You're so right when you say towards the end that nothing compares to a front yard cottage garden in place of a lawn! Yours is spectacular, and I love all your ducks, geese, etc -- they're sweethearts!
So peaceful, so calming for me to watch your videos. I enjoy it all: the cottage gardens, the interior of the “old house”, the animals and their babies. Your voice is calming to me in this hard world.
Hello Grace, Tis a hard world indeed. Nothing like a garden talk, or a cup of hot tea in an old house to calm the nerves. Thank you for watching and enjoying the videos.
Thanks! It can get a bit noisy around here in the Spring with 5 Peacocks, but I like their various calls, sometimes they honk. They are much more subdued in the winter.
I think the the grassy green lawn is what sets your garden off. It is the perfect backdrop and frame for it. Like the perfect vase. It is a beautiful shade of green and so well manicured, quietly laying in the background to hold your garden up for all to see. Keeping your garden all together, while letting it spill over the sides. Like flowers in a vase. Well. That is how it looks to me, anyway. lol
Loved to see your beautiful garden.It is good homely country garden with ducks, peacock and other wildlife.it is a garden to inspire others. Thanks for touring your beautiful garden.
Jeri Landers the Storybook Gardener wow is it? It looks like a fairy tale garden for me. Me being a gardener myself I know how much effort & passion goes to have a garden like this. Mr. Peabody is cherry on top.
I'm so happy that you are posting more inspiring videos of your gardens!!! Thank you! I love your videos and hope to some day have my gardens look as beautiful as yours. I'm working on it ! My yard is much smaller than yours so I can't have as many gardens as you have. I have planted lots of fig trees, peach, apple, and pear trees in my back and side yards. I also like the "boisterous" gardens. I have worked all of my adult life as a floral decorator and have to create "perfect" backdrops for weddings, Bar Mitzvahs, and even Presidential dinners so in my home gardens I insist on letting the plants take over and love the carefree ambiance of the country cottage garden. Anyway, thank you Jeri for sharing your lovely garden with all of us!
I have so many gardens, I would go crazy if they had to be perfect, thank goodness for the "casual" look! I do plan many of my gardens, but then nature takes over and the result it what you see. Love that you have so many fruit trees. I did plant 7 semi-dwarf fruit trees last Autumn.... so far so good!
Such a beautiful garden! I totally agree with you about the loveliness of the common plant names as opposed to the scientific names. Those country names are so much more evocative!
Love the fullness. I have dug millions of violets out of my beds over the years. They are pretty but they take over maybe I’ll move some to the back pond
Yes, they can certainly become bothersome in some gardens,. I remove all of them from the Potager. Sometimes I transplant them elsewhere, but if I'm feeling lazy, I just toss them in the compost pile.
Jeri, I Love your place, the animals, paths, gardens and the amazing sound that came from it. I appreciate you putting it together and sharing it with us. ;)
Hi Lucia, I have many failures as well, it took me years and years to finally learn to grow Lavender in my area, and only last year did I have success with Foxglove. Just keep on trying!
I once had a garden book that mentioned every plant with the scientific, hoity toity names without giving the common names at all! I would have had to do some major investigation in order to follow any of her garden plans.
Such a beautiful home and garden. You gave me a great idea! I was racking my brain wanting to install a fence, but I’m going to try using cattle panels to grow things on! 😍💖Thanks for sharing!
Beautiful country garden Jeri....if only mine looked as lovely!! Did you make your adorable fence with the animal carvings. Oh my goodness! Love, love, love!!!
I cut over 400 pickets for that fence with my jigsaw, then James put the whole thing together. It was actually his idea that I design the pickets to mimic the characters in my books.
Your garden is just delightful! I so anticipate another video later in the summer when other things are in bloom. I have started what I call a Cottage garden, but it's in my backyard. Thanks for sharing this. (I enjoyed the peacock call, too!..maybe we can see him next time?)
Thank you Elizabeth! Your backyard is a perfect place for a cottage garden... in fact, ANYPLACE is good for a cottage garden. You can see my peacocks in many of my videos, they are all hams and will often fan out their tails for the camera.
I also love violets and use as a ground cover. I don't like seeing dirt poking out so I cover all areas. I've been known to dig up violets and move into flower beds.
I like your use of the cattle panels. With your beautiful flowers, it is hardly noticeable . Please tell me again, how you have it supported. Your place is absolutely beautiful. Thanks for sharing.
The cattle panel that is used as a backdrop behind the garden is attached to the picket fences on either side. We also used long pieces of rebar to stabilize it in the center sections. The cattle panel that was used to keep the animals out of the garden, was cut in half and stuck directly into the earth.
Spiderwort is all I had growing out front when I moved into my place 2 years ago in July and it really does look horrible once it’s done blooming. It is also invasive but I looked mine up and it is native to NH. It looks pretty early on but I really did dig up so much of it! And it keeps showing up in a different spot now! My neighbor let it take oven her little garden bet completely. Oh well.
I had an abundance of spiderwort, dug it all up, transplanted it along a walkway to make a short hedge. It makes a lovely hedge, blooms for weeks at a time. After the bloom, it develops those interesting seed pods and is good for another few weeks. If it starts to turn yellow and ugly, I just prune all the way to the ground and let it grow back the next year. Sometimes, you just have to make lemonade with lemons.
Do you have any Sweet Woodruff in any of your gardens? I had some along time ago, and I loved it. I loved how it looked and I loved the fresh clean smell of it. Some say it smells like vanilla. But to me, it smelled more like fresh baled hay that had just been put in the barn. Back when I had it, I found some at a nursery. But I have not see any or even seen anyone talk about it, in years. I think it is considered an herb for some, and some consider it a ground cover for the shade garden or in shady areas that is meant to be natural landscaping. It looks especially wonderful mixed in with the hostas and ferns. Ferns, they might be my favorite of all. I love the way they look growing wild in the woods and creek banks. I love them in paintings and drawings and I love the fronds pressed and preserved and then mounted in a frame, behind glass. But Sweet Woodruff looks so magical. The shade of green, the whorls of the leaves and the little white flowers that sit on top of the, subtle, clean fragrance of the whorls of little leaves.
It is a beautiful garden. Very happy YT decided to recommend your videos to me today and I have subscribed. One request, if you don't mind, when you put the typing on the screen, is there a way to make it still? For some reason the words are moving up and down and that makes me dizzy. Love Mr. Peabody up on the roof. I grew up on a farm in the SE, but now live in the Pacific NW. Here the deer are eating all my plants and short of very expensive fencing, I have to put up ugly deer fencing to protect small areas. Very frustrating but so many people have moved here that the deer have lost a lot of habitat and are scrounging for food. Funny that they were never a problem when I lived in the country but only are an issue now in what is mostly the suburbs.
Gayla, I know what you mean about the floating text... that happened when I tried to stabilize the shaky video. I can't fix it now, but I stopped using the stabilizer. I think the only way to keep deer out of the garden is to get a large dog, our Great Pyrenees keep those lovely deer on the opposite side of the fence. You do live in a beautiful part of the country, a gardeners paradise... if it weren't for the deer!
@@JeriLandersofHopalongHollow Thank you! You are right, too, about the dog. I did have a golden who did a good job with that. Sadly, he died several years back and I dont feel like now is a good time to get another but that is something I will keep in mind. Thank you!
Lots to care for. Did you put a watering system in when you started your front yard gardens or did that come later? My front is very much like yours here on the Cumberland plateau in the country setting. Bern wanting to take sections and work color into the front. The irrigation kind of throws me since it would be me putting it in. Don't want to spend my life watering but so want the paths and gardens. Any idea where to start?
Sherron, No where on this property are there watering systems. This front yard garden is a tricky spot, it's very dry because of the large trees nearby sucking all the water with their roots. I must rely on the rain, which is pretty consistent. I rarely have to water with my hose unless I am putting in new plants that get special attention. I would advise you to go with native plants for the most part and easy-to-care- for annual and perennials that don't need constant moisture. If you watch the other videos, you will see that I am able to grow a good variety of plants without an irrigation system. Start with a small section, don't overwhelm yourself, let your garden size grow bit by bit. I started each garden as a small space that encroached on the lawn with each passing year. Now, my garden stretch all the way around the house and beyond.
We live in a great state for gardening, don't we? I forgot to link that company: K.van Bourgondeion & Sons www.dutchbulbs.com/?p=3628377&Brand&.%20van%20bourgondien%20wholesale&Brand_KVB
Lovely as always :-) We definitely are kindred spirits when it comes to gardening Jeri. My whole front yard has been turned into a country cottage garden too. For a lot of years it was a rose garden, but last summer we eliminated all the grass (it's not nearly so big as your front yard) to enlarge the garden. All the perennials I planted late last summer and fall have survived and are coming along. I wanted to ask...do you have the blue-ish grey and white violets? Around here they're called Confederate violets.
Good that your perennials are coming back, it's always a thrill to see them poking thru the ground. We still have loads of grass in surrounding areas but this Front Y. G. did relieve my husband of a lot of mowing. I don't have the bluish grey violets, they sound very pretty! Ours are med. purple and SOMETIMES I find a blue one mixed in.
Enjoyed seeing your garden, but please keep the text stationary - bouncing it around the screen causes motion sickness........ugh....feeling a little queasy......
You're so right when you say towards the end that nothing compares to a front yard cottage garden in place of a lawn! Yours is spectacular, and I love all your ducks, geese, etc -- they're sweethearts!
Lania, I'll never regret planting that first little corner that eventually became an entire front yard!
I am in 😍 💕 ❤️ 💗 with this place!!! The peacock on the roof at the end was the perfect ending!! I am jealous!!! God bless!!
So peaceful, so calming for me to watch your videos. I enjoy it all: the cottage gardens, the interior of the “old house”, the animals and their babies. Your voice is calming to me in this hard world.
Hello Grace, Tis a hard world indeed. Nothing like a garden talk, or a cup of hot tea in an old house to calm the nerves. Thank you for watching and enjoying the videos.
So beautiful happy plants! What joy this must bring with surprises popping up! Blessed and safe days!
I just love your garden and bunny fence!
So many wonderful flowers... and wonderful colors. Thank you again for sharing Jeri. I love this video and hadn't seen it. Blessings!!!
You are so welcome!
Beautiful! Cottage gardens are my favorite❤️
Just beautiful!
Wow.so beautiful and full of life.I adore a country garden and all the animals that exist there and call it home.Fantastic video.Thankyou
Nice to have you here for a visit!
Absolutely fabulous. Wow!
It's a tricky garden site with half shade, I never know when anything will bloom. Very late this year.
O my I really love your country garden .
I love all ur videos.u r my fav...
Fantastic gardens! And I love the peafowl running around their call is about the coolest thing.
Thanks! It can get a bit noisy around here in the Spring with 5 Peacocks, but I like their various calls, sometimes they honk. They are much more subdued in the winter.
I think the the grassy green lawn is what sets your garden off. It is the perfect backdrop and frame for it. Like the perfect vase. It is a beautiful shade of green and so well manicured, quietly laying in the background to hold your garden up for all to see. Keeping your garden all together, while letting it spill over the sides. Like flowers in a vase. Well. That is how it looks to me, anyway. lol
You are right about that, I think a garden really needs a stretch of lawn to set it off perfectly.
'happy accidents' are what make a cottage garden even more special..greetings again from tucson. GORGEOUS..!
I LOVE your country garden. It's giving me so many ideas for my own. Thank you so much dor sharing!
Have fun planning your country garden!
I love hearing the peacocks. Wow up on the roof! Your gardens are lovely and inspiring - I get so many ideas from you! Thanks!
They are REALLY noisy at this time of year, mating season.
Your garden looks great love the fence.
4oo pickets, I cut them with my little jigsaw..
Absolutely beautiful.
I have to mention i just viewed tessies video of the books you sent her. How sweet, how kind! Sincerely,...
She's a sweet woman.
@@JeriLandersofHopalongHollow 😊
Loved to see your beautiful garden.It is good homely country garden with ducks, peacock and other wildlife.it is a garden to inspire others.
Thanks for touring your beautiful garden.
Thank you for coming along. My birds love the gardens and really add a lot to the happiness of the place. Especially the peacocks!
Totally blown away...one of the most beautiful garden ever 💓
I really appreciate that! Of course being February now, it looks nothing like this, for at least a few months.
Jeri Landers the Storybook Gardener wow is it? It looks like a fairy tale garden for me. Me being a gardener myself I know how much effort & passion goes to have a garden like this. Mr. Peabody is cherry on top.
@@SimpleLivingwithReks yes, Mr Peabody always adds to the atmosphere!
Love your garden! Took me a few minutes to figure out the peacocks cry. So lovely thank you for sharing.
Just now found your comment, 3 months later. Once you hear a peacocks sound, you'll never forget it!
I'm so happy that you are posting more inspiring videos of your gardens!!! Thank you! I love your videos and hope to some day have my gardens look as beautiful as yours. I'm working on it ! My yard is much smaller than yours so I can't have as many gardens as you have. I have planted lots of fig trees, peach, apple, and pear trees in my back and side yards. I also like the "boisterous" gardens. I have worked all of my adult life as a floral decorator and have to create "perfect" backdrops for weddings, Bar Mitzvahs, and even Presidential dinners so in my home gardens I insist on letting the plants take over and love the carefree ambiance of the country cottage garden. Anyway, thank you Jeri for sharing your lovely garden with all of us!
I have so many gardens, I would go crazy if they had to be perfect, thank goodness for the "casual" look! I do plan many of my gardens, but then nature takes over and the result it what you see. Love that you have so many fruit trees. I did plant 7 semi-dwarf fruit trees last Autumn.... so far so good!
This is such a beautiful garden, it looks like a fairytale garden and I love the ducks :o)
Well, it is a storybook garden, the books I illustrate are my inspiration; even the ducks are in my books!
Love the little critters fence.
I just love it !!!!
Pamela, I've introduced a lot of new plants into this garden, so I'll do an update on the Higglety Pigglety garden in June.
Love your wild and crazy garden it's beautiful.
Crazy and lively! It's a fun and easy garden style
Such a beautiful garden! I totally agree with you about the loveliness of the common plant names as opposed to the scientific names. Those country names are so much more evocative!
So lovely! 😍
your plantings are precious... you are such an inspiration!!
Glad I can inspire someone as creative as you Gwen!
Just beautiful! Thank you for sharing!
Thank you for this video - such a relief to watch on a cold winter day.
Oh I agree! It's cold here, nothing is growing, everything's brown.... I 'm refreshed to see what my garden is going to look like in a few months.
Love the fullness. I have dug millions of violets out of my beds over the years. They are pretty but they take over maybe I’ll move some to the back pond
Yes, they can certainly become bothersome in some gardens,. I remove all of them from the Potager. Sometimes I transplant them elsewhere, but if I'm feeling lazy, I just toss them in the compost pile.
I adore your gardens. They inspire me to keep working on mine. All gardens tell a story and that story changes and grows with the seasons. Beautiful!
The gardens change so dramatically from month to month, . I'll film this one again in June, and it will be completely different looking.
Jeri Landers I am looking forward to seeing it!
Jeri, I Love your place, the animals, paths, gardens and the amazing sound that came from it. I appreciate you putting it together and sharing it with us. ;)
Thank you so much, it's a pleasure to share with fellow garden lovers!
Gorgeous and charming!
I love seeing your garden flourish, Jeri! It's too hot for gardening today, so I'm enjoying your garden, instead.
It's getting pretty hot here as well. I do my bulk of garden prep from March- June and then I just sit back and watch it grow!
Gorgeous!
I have wild violets and love them. I think the plant itself is pretty.
I love the heart shaped leaves
Just glorious! I envy you, wish I had as much success.
Hi Lucia, I have many failures as well, it took me years and years to finally learn to grow Lavender in my area, and only last year did I have success with Foxglove. Just keep on trying!
Just found your channel, it is really great i loved your garden,need to watch past videos.
Thank you for watching, hope you'll come back!
If there were more properties like this ! I wish I could jus go there for an hour and take it all in:) lol 😍 love it!
If you lived nearby, you'd be welcome to visit our crazy gardens!
Love your property. Could spend hours enjoying its beauty. Just subscribed. Tfs cheers
We're fortunate to live in such a green, lush part of the country, thanks!
Beautiful! And I agree with the common name! Much more interesting and comforting!
I once had a garden book that mentioned every plant with the scientific, hoity toity names without giving the common names at all! I would have had to do some major investigation in order to follow any of her garden plans.
Beautiful!
love its design
Such a beautiful home and garden. You gave me a great idea! I was racking my brain wanting to install a fence, but I’m going to try using cattle panels to grow things on! 😍💖Thanks for sharing!
They work out really good!
beautiful
Thank you for coming along...
Your gardens are beautiful!
Beautiful country garden Jeri....if only mine looked as lovely!! Did you make your adorable fence with the animal carvings. Oh my goodness! Love, love, love!!!
I cut over 400 pickets for that fence with my jigsaw, then James put the whole thing together. It was actually his idea that I design the pickets to mimic the characters in my books.
Your garden is just delightful! I so anticipate another video later in the summer when other things are in bloom. I have started what I call a Cottage garden, but it's in my backyard. Thanks for sharing this. (I enjoyed the peacock call, too!..maybe we can see him next time?)
Thank you Elizabeth! Your backyard is a perfect place for a cottage garden... in fact, ANYPLACE is good for a cottage garden. You can see my peacocks in many of my videos, they are all hams and will often fan out their tails for the camera.
I also love violets and use as a ground cover. I don't like seeing dirt poking out so I cover all areas. I've been known to dig up violets and move into flower beds.
Mr Peabody flies a lot higher than I thought!
They fly up to the roof everyday!
I like your use of the cattle panels. With your beautiful flowers, it is hardly noticeable . Please tell me again, how you have it supported. Your place is absolutely beautiful. Thanks for sharing.
The cattle panel that is used as a backdrop behind the garden is attached to the picket fences on either side. We also used long pieces of rebar to stabilize it in the center sections. The cattle panel that was used to keep the animals out of the garden, was cut in half and stuck directly into the earth.
Jeri
It's so charming ...
Country gardens are the most charming of all gardens... I think.
Spiderwort is all I had growing out front when I moved into my place 2 years ago in July and it really does look horrible once it’s done blooming. It is also invasive but I looked mine up and it is native to NH. It looks pretty early on but I really did dig up so much of it! And it keeps showing up in a different spot now! My neighbor let it take oven her little garden bet completely. Oh well.
I had an abundance of spiderwort, dug it all up, transplanted it along a walkway to make a short hedge. It makes a lovely hedge, blooms for weeks at a time. After the bloom, it develops those interesting seed pods and is good for another few weeks. If it starts to turn yellow and ugly, I just prune all the way to the ground and let it grow back the next year. Sometimes, you just have to make lemonade with lemons.
But beautiful lawn indeed
Do you have any Sweet Woodruff in any of your gardens? I had some along time ago, and I loved it. I loved how it looked and I loved the fresh clean smell of it. Some say it smells like vanilla. But to me, it smelled more like fresh baled hay that had just been put in the barn. Back when I had it, I found some at a nursery. But I have not see any or even seen anyone talk about it, in years. I think it is considered an herb for some, and some consider it a ground cover for the shade garden or in shady areas that is meant to be natural landscaping. It looks especially wonderful mixed in with the hostas and ferns. Ferns, they might be my favorite of all. I love the way they look growing wild in the woods and creek banks. I love them in paintings and drawings and I love the fronds pressed and preserved and then mounted in a frame, behind glass. But Sweet Woodruff looks so magical. The shade of green, the whorls of the leaves and the little white flowers that sit on top of the, subtle, clean fragrance of the whorls of little leaves.
Hi Lindy, I don't have any Sweet Woodruff, but now I am intrigued. I will look for the seed on one of my favorite seed sites Everwilde Farms.
It is a beautiful garden. Very happy YT decided to recommend your videos to me today and I have subscribed. One request, if you don't mind, when you put the typing on the screen, is there a way to make it still? For some reason the words are moving up and down and that makes me dizzy. Love Mr. Peabody up on the roof. I grew up on a farm in the SE, but now live in the Pacific NW. Here the deer are eating all my plants and short of very expensive fencing, I have to put up ugly deer fencing to protect small areas. Very frustrating but so many people have moved here that the deer have lost a lot of habitat and are scrounging for food. Funny that they were never a problem when I lived in the country but only are an issue now in what is mostly the suburbs.
Gayla, I know what you mean about the floating text... that happened when I tried to stabilize the shaky video. I can't fix it now, but I stopped using the stabilizer. I think the only way to keep deer out of the garden is to get a large dog, our Great Pyrenees keep those lovely deer on the opposite side of the fence. You do live in a beautiful part of the country, a gardeners paradise... if it weren't for the deer!
@@JeriLandersofHopalongHollow Thank you! You are right, too, about the dog. I did have a golden who did a good job with that. Sadly, he died several years back and I dont feel like now is a good time to get another but that is something I will keep in mind. Thank you!
Lots to care for. Did you put a watering system in when you started your front yard gardens or did that come later? My front is very much like yours here on the Cumberland plateau in the country setting. Bern wanting to take sections and work color into the front. The irrigation kind of throws me since it would be me putting it in. Don't want to spend my life watering but so want the paths and gardens. Any idea where to start?
Sherron, No where on this property are there watering systems. This front yard garden is a tricky spot, it's very dry because of the large trees nearby sucking all the water with their roots. I must rely on the rain, which is pretty consistent. I rarely have to water with my hose unless I am putting in new plants that get special attention. I would advise you to go with native plants for the most part and easy-to-care- for annual and perennials that don't need constant moisture. If you watch the other videos, you will see that I am able to grow a good variety of plants without an irrigation system. Start with a small section, don't overwhelm yourself, let your garden size grow bit by bit. I started each garden as a small space that encroached on the lawn with each passing year. Now, my garden stretch all the way around the house and beyond.
What about replacing grass with moss. No maintenance except some weeding and blowing it out occasionally.
Beautiful! Just what I'd like to create. Where do you get your roots and rhizomes from? I live in E. Tenn also.
We live in a great state for gardening, don't we? I forgot to link that company: K.van Bourgondeion & Sons
www.dutchbulbs.com/?p=3628377&Brand&.%20van%20bourgondien%20wholesale&Brand_KVB
Thanks Jeri, I'll check them out
In south Ga. , the spiderwart are very invasive.
They can be, but I like plants that are prolific, as long as they aren't weeds.
Lovely as always :-) We definitely are kindred spirits when it comes to gardening Jeri. My whole front yard has been turned into a country cottage garden too. For a lot of years it was a rose garden, but last summer we eliminated all the grass (it's not nearly so big as your front yard) to enlarge the garden. All the perennials I planted late last summer and fall have survived and are coming along. I wanted to ask...do you have the blue-ish grey and white violets? Around here they're called Confederate violets.
Good that your perennials are coming back, it's always a thrill to see them poking thru the ground. We still have loads of grass in surrounding areas but this Front Y. G. did relieve my husband of a lot of mowing. I don't have the bluish grey violets, they sound very pretty! Ours are med. purple and SOMETIMES I find a blue one mixed in.
I put a couple of pics of the blue/grey violets on my FB page. I can save you some seeds if you like.
They are very pretty but I'm not sure I want to introduce any more Violets into the gardens. Thank you for the offer!
pretty-do you grow box woods?
I have a boxwood hedge in a small garden near my shop... made from 6 plants, now grown together and sheared into a "wall"
I love your fence cutouts of rabbits and tops cut out. Did you or your husband do that or did u buy that way?
I cut it out, He put the fence together
@@JeriLandersofHopalongHollow There's nothing u can't do. Love it.
Do you have deer? That is what gets into my garden.
We are lucky they don't cross the fences because of our dogs.
How lomgafter laying down cardboard and compost can u plant?
Right away!
@@JeriLandersofHopalongHollow thanks so much
Ever thought of just not having the birds and then the problem goes away
Not for a second.
Do you know where I can get a Bee Skep?
You are sure to find one on Ebay... or Amazon. They don't last long if kept out in the open, I'd use it for decor or place it in a Bee Bole.
Enjoyed seeing your garden, but please keep the text stationary - bouncing it around the screen causes motion sickness........ugh....feeling a little queasy......
That program was on youtube's stabilizer, I no longer use it. It stabilizes the video causing the words to bounce around all over the place.
It is a peacock what I heard the sound.?
Yes we have 4 peacocks!
Wow really beautiful peacocks , thank you
Gorgeous!
Beautiful!