Michelle you make gardening doable. I wish we were neighbors. I live in 6b in northern New Mexico. Our weather systems are very similar! So glad I found you.
I hope that your bur oak grows as quickly as my pin oak did here in Iowa City, IA...it was six feet tall when planted 25 years ago and is now looming over our two story house. I never thought I would live to see it get as high as the house!
I put solar tiny white lights on my arbor and I absolutely love them. I think they would be great on your arbor. I want to get Lady of Shallot roses for my arbor. I’m glad to see you used them for the same application I was thinking of for them. That gives me the confidence to try it.
I just love your cottage garden Michelle. Isn’t it interesting watching our gardens evolve and change along the way. I’m enjoying the process of the journey and learning from other people like you so thank you so much. 👍
I watched your reveal and I loved it! It turned out so beautiful. I live in central Florida, zone 9A so, of course a lot of the plants you chose would not do well here but several would and I use them in my gardens as well. I really like seeing your layouts(designs) for the gardens.
Very lovely! You always inspire. Those gabion pieces, 🤔 now I'm wondering where I can put something like that. I've been working on a garden all season long. At the end of the day, I take copious photos and stare at them for hours, dreaming of what to put in the "holes." I really like that Veronica's icy blue tone.
So so gorgeous--such a lovely 4-season-interest and colorful mix! Would you please do a tutorial on making gabions with the tall and short cages? Would love to replicate something like that. Thank you!
Fabulous garden you have created......you have a great eye. I really like the gabeon pillar. I think I will see if I can make one. I am making a cottage garden and I am looking for ideas. You did an outstanding job and I learned about some new plants and also trees. Many thanks.
Yeah tulip trees get really big and they get they grow fast so watch out for it it will go fast and they received their self too so you'll get some extra ones but you can give them away give them up or whatever so it's nice I'm the one with the 30s at memorial Park in New Kensington PA and I enjoy my 30 gardens out there all mostly flowers I have some fruit fruit trees my phone keeps going I enjoy watching
I am in awe of quickly and intuitively you pulled together such a beautiful combination of plants, hard scapes and whimsical elements to create the foundation of a cottage garden that will bring you years of enjoyment. Your love of gardening and passion for teaching show through in every video!!! You are very generous in sharing your time and expertise 😇
I love the results! I appreciate that you explain how you install the path/hardscapes and what you use. I want to landscape my front yard, and your videos are inspiring, but that won't be until another year or two, but I did have 3 trees installed. It's a start, right? The gabion table and pedestal are gorgeous. I also like the paver planter. All of those touches make your garden unique. I Like your enthusiasm and your "dont stress about it" approach to gardening. A lot of young gardeners want things just right; well, that's not how nature works. I have been gardening for a long time but I am always learning something new! Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us! Btw, I garden in Southern California, Zone 10a.
I am a new subscriber I am so happy I found you😊 I love your cottage garden it came out beautiful! I have been looking for ideas for my blue & white Garden shed thanks for all the great ideas! I am so excited for spring!❤ I am also Zone5B
The raccoon is checking out your work. You could add a water feature they love washing their hands ❤😅 I enjoy your garden ideas and your knowledge of the plants and projects your designing is awesome.
So happy you have already had a little visitor to your beautiful cottage garden! It is already lovely and will only continue to grow and fill in. I’m sure you will enjoy sitting out there in the evenings with a cold drink taking it all in. Enjoy!
Liriodendron (tulip tree, tulip poplar) leaves are catface shaped. The Chinese cultivars only grow to 30 ft. to 40 ft. tall. It has a tap root and the wood is flexible so there aren't a lot of branches that drop during wind storms. My tulip tree is at least 60 ft. tall and it is 105 years old. It would have been taller, up to 80 ft. tall, if my soil wasn't a mixture of clay and sandstone chunks.
I love your ideas! We just moved to a new house in a new state and it’s a big overwhelming empty canvas. You’ve given me a starting point! Thank you and keep inspiring us to grow!
Your cottage garden is beautiful and it is you! Thanks for taking us along thru the process. Would alternating the solar lights give it a looser look, less regimented? Great job!
The lights are only side by side at the beginning of the walk by the arch. I did alternate them the rest of the way, so good eye, you are absolutely right. 😉
Your creative ideas are fantastic and just my style! Such a great number of cottage garden plants. I can't wait to get some of each in my garden! ❤🎉❤🎉❤🎉❤
So pretty! One suggestion...maybe create a curvy softer edge with the dogwoods? It would look more natural instead of the straight edge of the shed and a straight edge with the dogwood. Otherwise, gorgeous!
Such a joy to watch as you walked us through your beautiful, new cottage garden….Michelle, it is absolutely gorgeous!!! You’re so right, this makes me want to get out and get to planting!!! Only it’s 102° where I live right now but, I will be anxious to get started in the fall!! Love everything you planted….can’t wait to see the progression over time….especially loved that rose arbor, the winding path, and the gabions…you’re so clever!! 🌼
I love the moon and sun you placed on your barn, did I mess it on where you bought that? Love love love how you have a red barn, I’m jealous for I’ve always wanted one! Everything look so beautiful!!!! So, glad I found you on TH-cam!
Wow!! That came out beautifully and I hope you are able to sit there often and enjoy the view. That is alot of work. I missed Part 2, so now I will go watch that one. I love the stone planter you made. I really like stone planters, but the cost soooo much and I think I could make one after seeing yours! I will watch closely to see how you made the basket tables too. Congratulations! Do you or are you planning to have irrigation? Thanks!
Tulip tree we had in New Jersey 75+ tall we had it for over 50 yrs until it got hit by lightning and split the tree broke our hearts to have to take it down.
Ok this was bugging me, because my tag clearly said climber, and I watched Laura at Garden Answer plant one on a trellis at her sister house too...same one...Apparently there are both climbing and shrub versions of this David Austin Rose. While the climber is considered a shorter variety, it is a climber. So now we both learned something 😀
This is just beautiful! I know you will use this a lot! morning coffee or late-night cocktails. I love the rock tables and the patio stone container; how did you make these do you have a video of this? love love Genie : )
So pretty I love how organized it is and how you described the plants so well. Can all Perennials be cut back to the base and know they will come back either this year or next year ?
In addition to normal annual cutting back I have been cutting back for years throughout the season, sometimes because we had to move them in the summer or divide them. Sometimes I would lose one, but 95% of the time if I watered them and fertilized them a couple weeks later (I don't fertilize them after Sept 15th here in zone 5) I have great success. In all my years in landscaping the biggest issue was never cutting them back...it was almost always water issues.
OMG!!!! Michelle, that is freaking amazing. You certainly are talented....I'm just working on a 1000$ per year budget on landscaping.....what would you suggest for a project like your cottage garden....ie...just the bones/framing first yr, then the additional plantings....? Idk....but that looks absolutely gorgeous, I totally feel.your esthetic
Wow, thank you! Costs for hardscape stuff is so different from region to region. You should be able to get.most of the "bones" on that budget. Shop around.
Have been following the process, it’s absolutely lovely, great suggestion for your arch, I’m just about to move mine and we get pretty crazy winters and high winds in Canada, we are Zone 4, so might “steal” your suggestion. Can I ask your opinion on landscape fabric, redoing a garden bed and my landscaper is suggesting it?? Not so sure. Enjoy that beautiful garden.
Ok, this is just my opinion and my experience with it. I ripped it out all the time as a landscaper. I think it is a waste of money. Cheap thin fabric does not work. And it will only surpress weeds some. Weeds will find those holes you cut in the fabric and grow through. And weeds will grow on top. I only use it to smother something and I am not planting anything there, or if I am putting in rock (I don't want the rock to work into the ground) or something like the sand around the firepit. I also use a pretty expensive very high quality fabric if I do use it. In the cottage garden project I used fabric where the sand is around the firepit only. I sprayed all the weeds out in this area before we even started. (Did that in the Getting Rid of Weeds Video) Good cultural practices, in my opinion, are better, at least for me. Please note this is just my opinion, and I garden in my spots all the time, so I am always moving and adding plants, so fabric is a waste. You have to do what is right for you.
Have you done an update? It would be cool to see an update and changes you had to make. I'm also in 5 and trying so hard but I think 2 of my roses didn't make it and my peonies are 2 years in- lots of sun didn't bloom but the one in the shade did.
I don't think so, thank you for trying to help me identify it, you are a darling. It came out of a black can and all the Knock-out roses I buy from the wholesalers have their own trademarked pots. Plus I know for a fact that I have never ordered in peach Knock-outs for the store.
You originally said that David Austin rose would grow to 8 feet and then when you were reading the description you said 4 feet? I can look it up but I’m concerned for you. It won’t go over the top of your arch if it’s only 4 feet.
@@gardeningTLC is there another climbing rose that blooms and blooms all summer. I'm designing a garden for a real estate. Client and I want a side yard gate with an arch and either a rose or. .... Thank you!
You are an inspiration for all of us. It looks great and hasn't yet had time to grow. Hope you share so.e updates later in the season.
We will!
Nice job, I love it! I also live in zone 5b and love watching gardeners in my zone. Thank you for taking the time to share with us.
Beautiful start to your cottage garden! It’s going to be a enjoyable experience watching everything fill in. Great job!
Michelle you make gardening doable. I wish we were neighbors. I live in 6b in northern New Mexico. Our weather systems are very similar! So glad I found you.
The garden is beautiful and very inspiring! There’s so many twists, turns and clever surprises 💗
Thank you so much!
I’m a late comer , just found your channel. I love your garden ! Now I want to start over with mine it’s a hot mess 🥴. So much information ❤
OH WOW!! 😍 Michelle.... that is STUNNING!! I am so glad I found your channel! Thank you for sharing your vision and expertise.
You are so welcome! ...& Thanks for watching..and welcome to the family!!
I hope that your bur oak grows as quickly as my pin oak did here in Iowa City, IA...it was six feet tall when planted 25 years ago and is now looming over our two story house. I never thought I would live to see it get as high as the house!
That is the hope 😀
I put solar tiny white lights on my arbor and I absolutely love them. I think they would be great on your arbor. I want to get Lady of Shallot roses for my arbor. I’m glad to see you used them for the same application I was thinking of for them. That gives me the confidence to try it.
I just love your cottage garden Michelle. Isn’t it interesting watching our gardens evolve and change along the way. I’m enjoying the process of the journey and learning from other people like you so thank you so much. 👍
Yes I love it. 🥰This new garden has already got me walking the front garden with new ideas😀😀😀
I watched your reveal and I loved it! It turned out so beautiful. I live in central Florida, zone 9A so, of course a lot of the plants you chose would not do well here but several would and I use them in my gardens as well. I really like seeing your layouts(designs) for the gardens.
Awesome! Thank you!
I love the curved path! I’m always thinking of straight lines so need to change my mindset. That is a perfect end of day with a glass of wine spot😊.
Oh yes! But I hate wine..I know, I know.....I'll have a ice cold Corona with a lime please...lol
@@gardeningTLC lol! That would be my first beer choice❤️
Such a fun series! Everything looks beautiful. Can’t wait to see it this summer! Lots of great advice!
Michelle, it is absolutely beautiful! Thank you so much for sharing! I love your channel. I am learning so much. Have a blessed week.❤
You as well. and thank you
I love your videos, Michelle! Your passion is contagious!😃
Thank you 😀
Very lovely!
You always inspire. Those gabion pieces, 🤔 now I'm wondering where I can put something like that.
I've been working on a garden all season long. At the end of the day, I take copious photos and stare at them for hours, dreaming of what to put in the "holes." I really like that Veronica's icy blue tone.
Love it! It already looks peaceful and relaxing.
So so gorgeous--such a lovely 4-season-interest and colorful mix! Would you please do a tutorial on making gabions with the tall and short cages? Would love to replicate something like that. Thank you!
Fabulous garden you have created......you have a great eye. I really like the gabeon pillar. I think I will see if I can make one. I am making a cottage garden and I am looking for ideas. You did an outstanding job and I learned about some new plants and also trees. Many thanks.
Yeah tulip trees get really big and they get they grow fast so watch out for it it will go fast and they received their self too so you'll get some extra ones but you can give them away give them up or whatever so it's nice I'm the one with the 30s at memorial Park in New Kensington PA and I enjoy my 30 gardens out there all mostly flowers I have some fruit fruit trees my phone keeps going I enjoy watching
Everything looks great I can't wait to see the progress this year. Love your Channel Michelle you did just fine with the camera. No problem
Thanks so much! 😊
Your cottage garden is beautiful, im excited to see it in spring and summer.
Me too!!
I am in awe of quickly and intuitively you pulled together such a beautiful combination of plants, hard scapes and whimsical elements to create the foundation of a cottage garden that will bring you years of enjoyment. Your love of gardening and passion for teaching show through in every video!!! You are very generous in sharing your time and expertise 😇
My pleasure and thank you
Wow! It's going to be beautiful. I love the arbor.
Thank you! 😊
You did A lovely job, I would love sitting in your secret garden!
Thank you! 😊
I love the results! I appreciate that you explain how you install the path/hardscapes and what you use. I want to landscape my front yard, and your videos are inspiring, but that won't be until another year or two, but I did have 3 trees installed. It's a start, right? The gabion table and pedestal are gorgeous. I also like the paver planter. All of those touches make your garden unique. I Like your enthusiasm and your "dont stress about it" approach to gardening. A lot of young gardeners want things just right; well, that's not how nature works. I have been gardening for a long time but I am always learning something new! Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us! Btw, I garden in Southern California, Zone 10a.
Thank you
I love it all! My favorite style for gardens.
Love that!
Looks absolutely beautiful!
I am a new subscriber
I am so happy I found you😊 I love your cottage garden it came out beautiful!
I have been looking for ideas for my blue & white Garden shed thanks for all the great ideas! I am so excited for spring!❤ I am also Zone5B
Welcome and thank you for watching !!
It came out wonderful. Great ideas. 😊
Thanks so much! 😊
Your cottage garden is perfect, and I love the fire pit!
Thank you so much!
Not done yet...just the beginning. 😀
Just beautiful Michelle
I love it!!! Beautiful job Michelle
Thank you so much!!
Great job! Looks gorgeous ❤
Absolutely gorgeous. I love your style!!!
Thank you so much!
The raccoon is checking out your work. You could add a water feature they love washing their hands ❤😅 I enjoy your garden ideas and your knowledge of the plants and projects your designing is awesome.
Thank you
So happy you have already had a little visitor to your beautiful cottage garden! It is already lovely and will only continue to grow and fill in. I’m sure you will enjoy sitting out there in the evenings with a cold drink taking it all in. Enjoy!
Thank you so much!
Nice job ! Looks beautiful now .....wait till next year
Can't wait!
It’s so beautiful!!!
Your garden is gorgeous! 🎉congratulations!, Yes you are an inspiration!❤️🥰🌸🌼🌺🌷
Thank you so much 🙂
It looks so amazing. Thank you for sharing.
Thanks for watching!
Beautiful!
So lovely! ❤
It looks fantastic 😍
SO pretty. You will enjoy it so much in just a few years. ❤
Wonderful! Love it!
Just beautiful ! Great job !
Thank you very much!
That is the prettiest arch I have seen!
Looks beautiful..❤
You did a great job and will look even better as it matures. Bonny
I knew it would turn out amazing! Great job!! It's beautiful!!
Thank you
Thank you!!!! Beautiful!!!!
Glad you like it!
Beautiful! Thank you!
Glad you like it!
Love, love, I so enjoy watching how YOU landscape.
I'm so glad! Thank you!
Very pretty ❤
Love, love, love it!
Glad you like it!
It so very, very beautiful all your choices you picked to put in your new cottage garden❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
I think so too!
Love what you did everything looks great!!
Thanks so much! 😊
I love seeing the layout and love your style 💗
Thank you so much!
Liriodendron (tulip tree, tulip poplar) leaves are catface shaped. The Chinese cultivars only grow to 30 ft. to 40 ft. tall. It has a tap root and the wood is flexible so there aren't a lot of branches that drop during wind storms. My tulip tree is at least 60 ft. tall and it is 105 years old. It would have been taller, up to 80 ft. tall, if my soil wasn't a mixture of clay and sandstone chunks.
Your new space is beautiful. So many great ideas for my own garden. Thank you and congratulations on getting paid ❤
Thank you
I love your ideas! We just moved to a new house in a new state and it’s a big overwhelming empty canvas. You’ve given me a starting point! Thank you and keep inspiring us to grow!
You are so welcome!
It looks great! Love your videos
Glad you like them!
I’m really enjoying your channel, I’m so happy I’ve found you.
Welcome aboard!
It’s looking beautiful. Enjoy
Thank you 😊
Looks beautiful
Thank you!
Your cottage garden is beautiful and it is you! Thanks for taking us along thru the process. Would alternating the solar lights give it a looser look, less regimented? Great job!
The lights are only side by side at the beginning of the walk by the arch. I did alternate them the rest of the way, so good eye, you are absolutely right. 😉
Gorgeous - well done! 💝
Thank you! 😊
Your creative ideas are fantastic and just my style! Such a great number of cottage garden plants. I can't wait to get some of each in my garden! ❤🎉❤🎉❤🎉❤
Glad you like them!
So pretty! One suggestion...maybe create a curvy softer edge with the dogwoods? It would look more natural instead of the straight edge of the shed and a straight edge with the dogwood. Otherwise, gorgeous!
Love it! 🌻🌹🌼
So glad!
Beautiful work!
Thank you very much!
Such a joy to watch as you walked us through your beautiful, new cottage garden….Michelle, it is absolutely gorgeous!!! You’re so right, this makes me want to get out and get to planting!!! Only it’s 102° where I live right now but, I will be anxious to get started in the fall!! Love everything you planted….can’t wait to see the progression over time….especially loved that rose arbor, the winding path, and the gabions…you’re so clever!! 🌼
Oh I can pinterest with the best of them and find things that speak to me.
@@gardeningTLC Love Pinterest…I "see" plenty….question is….do I put it into action?!!! Lol! ~ You did a great job!!!
It's fair grand Michelle, and your choice of fence will finish it off nicely.
LOVE it!
Thank you for sharing your project! I'm always inspired and thoroughly entertained.
Thank you
@@gardeningTLC I'm so glad you're going with an iron fence. I was thumbs up on the fence from the moment you mention it. An iron fence is perfect.
So beautiful 💞💞💞
Thanks 🤗
Looks great. Hope you show it as it starts to fill in and you add more 🌸
I will!
G gorgeous garden. You work fast
Well 4 guys certainly help...me alone, this would have been a full week or more of work
Love it Learned a lot Thanks for sharing Best of luck with your u tube channel
So nice of you
I love the moon and sun you placed on your barn, did I mess it on where you bought that? Love love love how you have a red barn, I’m jealous for I’ve always wanted one! Everything look so beautiful!!!! So, glad I found you on TH-cam!
It is from a wholesale company I use called "Very Cool Stuff" I do not know if they sell over the internet?
Very pretty
Wow!! That came out beautifully and I hope you are able to sit there often and enjoy the view. That is alot of work. I missed Part 2, so now I will go watch that one. I love the stone planter you made. I really like stone planters, but the cost soooo much and I think I could make one after seeing yours! I will watch closely to see how you made the basket tables too. Congratulations! Do you or are you planning to have irrigation? Thanks!
No irrigation at this time. I do not have a sprinkler system.
Tulip tree we had in New Jersey 75+ tall we had it for over 50 yrs until it got hit by lightning and split the tree broke our hearts to have to take it down.
Oh...so sad
Lady of Shallot is not a climber. It’s a shrub. I hope it does what you want. Nice garden!
hmmm...interesting, me too, tag said climber.
Ok this was bugging me, because my tag clearly said climber, and I watched Laura at Garden Answer plant one on a trellis at her sister house too...same one...Apparently there are both climbing and shrub versions of this David Austin Rose. While the climber is considered a shorter variety, it is a climber. So now we both learned something 😀
This is just beautiful! I know you will use this a lot! morning coffee or late-night cocktails. I love the rock tables and the patio stone container; how did you make these do you have a video of this? love love Genie : )
Heavy duty peony and heavy duty tomato cages....3 cages each
So pretty I love how organized it is and how you described the plants so well. Can all Perennials be cut back to the base and know they will come back either this year or next year ?
In addition to normal annual cutting back I have been cutting back for years throughout the season, sometimes because we had to move them in the summer or divide them. Sometimes I would lose one, but 95% of the time if I watered them and fertilized them a couple weeks later (I don't fertilize them after Sept 15th here in zone 5) I have great success. In all my years in landscaping the biggest issue was never cutting them back...it was almost always water issues.
OMG!!!! Michelle, that is freaking amazing. You certainly are talented....I'm just working on a 1000$ per year budget on landscaping.....what would you suggest for a project like your cottage garden....ie...just the bones/framing first yr, then the additional plantings....? Idk....but that looks absolutely gorgeous, I totally feel.your esthetic
Wow, thank you! Costs for hardscape stuff is so different from region to region. You should be able to get.most of the "bones" on that budget. Shop around.
Have been following the process, it’s absolutely lovely, great suggestion for your arch, I’m just about to move mine and we get pretty crazy winters and high winds in Canada, we are Zone 4, so might “steal” your suggestion. Can I ask your opinion on landscape fabric, redoing a garden bed and my landscaper is suggesting it?? Not so sure. Enjoy that beautiful garden.
Ok, this is just my opinion and my experience with it. I ripped it out all the time as a landscaper. I think it is a waste of money. Cheap thin fabric does not work. And it will only surpress weeds some. Weeds will find those holes you cut in the fabric and grow through. And weeds will grow on top. I only use it to smother something and I am not planting anything there, or if I am putting in rock (I don't want the rock to work into the ground) or something like the sand around the firepit. I also use a pretty expensive very high quality fabric if I do use it. In the cottage garden project I used fabric where the sand is around the firepit only. I sprayed all the weeds out in this area before we even started. (Did that in the Getting Rid of Weeds Video) Good cultural practices, in my opinion, are better, at least for me. Please note this is just my opinion, and I garden in my spots all the time, so I am always moving and adding plants, so fabric is a waste. You have to do what is right for you.
So neat looking!! And I just love the table!!! What kind of rocks did you use?? My husband thought they were man made ones.
Nope. Granite Boulders 😀
I have this yard too!😊
Going native, no roses, using native honeysuckle instead. Not feeding the NJ deer
Have you done an update? It would be cool to see an update and changes you had to make.
I'm also in 5 and trying so hard but I think 2 of my roses didn't make it and my peonies are 2 years in- lots of sun didn't bloom but the one in the shade did.
Yes I did an update in 2 garden tours this April and May and I did a video adding things to the cottage garden..maybe 2 weeks ago
Beautiful design! Do you add drip irrigation at all? I would forget to water all that....
No
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Beautiful cottage garden design! Does the privacy hedge (artic fire dogwood?) get 5-6ft tall?
Yes
That's a peach knockout rose
I don't think so, thank you for trying to help me identify it, you are a darling. It came out of a black can and all the Knock-out roses I buy from the wholesalers have their own trademarked pots. Plus I know for a fact that I have never ordered in peach Knock-outs for the store.
You originally said that David Austin rose would grow to 8 feet and then when you were reading the description you said 4 feet? I can look it up but I’m concerned for you. It won’t go over the top of your arch if it’s only 4 feet.
I know...I realized that...I'm gonna do some switching...
@@gardeningTLC is there another climbing rose that blooms and blooms all summer. I'm designing a garden for a real estate. Client and I want a side yard gate with an arch and either a rose or. ....
Thank you!
I like everything but the white rock path. Not a fan. I’m a barefoot girl.