Lovely and inspiring. Appreciate your showing your whole process. We live in the Pacific Northwest- Oregon The back half acre of our property is wetland and riparian woods. Two large dying white Alders have fallen in slow motion exposing large mossy root balls.. As a result, we have turned those areas into stumperies. Planted native ferns, sedges, and ground cover. Your quarry's gift of stones is amazing. Thefallen limbs are pieces of art. You have done a beautiful job of making it look so natural. Love it all
It’s always sad to lose mature trees but on the plus side it’s provided you with a whole new gardening opportunity you may not have thought of otherwise. It sounds wonderful what you have accomplished. I’m certainly enjoying trying to make something that looks interesting out of decaying wood, it’s fun. Thanks for watching and the lovely comments, very much appreciated 🙏😊
I wasn’t always a fan of shade and woodland gardening but the more I develop the quarry the more I’m coming to love it. Thanks for watching and the lovely comments 🙏😊
Love the "crocodile" Sue. It really does look like one. I could do with some of your fallen leaves as I'm collecting them for leaf mould. Hope you enjoyed your hols. Good to have you back filming.
Thank you Wendy, great holiday but a month is a long time to be away so happy to be back now. The weather has been surprisingly good in the last two weeks so catching up with jobs has been easy. I know I should be thankful for all the leaf mould I can make and I am most days but there’s times when I’m drowning in leaves, and it’s only the beginning. Glad you like the crocodile! Thanks for watching 😊
Welcome back, Sue, the stumpery is really coming along. The hart's tongue fern is a favorite of mine, we have an American native version of it but it is so specific about location that it is very rare here. I love the way you grouped everything around different stumps, it looks so natural and it was fun to see the early work on the whole stumpery. I had seen some of that but never the enormous amount of trash that you had to remove - oh my!
Yes it was a huge undertaking and not a pleasant one to pick up and move someone else’s trash. I don’t know what it’s like for you in the US but it’s very expensive here in the UK to dispose of unwanted possessions other than household waste hence why I think people use their land to dispose of items instead of paying hefty bills to remove it. On the plus side my husband has several very old vintage glass bottles which I have dug up when preparing new planting areas and he’s in the process of researching them. Now that I’ve added more plants I’m keen to continue, maybe spring bulbs next. Thanks as always Lynn 🙏😊
Such a great video. I love your garden. I think the stumpery looks fantastic. Watching you review the ferns you are adding to your space inspired me to add the Heart's Tongue fern to the area in my front garden under a tree. Dry shade is a tough condition to find nice looking plants. Thanks for the inspiration. Happy gardening friend. You are creating a masterpiece.
I agree dry shade is such a struggle to grow plants in and to keep them healthy year on year. I’ve tried so many different plants but recently I’ve gone back to planting more ferns. As for the stumpery I’ve never been particularly artistic but I do love playing around with pieces of wood to try and make something that doesn’t just look like a pile of old discarded offcuts. My husband thought I was mad (he’s probably right as I’ve always got one scheme or another on the go) he just wanted to cut the wood up for the fire, but he’s coming around to the idea now of a stumpery, albeit with raised eyebrows. Thanks for the lovely comments 🙏😊
It really is, to get to the planting stage is exciting. I’m considering adding spring bulbs, can’t make my mind up just yet. I’ll ponder on this for a while. Thanks for watching 🙏😊
The stumpery is really coming along beautifully! I love the ferns and foam flowers and how they'll drape and surround the stumps and nice gnarled wood pieces you found! Some Toadlilies might be fun, too? I hope you had a wonderful holiday and thank as always for the video!
Toadlilies what I great idea, I hadn’t even considered them. I think they would fit perfectly into what I’m trying to achieve in the stumpery. I’ve checked this morning and my local garden centre as several varieties available so watch this space! Thanks for watching and the great suggestion 🙏😊
So happy that you are back with a new video! Glad to hear you had a nice long vacation, you certainly deserve one with all the hard work you put into the quarry gardens. The stumpery is growing beautifully! I enjoyed making ours, but my husband was a fern addict, and I think he planted too many ferns. I know he’s looking down on me, but I’ll try and sneak a few out so that the stumps have more pride of place😉
Lovely to hear from you, hopefully you’ll continue to garden when the time is right for you. I’ve just returned from your beautiful country, the Canadian scenery is right up there with the best I’ve ever seen. Spotted so many tree stumps when we were driving around, if only I had a spare plane to fly them all home 😊. Take care !
thanks so much for your kind words, and yes we do have a very beautiful country, as I’m sure you do also. Would love to visit Great Britain one day. 🇨🇦 🇬🇧
Ferns are a plant I’m coming to love more and more, I’m slowly adding to my collection so I have a good variety. Thanks for watching and sharing your favourites 🙏😊
Go for it! TH-cam and the gardening community is brilliant for recommendations, suggestions and design ideas for all different types of gardens. Thanks for watching and good luck developing your new area 😊
your stumpery inspired me to build my own this summer. I'm in Canada so will have to hold my breath to find out what, of the ferns, sol. seal, and hosta makes it through the winter. Fortunately, my son-in-law is a farmer and always hauling out stumps as he clears pasture, so I had some lovely ones to choose from.
I’m so jealous. I’ve just returned from Canada, my husband and I like to take road trips so we hire a car and drive to wonderful places and Canada is up there with the best experiences we’ve ever had. Why I’m so jealous is not just because you live in a beautiful part of the world but around every bend in the road and in every dry river bed we found tree stumps, in the hundreds. It was a big topic of conversation on our travels, that stump would be perfect for our stumpery, look another one, can we ship them home. Fingers crossed your plants all return next year. Thanks for watching and sharing 🙏😊
I hate calling it Fall - no thanks I don't want to fall - broke legs twice and don't want to fall again! There's a joke that they called it fall because they didn't know how to spell Autumn - which is more than likely true - being the level of education at the time. The garden is beautiful, but it sounds as if you are planning much more.
You’re correct I do have a list of what I’d like to add or create but I’m constantly having to talk myself out of starting something new and just maintain what I’ve done to date. Then again I’m hopeless at taking my own advice so watch this space😊. Thanks for watching 🙏😊
I love a good stumpery! ♥
It’s shaping up at long last. Thank for watching 🙏😊
Thank you stunning ideas for shade gorgeous ferns and plants selection 🙌🥰 from the land down under 🇦🇺🦘🐨
wow so far away, Thank You for watching and taking the time to comment 🙏😊
Lovely and inspiring. Appreciate your showing your whole process. We live in the Pacific Northwest- Oregon The back half acre of our property is wetland and riparian woods. Two large dying white Alders have fallen in slow motion exposing large mossy root balls.. As a result, we have turned those areas into stumperies. Planted native ferns, sedges, and ground cover. Your quarry's gift of stones is amazing. Thefallen limbs are pieces of art. You have done a beautiful job of making it look so natural. Love it all
It’s always sad to lose mature trees but on the plus side it’s provided you with a whole new gardening opportunity you may not have thought of otherwise. It sounds wonderful what you have accomplished. I’m certainly enjoying trying to make something that looks interesting out of decaying wood, it’s fun. Thanks for watching and the lovely comments, very much appreciated 🙏😊
Great to see you back hope you had a lovely holiday . Looking forward to upcoming videos 💐
Thanks so much! 😊
Thanks for sharing! Great to see you again! I absolutely love a woodland garden.
I wasn’t always a fan of shade and woodland gardening but the more I develop the quarry the more I’m coming to love it. Thanks for watching and the lovely comments 🙏😊
What a great way to add texture to a woodland garden.
Hopefully I can continue to find interesting pieces of wood to make the stumpery as realistic as possible. Thanks for watching 🙏😊
Love the "crocodile" Sue. It really does look like one. I could do with some of your fallen leaves as I'm collecting them for leaf mould. Hope you enjoyed your hols. Good to have you back filming.
Thank you Wendy, great holiday but a month is a long time to be away so happy to be back now. The weather has been surprisingly good in the last two weeks so catching up with jobs has been easy. I know I should be thankful for all the leaf mould I can make and I am most days but there’s times when I’m drowning in leaves, and it’s only the beginning. Glad you like the crocodile! Thanks for watching 😊
Welcome back, Sue, the stumpery is really coming along. The hart's tongue fern is a favorite of mine, we have an American native version of it but it is so specific about location that it is very rare here. I love the way you grouped everything around different stumps, it looks so natural and it was fun to see the early work on the whole stumpery. I had seen some of that but never the enormous amount of trash that you had to remove - oh my!
Yes it was a huge undertaking and not a pleasant one to pick up and move someone else’s trash. I don’t know what it’s like for you in the US but it’s very expensive here in the UK to dispose of unwanted possessions other than household waste hence why I think people use their land to dispose of items instead of paying hefty bills to remove it. On the plus side my husband has several very old vintage glass bottles which I have dug up when preparing new planting areas and he’s in the process of researching them. Now that I’ve added more plants I’m keen to continue, maybe spring bulbs next. Thanks as always Lynn 🙏😊
Such a great video. I love your garden. I think the stumpery looks fantastic. Watching you review the ferns you are adding to your space inspired me to add the Heart's Tongue fern to the area in my front garden under a tree. Dry shade is a tough condition to find nice looking plants. Thanks for the inspiration. Happy gardening friend. You are creating a masterpiece.
I agree dry shade is such a struggle to grow plants in and to keep them healthy year on year. I’ve tried so many different plants but recently I’ve gone back to planting more ferns. As for the stumpery I’ve never been particularly artistic but I do love playing around with pieces of wood to try and make something that doesn’t just look like a pile of old discarded offcuts. My husband thought I was mad (he’s probably right as I’ve always got one scheme or another on the go) he just wanted to cut the wood up for the fire, but he’s coming around to the idea now of a stumpery, albeit with raised eyebrows. Thanks for the lovely comments 🙏😊
@@thequarrygardener5578 I think it is fantastic! Truly.
What a great transformation! Must be extremely satisfying to plant here now.
It really is, to get to the planting stage is exciting. I’m considering adding spring bulbs, can’t make my mind up just yet. I’ll ponder on this for a while. Thanks for watching 🙏😊
The stumpery is really coming along beautifully! I love the ferns and foam flowers and how they'll drape and surround the stumps and nice gnarled wood pieces you found! Some Toadlilies might be fun, too? I hope you had a wonderful holiday and thank as always for the video!
Toadlilies what I great idea, I hadn’t even considered them. I think they would fit perfectly into what I’m trying to achieve in the stumpery. I’ve checked this morning and my local garden centre as several varieties available so watch this space! Thanks for watching and the great suggestion 🙏😊
So happy that you are back with a new video! Glad to hear you had a nice long vacation, you certainly deserve one with all the hard work you put into the quarry gardens. The stumpery is growing beautifully! I enjoyed making ours, but my husband was a fern addict, and I think he planted too many ferns. I know he’s looking down on me, but I’ll try and sneak a few out so that the stumps have more pride of place😉
Lovely to hear from you, hopefully you’ll continue to garden when the time is right for you. I’ve just returned from your beautiful country, the Canadian scenery is right up there with the best I’ve ever seen. Spotted so many tree stumps when we were driving around, if only I had a spare plane to fly them all home 😊. Take care !
thanks so much for your kind words, and yes we do have a very beautiful country, as I’m sure you do also. Would love to visit Great Britain one day. 🇨🇦 🇬🇧
Love it!! Beautiful 🤩
Thank you! 😊
I love ferns I have lots of polystichum polybletharum Japanese lace ferns it's my favourite I also have others to I love ferns.
Ferns are a plant I’m coming to love more and more, I’m slowly adding to my collection so I have a good variety. Thanks for watching and
sharing your favourites 🙏😊
Like the word stumpery. I have an area I will develop not quite like yours. But you did give me some ideas.
Go for it! TH-cam and the gardening community is brilliant for recommendations, suggestions and design ideas for all different types of gardens. Thanks for watching and good luck developing your new area 😊
your stumpery inspired me to build my own this summer. I'm in Canada so will have to hold my breath to find out what, of the ferns, sol. seal, and hosta makes it through the winter. Fortunately, my son-in-law is a farmer and always hauling out stumps as he clears pasture, so I had some lovely ones to choose from.
I’m so jealous. I’ve just returned from Canada, my husband and I like to take road trips so we hire a car and drive to wonderful places and Canada is up there with the best experiences we’ve ever had. Why I’m so jealous is not just because you live in a beautiful part of the world but around every bend in the road and in every dry river bed we found tree stumps, in the hundreds. It was a big topic of conversation on our travels, that stump would be perfect for our stumpery, look another one, can we ship them home. Fingers crossed your plants all return next year. Thanks for watching and sharing 🙏😊
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Thank you 🙏😊
I hate calling it Fall - no thanks I don't want to fall - broke legs twice and don't want to fall again! There's a joke that they called it fall because they didn't know how to spell Autumn - which is more than likely true - being the level of education at the time. The garden is beautiful, but it sounds as if you are planning much more.
You’re correct I do have a list of what I’d like to add or create but I’m constantly having to talk myself out of starting something new and just maintain what I’ve done to date. Then again I’m hopeless at taking my own advice so watch this space😊. Thanks for watching 🙏😊