden is just gorgeous... and so is your dog. I also look after a lovely English lady's garden in Tasmania and can relate to your experience regarding collecting cuttings. Sharing garden love over a cup of herbal tea is the best. Bless you!
Hello Colette from the USA....so love the castle window. I was thrilled to see it. Such good ideas. I myself have used some of these free ideas..you have inspired me even more. Blessings to you and Jack💖💖
@Susanna Utterback; you can pink up those castle window frames at any thrift store and Goodwill. Very inexpensive-
Here in Australia we have verge collections for garden waste and unwanted items like plant pots and other furniture etc. That is where I get pots and other containers for gardening. As well as furniture for repurposing.
I love your space so much and your creative ideas!
Good morning i realy love honey suckle the smell is so lovely .and the ferns i love greenery .your gorgeous dog happyily wagging his tail whilst walking around the gsrden was a joy to see thank you x
I absolutely love this,i remember my grandma planting all sorts of flowers in her garden,vegetables i would always sit and watch her there is nothing more satisfying then being out in nature,your garden is beautiful i admire what you have done and appreciate you sharing may God bless you & Jack🌹💕
I hope all the young gardeners see this video, much to be learned and inspired by, thank you for sharing your lovely garden, best wishes from Rice Lake, Wisconsin, USA.
I’m not sure I’d use tires. But I love using old pots, logs, left over wood cuttings, bricks, etc. Foraging and recycling in this disposable consumer society….. is HIGHLY underrated if not downright disparaged ! Ignore the people who say you’re a “ garbage “ collector, they’re fools.As long as you don’t create a junk yard and make use of everything you collect, you are just being frugal , environmentally friendly and sensible.
Thank you for a beautiful and informative video. In the US, we celebrate Memorial Day next week, and one of my family traditions is planting flowers on the family graves. My aunt and I have been doing this for the last ten years or so, and every year, we rummage through the trash bins for the plastic containers that people throw away after planting the flowers. I haven't bought a container in decades.
Lovely video. Some great ideas with a little imagination...and foraging! :-)
Your voice is so soothing. Thank you so much for the tips, dear.
Hello , I've been wanting to tell you thank you for sharing your knowledge of gardening and your very helpful, creative tips for planters. What a beautiful place to live that you have created, your artistry shows every place imaginable.
I don't think I've ever finished watching any of your videos. I maybe last 3 minutes and then zonk out and fall asleep cause of your soothing voice.
She really should have her own ASMR channel!
Your garden is absolutely beautiful. The birds singing in the background are enchanting. I live in America in the state of Missouri. I own 7 acres and it’s virtually a blank canvas. It used to be a hayfield with a few spatterings of trees. I live in a camper and in the process of building a small little home of maybe 750 Square feet. What I see in your garden is what I would like to have here. So far I’ve planted 38 trees but by the looks of things I might need a plant 38 more to even come close to what you have. I believe the canopy is important aspect of the loveliness of things on the ground. I have had to scrounge around for things to make do just like you have it’s a work in progress and maybe always will be. But I’m having so much fun doing it.
Hi Colette from New Zealand. Blessings to both you and Jack.
Thank you. This video was thoroughly enjoyable.
Great ideas, thank you Colette.
Love your garden and your wonderful friend, Jack! My late husband, Jack, adored border collies so I am so pleased to see your Jack walking thru this celtic garden with you.
Thank you!
I am in the process of starting a garden at my new location in Elliot Lake, ON, Canada where I have been given plants by a neighbour. Lots of free items were left by previous owners as well. Also seeing plants, such as lilies, discarded by other gardeners along roadsides and in the public woodland behind my house that I can transplant to my yard. Found a lovely white Columbine growing in an area where the town works dept dumps piles of snow collected off city streets. Amazing how many plants are growing wild after escaping town gardens.
Blessings to Jack and you.
I love walking down alleys and forests and finding the most lovely plants. People forget how necessary and valuable old tree stumps are and what they add to the ecological health of your garden…
I do love how your dog is right in there with you as your constant companion…
PS…where I live, a lot of beautiful old homes are being torn down to build new ones for people who don’t appreciate their beautiful old qualities …or the history of the community….sadly, their mature gardens are just torn up and ripped apart to make way for a bigger house and minimalist “ garden” . So I try to save a lot of these beautiful plants and bits from these old homes and gardens, , so they can live on and be appreciated in my gardens… NEW is often NOT better. I don’t understand why we have lost the appreciation for the artistry, handwork and handiwork of those who came before us…Why people prefer cheap China made to well made , hand made original works of art.
You are some lady!! Fabulous !! ,every wonderful blessing going your way.Love and light x
Thank you for showing your beautiful, free gardening! You have inspired me!
Colette, you made me giggle (in a good way). You are one very clever lady! Good for you! Scavenging "stuff" that is tossed: one woman's trash is another's treasure for sure! I so wish I had the younger body I used to have so I could garden again. Instead, I put my flowers into my embroideries. Thank you for all of the delightful walks in your woodland. Amazing! From empty land to your magical "forest"! 🙂
I love all the cleaver things you have done in the garden. Just marvelous.