I feel like things shouldn't be perfect on TH-cam. I come to TH-cam to learn and seeing things that are real help me to believe that I can actually accomplish things myself.
Well then - you’re in the right place! We’re not perfect 😂 and we work hard for the little garden that we have (and we do it without spending a lot of money). Thanks for watching and for commenting. Greetings from Denmark 🇩🇰
"pretend everything is perfect like it should be on TH-cam" 😂I absolutely LOVE the color of the building, the greenhouse, and the fence-all coordinating and looks really high end. The stone paths are beautiful too! Thank you for sharing, happy gardening!
The black accents in the garden are such a great idea and especially the fence contrasts the green ( and the colors of the blooms) so beautifully 💚 amazing to see the before shot of your garden!
The painting of the greenhouse is a stroke of genius. That is something one rarely sees, so congrats on that one 👏 All the ideas are good ones and inspirational. Love love love the middle border. It's always a treat to see one of your videos pop up 🌸🌿😊
Fairy lights for sure! I think I've finally found some (solar powered) that will work with the limited amount of solar we actually get during the non-summer months. Hope so at least 😅
Love the black paint! I always lean to white paint but the black paint looks so great! We have a wisteria for 34 years now. It's a lot of work to keep it under control but it is magnificent when it blooms! Thanks for the video! 😊
Beautiful design changes ! My home and all outdoor wooden structures are stained very dark chocolate type brown for the 25 years or so. I've stained all outdoor benches, fencing, trellis's black over the past couple of years and as you, I LOVE it. The gardens and vibrant botanicals have been given an incredible backdrop. In some ways as a theatrical backdrop, with intention the the blossoms and foliage can take "center stage". I find that black also provides a lovely visual calm, a Zen scape of sorts...... Continued delights your family in the beauty of all seasons...... Wonderful ! Smiles to you from a fellow habitat lover that lives at Lake Tahoe
Totally! I bet that dark chocolate looks great. And you're right... it really gives the plants a chance to show off (as they deserve!). Greetings from Denmark to you in Lake Tahoe 🥰
Wow, never heard of a raccoon dog before. Love the black fence and glass house. Good idea painting it to save costs. Also, seriously impressed that fence was built by hand.
Thanks for watching. The Racoon dog is intense, right? And quite large. It's not native to Denmark... so we have to call animal control when it does come (always in early spring). And yes... that fence was a labor of love with Lars's dad providing the real know-how... and we 3 just doing what we're told. haha
Racoon dogs originate in China. They are farmed for their fur - are kept in very tight wire cages until they are killed. I advise caution if you decide to investigate further - it’s extremely distressing.
Sometimes it's the little things which have the most impact. We had our walkway and steps re paved with slabs 2 years ago. I've always been really disappointed with the raw edge. We top up the woodchip, but naturally it sinks and the edge is revealed again. This week I bought sone sleepers placed them about 6 inches away from the slab at the same level and back filled the gap with topsoil and planted in creeping thyme. We can still step out easily onto the garden but now it looks finished. I can't wait until the thyme fills in! I agree the black elements in the garden look classy and help to make everything else "pop"
Slowly making my way through your videos .They are so good that I keep getting distracted from doing my own garden! Black paint definitely makes the plants "pop". Lots of people here in England have started using it. Your Wisteria is great and looks really established. I was surprised to hear how young it is.
AHHH thanks for spending your time with us 🥰. And yes! The 2 wisteria in the back aren't that old... it grows like crazy tho. Not so many flowers this past year... but that will come as it ages.
What a great idea, painting your greenhouse!! I think I might have to take that inspiration and use it on my own greenhouse. It looks so smart in black I love it! Great work guys! Beautiful inspirational garden xx
Do take it 🥰. It made a huge difference to the overall vibe of the garden - and it saved us from buying a new one. We used the cheapest spray paint for metal, too. An easy makeover in just a weekend 🖤.
I love the black accents! Especially on the greenhouse - itgives it kind of a vintage/ dark academia feeling... I like that! I hope the "prunus laurocerasus" and the "Buddleja davidii" I think I saw in your otherwise lovely garden are not invasive neophytes for denmark! They are in Switzerland and Germany. If they are, please consider replacing them. Otherwise - as I said - wonderful lovely garden with nice ideas for small gardens!
Thank you so much for watching! Those 2 are OK for our area... so we're safe so far. We do have to worry about other invasive types... like Houttuynia cordata that we've been removing for a while now 😅 Greetings to you from your neighbors here in Denmark 🥰
Beautiful as always & never disappoints. Love the colour & dark slate is now the new norm. It pops & stands out. You've put a lot of work into the garden & really coming together 😉. Cheers, your gardening friend from Ontario, Canada 🇨🇦. You guys are a joy to watch. Keep posting
Great video. My sheds and fences (I'm in the UK) are painted black - I love how greenery and terracotta pots look against it. Such a good idea to paint the greenhouse, it looks so much more stylish. I think though that I love the pergola best, I would so enjoy being able to eat outside in all weathers! So jealous of your rocks too!! Take care
I really enjoyed this video, thank you. I garden in Southern England and in our first lockdown my wonderful husband painted all of our fences a dark grey colour - it's made a massive difference and we wish we'd done it earlier! I also have a hedge on one side that I would like to remove but am cautious to do so as hedges are much better for wildlife than fences are. Perhaps you could put up some 'bug hotels' and maybe bird boxes onto your fence - you could paint them black :) - for all the wildlife that need homes, especially in the winter time. Thanks again. :) PS I love cozy too; especially in Northern European winters :)
That's a great idea with the bird boxes and bug hotels painted black! We have those hanging in our tree... and on our brick wall (the one with wisteria) and the other side of the garden is a fence covered in ivy. And i know exactly what you mean with 'wish we had done it sooner!'... a little change makes a HUGE difference 🥰 Greetings from Denmark!
I noticed your wonderful ivy! I really love your planting. I got rid of most of our lawn a few years ago and love the result. Greetings back from England @@perennial-garden 🤩
Surprised that you're surprised that black paint is used in Sweden and Denmark for summer houses. Black attracts heat, so will keep wooden structures warmer.
'Hugge' might translate to 'nook' in English. In Afrikaans it would be 'hoekie'... 😬 The black makes such a difference. Usually a very stark colour, but it really works in your garden space. And looks very stylish! A wise choice indeed. 👏👏👏
Hoekie... that's a very nice looking word... altho I wouldn't dare try and pronounce it! Hygge is a crazy concept here... anything from a thing to a feeling can be 'hygge'. For example, a night at the movies can be hygge. So can a pancake with blueberry syrup 😅. So can a song on the radio. Crazy stuff.
@@perennial-garden 😳🤣 Oh okay. One of those words. You've got to understand the culture to fully understand the word... We've got a couple of those in Afrikaans too! Lekker! 😜
Thanks so much for watching! We plant very very close together. That means that we don't have to do a lot of weeding. We do have to take care of our stone path tho... that takes a bit of effort :)
I LOVE them all! I can't decide, but I really LOVE the black. I would not have thought to use black the way you did, but I'm in LOVE! I'm thinking about using black in my garden (that I don't have yet--I'm in the design phase... just moved in not long ago). What an inspiration. What size is your garden area?
Black is a big 'summer' color here in the nordics -- you see a lot of summer houses painted black, too. Our garden is quite small (another great reason to use black as it kinda disappears) ... it's 260 m2. And it's closed on all sides - a wall in the back, and fences on both sides, our house on the 4th side. Super exciting that you get to plan and start from scratch!
Thank you for watching! And thank you for sharing your concern. 💚You are very correct about paint's toxicity - fortunately, we have no edibles in our garden and we let the building air out for a week after painting before closing it up with the glass again. But you are right, covering the soil is a great tip for anyone looking to do a similar project.
Thanks for watching 🥰. The back of the greenhouse is E, meaning the front door faces W. So the whole greenhouse gets wonderful sun all year long (not so much during our short days in the winter… but otherwise so).
i love the matching color structures, black, and i love all the local information you give. What are the names of the purple flowers in the beginning? im still checkin out all your videos so you might have mentioned it before. lovely and beautiful tour!
Hmmm... are you talking about the salvia virids? We have them in pink and purple-blue in the middle flowerbed. th-cam.com/video/_DTuGYtgZ28/w-d-xo.htmlsi=7ORtE-OW8XyHv9xU Or was it at another place... you can also see some salvia at the very start of the video (in the lower left of the screen).
😅 It’s a raccoon dog. Raccoon dogs have paws like a dog, while a raccoon has dexterous paws that allow it to pick up and eat food. Raccoon dogs are heavier than raccoons, but raccoons are usually longer and taller than raccoon dogs. (And we don’t have raccoons in Denmark - shouldn’t have raccoon dogs, either). Hope that helps 🤓
I feel like things shouldn't be perfect on TH-cam. I come to TH-cam to learn and seeing things that are real help me to believe that I can actually accomplish things myself.
Well then - you’re in the right place! We’re not perfect 😂 and we work hard for the little garden that we have (and we do it without spending a lot of money).
Thanks for watching and for commenting. Greetings from Denmark 🇩🇰
"pretend everything is perfect like it should be on TH-cam" 😂I absolutely LOVE the color of the building, the greenhouse, and the fence-all coordinating and looks really high end. The stone paths are beautiful too! Thank you for sharing, happy gardening!
Thanks so much, you two! We love the black, too.
Love ❤️ your stories as you share your garden!
Thanks for letting us know! Sometimes we think we talk way too much 😅
The black accents in the garden are such a great idea and especially the fence contrasts the green ( and the colors of the blooms) so beautifully 💚 amazing to see the before shot of your garden!
Thanks! Yeah... the black 'frames' everything really well we think. Plus, it kinda disappears in a way... and lets the garden stand out more.
The black is good. I like the pathway material.
Thanks so much! We love the black, too. And the pathway is way better than the grass we had.
🎉🎉🎉🎉...... The paint looks very good in contrast to the plants
I think so too! 🥰 and it was an affordable way to give it all a new life.
Love the rock path and addition of the black paint to the garden.❤😊
Thanks so much! We do, too 🥰. Greetings from Denmark.
The painting of the greenhouse is a stroke of genius. That is something one rarely sees, so congrats on that one 👏
All the ideas are good ones and inspirational. Love love love the middle border. It's always a treat to see one of your videos pop up 🌸🌿😊
That's us... 'genius' 🤣 But really tho, we're super happy with it... a few cans of spray paint (sorry, Earth)... and voila, a new greenhouse!
Aww your hygge space needs little fairy lights and a wall water fountain - I'd be spending all my time in that space! So cute!
Fairy lights for sure! I think I've finally found some (solar powered) that will work with the limited amount of solar we actually get during the non-summer months. Hope so at least 😅
Soooo beautiful!!! Love your garden. And love the black!
I'm extremely jealous of your wisteria pergola!!!!! Super jealous!!!
Thanks so much! 🩷 We love that wisteria when it’s blooming, too.
Love the black paint! I always lean to white paint but the black paint looks so great! We have a wisteria for 34 years now. It's a lot of work to keep it under control but it is magnificent when it blooms! Thanks for the video! 😊
A lot of work, indeed! But those blooms 🩷🩷🩷
What a beautiful garden. Love that you left the horse shoe.
We figured that it had been here long before us.. so we just kept it :)
Love the black
Thanks so much! We do, too - it really blends well and lets the garden pop.
Terrific looking space! Your hard work is evident. What a happy garden.
Thanks so much! And thanks (extra!) for watching 🥰
Flowers are splendidly beautiful and such a variety! ♥️
@@billrobbins5874Thanks so much! ❤
Love the glass house
Thank you!
Beautiful design changes !
My home and all outdoor wooden structures are stained very dark chocolate type brown for the 25 years or so. I've stained all outdoor benches, fencing, trellis's black over the past couple of years and as you, I LOVE it. The gardens and vibrant botanicals have been given an incredible backdrop. In some ways as a theatrical backdrop, with intention the the blossoms and foliage can take "center stage". I find that black also provides a lovely visual calm, a Zen scape of sorts...... Continued delights your family in the beauty of all seasons......
Wonderful !
Smiles to you from a fellow habitat lover that lives at Lake Tahoe
Totally! I bet that dark chocolate looks great. And you're right... it really gives the plants a chance to show off (as they deserve!). Greetings from Denmark to you in Lake Tahoe 🥰
We love all the alterations you've done. You're garden looks stunning because of the hard work and love you put into it. Great job 👍
Thanks for that! We know you guys appreciate your space, too. 🥰That's what makes any little project worth it.
@@perennial-garden You're so right! The garden and plants respond to some TLC and the love we put into it. Take care.
Hi guys, greetings from Ukraine! Love your garden and all the attractions in there. Larse's passion to collect the seeds maybe my favorite)
Greetings back from Denmark! All of that seed collecting is how we can have so many different flowers, too 😜. Thanks so much for watching.
Wow, never heard of a raccoon dog before. Love the black fence and glass house. Good idea painting it to save costs. Also, seriously impressed that fence was built by hand.
Thanks for watching. The Racoon dog is intense, right? And quite large. It's not native to Denmark... so we have to call animal control when it does come (always in early spring).
And yes... that fence was a labor of love with Lars's dad providing the real know-how... and we 3 just doing what we're told. haha
Racoon dogs originate in China. They are farmed for their fur - are kept in very tight wire cages until they are killed. I advise caution if you decide to investigate further - it’s extremely distressing.
@@sallynolan5928 🥺
Sometimes it's the little things which have the most impact.
We had our walkway and steps re paved with slabs 2 years ago. I've always been really disappointed with the raw edge. We top up the woodchip, but naturally it sinks and the edge is revealed again.
This week I bought sone sleepers placed them about 6 inches away from the slab at the same level and back filled the gap with topsoil and planted in creeping thyme.
We can still step out easily onto the garden but now it looks finished. I can't wait until the thyme fills in!
I agree the black elements in the garden look classy and help to make everything else "pop"
Creeping thyme will be beautiful! And you are 100% right... the small things often do have the most impact. Makes everything just feel right again :)
Hi, i love your garden. Great job, what a transformation. 👏 👏
Thanks so much for watching! We've enjoyed the transformation, too 🥰
Beautiful garden! Thanks for sharing!
Thanks so much for watching! Greetings from Denmark.
Well done!
Thanks so much for watching with us!
Slowly making my way through your videos .They are so good that I keep getting distracted from doing my own garden! Black paint definitely makes the plants "pop". Lots of people here in England have started using it. Your Wisteria is great and looks really established. I was surprised to hear how young it is.
AHHH thanks for spending your time with us 🥰. And yes! The 2 wisteria in the back aren't that old... it grows like crazy tho. Not so many flowers this past year... but that will come as it ages.
What a great idea, painting your greenhouse!! I think I might have to take that inspiration and use it on my own greenhouse. It looks so smart in black I love it! Great work guys! Beautiful inspirational garden xx
Do take it 🥰. It made a huge difference to the overall vibe of the garden - and it saved us from buying a new one. We used the cheapest spray paint for metal, too. An easy makeover in just a weekend 🖤.
Your garden looks amazing. You guys did great. Someday I will love to have a little green house like that 😍😍😍
You could've had this one before we painted it! haha. We were not its biggest fans... but now with paint, we like it way better.
I love your garden, congrats for the great job! Happy gardening!
Thanks so much for watching! And for the positive vibes 🥰
I love the black accents! Especially on the greenhouse - itgives it kind of a vintage/ dark academia feeling... I like that! I hope the "prunus laurocerasus" and the "Buddleja davidii" I think I saw in your otherwise lovely garden are not invasive neophytes for denmark! They are in Switzerland and Germany. If they are, please consider replacing them. Otherwise - as I said - wonderful lovely garden with nice ideas for small gardens!
Thank you so much for watching! Those 2 are OK for our area... so we're safe so far. We do have to worry about other invasive types... like Houttuynia cordata that we've been removing for a while now 😅
Greetings to you from your neighbors here in Denmark 🥰
Beautiful as always & never disappoints. Love the colour & dark slate is now the new norm. It pops & stands out. You've put a lot of work into the garden & really coming together 😉. Cheers, your gardening friend from Ontario, Canada 🇨🇦. You guys are a joy to watch. Keep posting
Thanks so much, Jen! Black is the new black ;). A big HEJ back from Denmark!
Great video. My sheds and fences (I'm in the UK) are painted black - I love how greenery and terracotta pots look against it. Such a good idea to paint the greenhouse, it looks so much more stylish. I think though that I love the pergola best, I would so enjoy being able to eat outside in all weathers! So jealous of your rocks too!! Take care
Terracotta pots... you're saying 2 of our favorite words :) They do look better against black, don't they. :)
Greetings from Denmark!
Removing the lawn was a great decision. Im considering doing the same.
We vote yes! :)
Would like to know what did you use to fill in the gaps between your stone bed edge? Dirt, small gravel or other adhesive sand? Thank you
We used crushed stone in between the larger rocks - we have used sand, too. We added the crushed stone in July because we liked the darker look.
I really enjoyed this video, thank you. I garden in Southern England and in our first lockdown my wonderful husband painted all of our fences a dark grey colour - it's made a massive difference and we wish we'd done it earlier! I also have a hedge on one side that I would like to remove but am cautious to do so as hedges are much better for wildlife than fences are. Perhaps you could put up some 'bug hotels' and maybe bird boxes onto your fence - you could paint them black :) - for all the wildlife that need homes, especially in the winter time. Thanks again. :) PS I love cozy too; especially in Northern European winters :)
That's a great idea with the bird boxes and bug hotels painted black! We have those hanging in our tree... and on our brick wall (the one with wisteria) and the other side of the garden is a fence covered in ivy.
And i know exactly what you mean with 'wish we had done it sooner!'... a little change makes a HUGE difference 🥰 Greetings from Denmark!
I noticed your wonderful ivy! I really love your planting. I got rid of most of our lawn a few years ago and love the result. Greetings back from England @@perennial-garden 🤩
What a beautiful garden! Warmhearting regards from Vienna/Austria! :)
Thanks so much for watching! Greetings from Denmark 🥰
@@perennial-garden Many Thanks! :))
Surprised that you're surprised that black paint is used in Sweden and Denmark for summer houses. Black attracts heat, so will keep wooden structures warmer.
Now I feel silly! I totally never thought of that. Thanks so much 🥰. Greetings from Denmark.
I really enjoyed your video. I’m going to subscribe so I can see more. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks so much for watching! And welcome :)
'Hugge' might translate to 'nook' in English. In Afrikaans it would be 'hoekie'... 😬
The black makes such a difference. Usually a very stark colour, but it really works in your garden space. And looks very stylish! A wise choice indeed. 👏👏👏
Hoekie... that's a very nice looking word... altho I wouldn't dare try and pronounce it! Hygge is a crazy concept here... anything from a thing to a feeling can be 'hygge'. For example, a night at the movies can be hygge. So can a pancake with blueberry syrup 😅. So can a song on the radio. Crazy stuff.
@@perennial-garden 😳🤣 Oh okay. One of those words. You've got to understand the culture to fully understand the word... We've got a couple of those in Afrikaans too! Lekker! 😜
@@MarthinB75 AH! I remember hearing lekker all of the time in Cape Town. 😎
Your garden is beautiful, thanks for sharing. I am inspired with all those beauties in your garden. Love your videos. Do you do lots of maintenance?
Thanks so much for watching! We plant very very close together. That means that we don't have to do a lot of weeding. We do have to take care of our stone path tho... that takes a bit of effort :)
I would be honoured to have a raccoon dog visit my yard! Sometimes you are lucky and you don't even know it.
Sadly they just aren't meant to live in yards like ours. But I totally appreciate your love for nature. It's fantastic.
I LOVE them all! I can't decide, but I really LOVE the black. I would not have thought to use black the way you did, but I'm in LOVE! I'm thinking about using black in my garden (that I don't have yet--I'm in the design phase... just moved in not long ago). What an inspiration. What size is your garden area?
Black is a big 'summer' color here in the nordics -- you see a lot of summer houses painted black, too.
Our garden is quite small (another great reason to use black as it kinda disappears) ... it's 260 m2. And it's closed on all sides - a wall in the back, and fences on both sides, our house on the 4th side.
Super exciting that you get to plan and start from scratch!
Love your garden! I am very concerned however to see you spray paint the glasshouse and not cover your soil, paint is very high in toxicity.
Thank you for watching! And thank you for sharing your concern. 💚You are very correct about paint's toxicity - fortunately, we have no edibles in our garden and we let the building air out for a week after painting before closing it up with the glass again. But you are right, covering the soil is a great tip for anyone looking to do a similar project.
Beautiful garden with perfect colour accents. What is the orientation (N,S,W,E) of the greenhouse?
Thanks for watching 🥰. The back of the greenhouse is E, meaning the front door faces W. So the whole greenhouse gets wonderful sun all year long (not so much during our short days in the winter… but otherwise so).
i love the matching color structures, black, and i love all the local information you give. What are the names of the purple flowers in the beginning? im still checkin out all your videos so you might have mentioned it before. lovely and beautiful tour!
Hmmm... are you talking about the salvia virids? We have them in pink and purple-blue in the middle flowerbed. th-cam.com/video/_DTuGYtgZ28/w-d-xo.htmlsi=7ORtE-OW8XyHv9xU Or was it at another place... you can also see some salvia at the very start of the video (in the lower left of the screen).
One of my favourite channel, question for you what is the name of tall pink spike flower thanks
Where did you see it? I wonder if you're talking about the salvia viridis? th-cam.com/video/_DTuGYtgZ28/w-d-xo.htmlsi=79o6c7WcfEARO2dN
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@@victoriaclarke714 That's lythrum -- it's called 'cat tail' in Danish and Loosestrife in English. Hope that helps :)
Love the garden transformation! Amazing 🤩
@@pinetreesnflowers Thanks so much for hanging out with us!
What is the colour? It looks great! But on screen it looks dark blue/grey
Everything is painted black... if you're talking about the paint colors. 🖤
Why the trampoline?
Our son loves jumping on it... even tho it's old 🥰. So we keep it for him. He says he might outgrow it next season... so let's see 😅
Is this a raccoon?😂
😅 It’s a raccoon dog. Raccoon dogs have paws like a dog, while a raccoon has dexterous paws that allow it to pick up and eat food. Raccoon dogs are heavier than raccoons, but raccoons are usually longer and taller than raccoon dogs. (And we don’t have raccoons in Denmark - shouldn’t have raccoon dogs, either). Hope that helps 🤓
what a wonderful video - small changes that make a huge difference 😅 thanks! 💗🌸🪴🌱
Yes it does! Thank you for watching!