The most exciting part of owning a garden, in my opinion, is this stage - planning the future and all the possibilities. Glad I found this channel, having been a fan of Joe Swift for 20 years, and looking forward to seeing the progress.
Hi Joe, love the garden and the channel. I think this would be a perfect project to show on gardeners world. I feel the show has lost something recently, and i think your garden would be great for beginner gardeners to show what can be done with a mature garden. Something many new homeowners are faced with. Good luck with the project.
I love the way that you're thinking about the landscape, moving through it, the vistas, the woodland, and changing the perspective from the house to a flowing horizontal plan - thank you for sharing your insights, brilliant!
Hi Joe, I’m a new subscriber and a new Garden Designer. I love your lateral flow drifts design for your garden. It’s nice to see a move away from traditional straight lines and rectangles, that are not sympathetic to the surrounding curving countryside. I also look forward to seeing the organic topiary / cloud pruning near the house. It will give amazing structure and interest during the winter, even before you add other winter interest planting. Please share more design ideas to help us learn 👍🏻 thanks.
Joe thank you so much for your planning video!! It is wonderful to see/ watch a garden designer work. Best wishes on the new garden from Nova Scotia Canada
Hi Joe, thanks for sharing your gardening journey with us. I'm just working my way through your videos to get up to date. It's going to keep me going during winter here in New Zealand! One question from me, are you planning on keeping the veg patch? Thanks again!
Happy New Year! I stumbeled over Your videos during Christmas. Very nice and exiting! Congrats with Your new garden. What a challenge to take on a old, slightly overgrown and quite large garden. Looking forward to follow! Best wishes from Norway.
I've just binge watched your new channel and cant wait to see how things develop. I have also shared the channel with two friends who also enjoy gardening 👍
Happy new garden and Happy New Year Mr Swift. Thoroughly enjoying your channel and look forward to following along on this masterclass in garden design and development. Greetings from Perth, Western Australia.
Such fun to see how you approach the process! Thinking about horizontal lines on a property versus working in a straight lines toward the back is a new, yet exciting, concept to process..can alllmost conceptualize it, will take a few re-watches to 'click' for me! 😅
That was a great how to kind of run through garden design 101 kind of thing! Thanks very much, some really great insights in hit to form the new back bone of an existing garden 👍
How many times will the plan change I wonder? I planned my garden on paper but then it just became organically designed. As you know the more time you spend in a garden the more things change. I envy you and your new garden. I started my garden 15 years ago in France and it’s still evolving. Thank you for your wonderful videos. Good luck 👍🥂
Interesting stuff and you’re fortunate that you’ve got good bones to work with already. I think your gravel idea is good. You want to eliminate standing water spots near the house wherever possible and that would help with drainage. As with everything, it comes down to a budget. An expat and GW fan watching in sunny Florida.
Thanks Joe! That was really useful. I'm currently searching for my new garden so it's going to be really great to be able to watch and learn from your progress 🙂
This is so exciting Joe… keep the vlogs coming! Maybe do live vlogs when doing some of the structural planting? I’d love to watch that… maybe some tutorial vlogs re: pruning overgrown plants and creating space ? Hopefully it’ll also be shown on GW?
Enjoying watching your thought process and how you approach this. Interesting that you are going all native planting in the garden, so that it borrows the surrounding views and existing wood copse. Its a form of rewilding in a way. Gardening is editing the land around us even rewilding needs human input at this scale. Will that native planting continue into your choice of flowers or just for living architecture of the trees and shrubs?
Thanks- It’s not really rewilding, more working with nature and the time I have available to put into it. There’ll be a lot of non native plants (still great for wildlife) but more naturalistic and less cottage-y as it is now..
So happy to have found your channel! Congratulations on your new garden and Happy New Year! As a garden designer in the States I am looking forward to see your creations! I must say I met you at Chelsea this past year and you were so gloriously generous with your time...I arrived on the first member's day...so busy, but you made the time and effort to be kind. Thank you and wishing you and your family nothing but glorious times in that lovely garden.
We can feel your enthusiasm! Thanks for sharing your thinking at this early stage, Joe. Is the main view towards the field south-facing? Just what we need at this low point of the year to keep spirits up.
I'm very excited to follow along as you transform your garden. I found you through Ann- Marie's live this morning. Im in Canada, where it's currently -12C, so no gardening for me today!
I love the changes you are planning for your garden. I dont really like all those squares now... Wonder if you will have a water feature? Such a big garden surely should have a pond or something, water is so calming to look at. And good for wildlife 💚🤞🏻
Thank you for sharing your new garden with us. Really interesting to hear and see your thought process. Are you going to include vegetables in the new more organic design?
Just binge-watched and it will be fun to follow your plans✏ and doings👨🌾 in your "new" old garden. You're lucky to got a lot of nice plants "in stock" in your garden to move around, instead of going to a garden center and spend 💷 . Do you sell or give away plants you don't want to keep? Thank you for sharing ! Best wishes from Sweden⛄
Hi Joe, first of all: love your new plan! What an exiting adventure it is :) Secondly: are there any plans to feature your new garden on Gardeners World?
That’s really interesting to see how a designer sees a site and works out a design….BUT….importantly….where is north? ….and where will you grow veg without shading from trees please?
Ok, so not really traditional topiary at all- clipped organic curved shapes, just some structure to tie in with the topography of the area…I’ll show a visual one day of what I mean, thanks for watching!
Gardens are the ultimate my place, my fantasy. If modern topiary is what you dig, you have it. I’m hanging off your every word and who knows, might even steal ideas for my Australian garden in the burbs.
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This is so exciting! So glad you're sharing your passion & process!
The most exciting part of owning a garden, in my opinion, is this stage - planning the future and all the possibilities. Glad I found this channel, having been a fan of Joe Swift for 20 years, and looking forward to seeing the progress.
Hi Joe, love the garden and the channel. I think this would be a perfect project to show on gardeners world. I feel the show has lost something recently, and i think your garden would be great for beginner gardeners to show what can be done with a mature garden. Something many new homeowners are faced with.
Good luck with the project.
I love the way that you're thinking about the landscape, moving through it, the vistas, the woodland, and changing the perspective from the house to a flowing horizontal plan - thank you for sharing your insights, brilliant!
Love seeing how your mind works on this. I’m ok with pruning and planting but I really do lack this kind of vision so thank you for this Joe 👍🏻
So happy to see you doing this. I know it will be lots of fun watching the progression. And yes, I am jealous!
Hi Joe, I’m a new subscriber and a new Garden Designer. I love your lateral flow drifts design for your garden. It’s nice to see a move away from traditional straight lines and rectangles, that are not sympathetic to the surrounding curving countryside. I also look forward to seeing the organic topiary / cloud pruning near the house. It will give amazing structure and interest during the winter, even before you add other winter interest planting. Please share more design ideas to help us learn 👍🏻 thanks.
Good luck Joe
Joe thank you so much for your planning video!! It is wonderful to see/ watch a garden designer work. Best wishes on the new garden from Nova Scotia Canada
Nova Scotia, this is going global! thanks for watching
Wonderful to see greennery in January
, -- 12 * C in Nova Scotia!
Hi Joe, thanks for sharing your gardening journey with us. I'm just working my way through your videos to get up to date. It's going to keep me going during winter here in New Zealand! One question from me, are you planning on keeping the veg patch? Thanks again!
Happy New Year! I stumbeled over Your videos during Christmas. Very nice and exiting! Congrats with Your new garden. What a challenge to take on a old, slightly overgrown and quite large garden. Looking forward to follow! Best wishes from Norway.
Thanks for watching!
I've just binge watched your new channel and cant wait to see how things develop.
I have also shared the channel with two friends who also enjoy gardening 👍
Happy new garden and Happy New Year Mr Swift. Thoroughly enjoying your channel and look forward to following along on this masterclass in garden design and development. Greetings from Perth, Western Australia.
Such fun to see how you approach the process! Thinking about horizontal lines on a property versus working in a straight lines toward the back is a new, yet exciting, concept to process..can alllmost conceptualize it, will take a few re-watches to 'click' for me! 😅
Thank you. My back yard is very similar to yours and I don't know where to start. This helps. I can't wait to see how your area develops.
Fabulous plans 💚💚💚
😊 ,look forward to seeing your garden develop and grow ,its a really nice garden project to make your own personal garden ,enjoy ,😊
Oh it’s going to be great! Can’t wait to see you start Joe!
Thank you
Brilliant! You’ve even given me ideas.
I've got several Sarcococca Confusa and various evergreen daphnes for their winter form and scent. Afraid I cant smell Hamamellis either.
Going to be so exciting watching you work your magic on your new place! So thrilling watching your own garden come together!
Thank you for sharing your thought process, looking forward to your next videos
That was a great how to kind of run through garden design 101 kind of thing! Thanks very much, some really great insights in hit to form the new back bone of an existing garden 👍
How many times will the plan change I wonder? I planned my garden on paper but then it just became organically designed. As you know the more time you spend in a garden the more things change. I envy you and your new garden. I started my garden 15 years ago in France and it’s still evolving. Thank you for your wonderful videos. Good luck 👍🥂
Interesting stuff and you’re fortunate that you’ve got good bones to work with already. I think your gravel idea is good. You want to eliminate standing water spots near the house wherever possible and that would help with drainage. As with everything, it comes down to a budget. An expat and GW fan watching in sunny Florida.
Hi Joe happy new year to you & family lv Irene 😘 xx
Thanks Joe! That was really useful. I'm currently searching for my new garden so it's going to be really great to be able to watch and learn from your progress 🙂
This is so exciting Joe… keep the vlogs coming! Maybe do live vlogs when doing some of the structural planting? I’d love to watch that… maybe some tutorial vlogs re: pruning overgrown plants and creating space ? Hopefully it’ll also be shown on GW?
👌Looking forward to watching you develop your garden plans.
I’m so excited to see the progress in the new garden 🥰
Very interesting, really enjoying these updates. Xx
Enjoying watching your thought process and how you approach this. Interesting that you are going all native planting in the garden, so that it borrows the surrounding views and existing wood copse. Its a form of rewilding in a way. Gardening is editing the land around us even rewilding needs human input at this scale. Will that native planting continue into your choice of flowers or just for living architecture of the trees and shrubs?
Thanks- It’s not really rewilding, more working with nature and the time I have available to put into it. There’ll be a lot of non native plants (still great for wildlife) but more naturalistic and less cottage-y as it is now..
Thank you for sharing the development of your garden Joe. I look forward to seeing how it develops.
Great video, loved seeing your thought process. Can't wait to see the next episode. Exciting times
So happy to have found your channel! Congratulations on your new garden and Happy New Year! As a garden designer in the States I am looking forward to see your creations! I must say I met you at Chelsea this past year and you were so gloriously generous with your time...I arrived on the first member's day...so busy, but you made the time and effort to be kind. Thank you and wishing you and your family nothing but glorious times in that lovely garden.
Just subscribed Joe. Looking forward to catching up and seeing where you go with this already beautiful garden. Thanks for taking us along 👍
It's so interesting to hear your thought pattern & excited to see it take shape
Beautiful design process ❤
Looking forward to the journey, thanks for sharing it with us.
So chuffed to have found your vlog 🎉 love your garden and very excited to see how it develops your work is amazing !
Interesting and exciting!
Really great video, looking forward to you going through the whole process. Love the drone shots, extremely helpful Keep up the good work. Cheers
Brilliant insight into how to think and design. Thanks Joe!
We can feel your enthusiasm! Thanks for sharing your thinking at this early stage, Joe. Is the main view towards the field south-facing? Just what we need at this low point of the year to keep spirits up.
Yes, south/south west and thanks
Happy new year
I really enjoy design videos like this! Thanks for sharing yours!
Thank you for sharing your insights - fascinating to hear the creative process. Best wishes with your plans
Thank you
Big plans! We're subscribing and following along :) Greetings from Denmark.
This was fascinating to watch.
Can't wait to see how your garden develops , 😊
I'm very excited to follow along as you transform your garden. I found you through Ann- Marie's live this morning. Im in Canada, where it's currently -12C, so no gardening for me today!
Pretty cold here but not quite -12!
Happy New Year Joe! :D
Glorious
I love the changes you are planning for your garden. I dont really like all those squares now... Wonder if you will have a water feature? Such a big garden surely should have a pond or something, water is so calming to look at. And good for wildlife 💚🤞🏻
Yes, a water feature would be lovely
Thank you for sharing your new garden with us. Really interesting to hear and see your thought process. Are you going to include vegetables in the new more organic design?
Just binge-watched and it will be fun to follow your plans✏ and doings👨🌾 in your "new" old garden. You're lucky to got a lot of nice plants "in stock" in your garden to move around, instead of going to a garden center and spend 💷 . Do you sell or give away plants you don't want to keep? Thank you for sharing ! Best wishes from Sweden⛄
I’ll keep most and the ones I don’t want will probably be too big to move but any I can save and give away I will..
Really enjoying watching you work in your garden. Have you found any snowdrops? 🤞there are some in your woodland. ❤
Hi Joe, first of all: love your new plan! What an exiting adventure it is :) Secondly: are there any plans to feature your new garden on Gardeners World?
Not really, doing my own thing here…
Hi Joe have you got a greenhouse? lv Irene 😘 xx
Yes, a small rickety old thing
That’s really interesting to see how a designer sees a site and works out a design….BUT….importantly….where is north? ….and where will you grow veg without shading from trees please?
Thanks for watching- I’ll run through it on another video- basically it’s south west facing and there’s plenty of sun!
Did you see it when everything was in bloom in summer before you dig plants out ?
A little but the layout and hard landscaping areas are generally non negotiable and not having to lose anything I just have to keep!
@@theswifty0007 good look with it anyway an look forward to seeing your progress 👍
Who is that woman, 'Flo',? Who you keep mentioning.😂😅😊
Your voice is so soft I cannot hear what you are saying.
No one’s said that to me before! I’m generally loud, maybe something working with your device?
Perhaps? I have a few people I cannot listen to, as they are too quiet.
I got everything turned up to I00% or maybe my lugs?@@theswifty0007
Looking forward to everything....
...except.....(sorry!)...TOPIARY no,no,no....just no...
Topiary can be a great feature. I'm all for it
Ok, so not really traditional topiary at all- clipped organic curved shapes, just some structure to tie in with the topography of the area…I’ll show a visual one day of what I mean, thanks for watching!
Gardens are the ultimate my place, my fantasy. If modern topiary is what you dig, you have it. I’m hanging off your every word and who knows, might even steal ideas for my Australian garden in the burbs.
Would of been nice to see what you talk about instead of your scribbling which makes sense to you...only.
If you watch some of the other videos you’ll see shots of the garden and drone shots so my ‘scribbling’ should make more sense!