People are always asking me when my garden is going to be done. Never. Some projects will be completed but there is no actual done with the garden. You’re doing a lovely job with your garden. I added a special patio for yoga and meditation. Will feel completely walled by greenery in a few more years.
That sounds amazing and I totally agree!! I said to my 14 yr old “wait till you see the garden this year” She said you say that every year & I told her that’s because it’s never done 😂
i absolutely love this video it feels like a breath of fresh air from the side of the internet i’m coming from. i just started germinating my seeds for the summer! you have a beautiful garden and even more beautiful energy 🫶🏽🌷🌱
It’s amazing how much you have accomplished in truly a short time. I’ve been working on my garden for over 20 years…still learning, still moving plants around. As our friend Monty Don would say, a garden is not a place, it’s a journey. Just gotta love him 😁. Blessings in the New Year!
This is beautiful. Dorset girl here. Sounds like we have the same climate... a mild dusting of snow in the winter! Like you, I feel down in the winter so I love your forward planning. So much hard work. Looks so lovely. You reap what you sow!
This year I am focusing on a healing garden with herbs, plants, and statues that represent positive healing. I am thinking of lights entwined with lavender, rosemary and peace flags. 💗
Thank you for this video. I’m sitting here in Ohio, USA, watching it snow. I’m sooo ready for Spring and this video was a breath of fresh air. It boosted my mood.
We moved house last July and now have a pretty large garden for which I have lots of plans - first time greenhouse owner and it's full to capacity already. Thanks for the inspiration - cottage garden is exactly what I'm looking for.
This past year I have learned how much working in the garden feeds my soul. There is something about it that I can’t quite but into words but I do know that it is something I need to do. It just brings me such joy! Thanks for sharing your journey it’s always so much fun watching how your garden has evolved over time.
Wow! After watching your videos since just before COVID, you've made an amazing transformation in your garden Catherine! Especially this past year, it seems, because everything you had started in previous years seemed to come into it's own, and then the raised beds added so much more definition and interest. Your flowers are gorgeous, the way you've embellished your cement walls with the mirrors and faux brickwork....it's all a visual feast for the eyes. You've given us hours of happiness watching you garden in your lush, green garden in Ireland while we're still bogged down in snow here in Canada most winters. I'm so happy I found your channel! Best wishes for the coming gardening year.
Hello again. I God a new phone quite a while back and lost touch with my old data. So happy Ai found your channel again. I hope youvall are safe and well. God bless you all.from Bakersfield California USA
The last two nights I’ve fallen asleep thinking about what all I want to plant and where. For some reason your videos haven’t been popping up like they used to, but as soon as I saw this one today I immediately clicked to watch. I always love your content, especially the garden ones. I can’t wait to see what all you plant this year!
Ive never been so intrigued in someones journey as i have yours, ive never planted anything before but im going to give it a go for this summer as have moved into a new home and would like to make it more homey and pretty for my family, this video helped ALOT xo
I love this video! Thank you, that's a lot of work to make from beginning to end so much appreciated! Your garden is beautiful!! I love it all! The shed, the greenhouse, your accent! LOL LOVE IT!
Hello my dear. I have watched your garden grow for some time now. I love your greenhouse and all the colors you have in the garden. Just like you, I started my indoor plants during the pandemic. I started the garden many years ago. I love the projects you create since I love projects in the garden also. I enjoy watching. Keep up the great work. 👍👍👍👍
Lots of ideas , lot of hard work You’re doing a lovely job with your garden. t’s amazing how much you have accomplished in a short span. Thank you for sharing .Happy gardening.
Soon the brave snowdrops will appear, peeping through the cold brown earth. So much more than a small, white bell. Courage, purity and hope in such a delicate flower. Happy New Year to you and planet earth 🌳 and indeed to gardeners everywhere. 🌱🍃☘️
Hi! I’ve just pulled up your video again to watch how you did your fake tiling in your greenhouse. AWSOME! Thanks to you, am thinking of doing something similar out on our patio soon as the rain really really goes away! Thanks a million. You’re a very inspiring young lady, best wishes to you. 🙏🏻🇮🇪💐🌻☘️🪷🙋🏼♀️
Hi I've been watching your channel for months from the USA NC. You and your content gives me great joy!! And Just now I was watching when my signed book arrived. Love This!! Have a Beautiful Week. Just wanted to say hello and Thanks for all you do on your channel.
Catherine your beautiful garden has established it's style. Eyes immediately travel to the tall greenhouse surrounded by pots of plants and trees. Raised beds full of colorful flowers waiting to be cut. Beds full of bulbs and tall sunflowers. Fresh mowed grass and big lawn chairs to relax with a cup of tea when your work is done. Where you marvel at the birds and butterflies and turn you face to the warm sun. Light up the greenhouse and have a Blessed and Happy New Year 2024.
What you said about microclimates is so true. I live in a zone 12 but I can only grow really drought-resistant grasses and flowers in the summer months in the back garden. It's such a sun trap, everything bakes.
Oh I'm here for this. I have so much enjoyed watching your garden develop. My favourite episodes were tackling the spider shed, what a transformation! And the greenhouse and raised beds. You have created an oasis that I am so envious of 😁
My garden lesson for this year was to give myself grace throughout this new process, as I just started a flower garden for the first time this past year. I am going to make mistakes, and that’s perfectly fine and part of it!
i live in Texas and we have a wonderful season for wildflowers. I strive for an english style garden but with a western flair. Lots of bluebonnets, paint brushes, mexican hats, and indian blankets to name a few annuals. Lots of salvias/sages, turks caps, etc for perennials. We do well with roses too here.
So nice to see your garden genesis. I moved to the country in central Alberta, Canada 21/2 years ago and started from scratch. I now have some fruit trees, a rock garden, a few veggie beds and a place to add a flower garden. It’s been a lot of work, but is so satisfying. BTW, I’m the one with the 3 orphan kittens about the same age as yours. They’re getting so big now. A real joy.
I put in a small perennial flower garden at the back of my house near my patio. Next year I want to attempt a garden like you have done on the left side of your house. Here's hoping!
Gosh. I thoroughly enjoyed seeing your garden adventure and your interesting and motivating words. Thank you. What I'll do different in 2024 is installing hoops with nets over some of my raised beds ... the rabbits and deer had a grand graze and I hope to enjoy some of the produce this coming year. Thank you again.
Hi Catherine. I started watching your videos when you and Mr C were building the cat castles and I’m completely hooked. Love your topics, especially the garden videos and nature shots and find them really relaxing and useful. I have always gardened and, as long as I’m able always will. The little bulbs starting to poke their heads through the soil as they are now is so welcome after a long dark winter. If you have a minute please tell me what the robin was eating out of the dish on the arm of your chair. I have one visiting and I’d love him to nest.
Catherine, you are so talented and creative with your beautiful home and garden. You've accomplished so much. Thank you for sharing. Wishing you a great New Year and all the best for 2024!!
At 13:05 you are adding some kind of mulch to your pots with sage. It kind of looks like pebbles, but I couldn’t tell for sure. What is that? I LOVE your garden and I LOVE Ireland!
My garden win was pulling out tons of Jimson weed which was taking over (from previous owner), reviving the lawn, which had been destroyed by dogs, and starting a garden, a dream of mine since childhood. I hope to just keep adding more and more because there’s still lots of blank space. I’m mainly aiming for edible perennials and native plants. 💕
I loved your video. You're just adorable and I love your narration as well. I wonder if you have the space for a small witch hazel which blooms very early in the year like January February or maybe a Daphne that blooms twice a year and they smell amazing and are good in bouquets. Or maybe a white Julia which is a great cut shrub and smells awesome with beautiful little white flowers? I loved the frame shot of dusky part of the video with your greenhouse and the lights on in the flowers in front of it. That was so beautiful. Your whole garden is beautiful. I'm sure your dad would be proud of what you have accomplished. And I love your laid back nature will take care of it or has the answer approach. Awesome job!
My garden lesson is about the importance of improving your soil quality by working in compost, coconut peat, vermiculite and then mulching regularly afterwards. I am planning on building a garden pathway with gravel surrounding broken pieces of concrete that are meant to act as stepping stones.
Thank you, Catherine. I really appreciate you making these videos for us. I find them so calming and they help me to relax (working two jobs and consulting for a third). It's the mental escape that I need.
Very quaint. I have come to love shrubs and small trees, so I look for them on sale. You're zone and weather sound a lot like southern middle TN. We are getting a once in a blue moon snow right now (more than 1 inch!) and I'm in heaven!
I’ve been gardening for over 40 years and I’m always changing it,I love the garden in spring and autumn. Our garden is very free draining so in the summer it can look quite tired.❤ your garden is beautiful.
Thank you for sharing your beautiful garden. My garden brings me a lot of joy too ❤❤ My garden wins were my spring bulbs especially the tulips and my roses. I also had three peonies flower for the first time. I had success growing snapdragons and cosmos from seed. My fails were sweet peas and zinnias from seed and my dahlias were not as great this year.
I’m so happy TH-cam recommended this video to me! Your garden is lovely and I enjoyed the video style - felt like chatting with a girlfriend over coffee ☺️ I’m an amateur gardener in zone 6 in the States, but I’m addicted. I love it so much and agree that a garden is never fully “done” (and surprisingly that doesn’t bother me one bit haha!) Keep up the great work 💛
I just now discovered your channel. The word cottage drew me but then I saw Ireland! I’m half Irish but have never been there. Everything about this video was a delight, including your lovely accent! You have created such a sweet garden.
Your garden looks so lovely, flowers do bring joy. I am leaning a little more into potted flowers since watching you garden over the year. My biggest joy this year is learning that I can leave my carrots in the soil, covered by large bags of leaves, under the snow and still pull out the most delicious crunchy snack ever. I garden in zone 5b, New Brunswick, Canada. Laurie
Love love your garden Herring United States we drink more coffee than tea. I would love to sit and enjoy the birds and flowers with a cup of coffee and your beautiful garden. Thank you for the tour. We need more LOL
I liked seeing your guiness crate. Happy days! You know you've made it as a gardener when the birds visit. Like you i relax when i'm out in the garden, which gets more care than my cottage!
what a beautiful garden you have created for yourself, I like you love cottage gardens and until a couple of years ago I was lucky to live in a beautiful cottage in cambridgeshire that had a gorgeous cottage garden which was about 6 times the size of yours sadly I cannot claim to it being miy creation as the majority of it was there when I moved in although I did develop it with my own ideas and was thoroughly bitten by the gardening bug, sadly after a divorce f I now find myself in a small modern house with nothing other than a small courtyard gardenwhich although I have tried to recreate a somewhat nice cottage garden using pots and a raised bed I have I must admitlost to some extent my interest in gardening, my garden now is very small 10 foot by about five foot and is enclosed by brick walls on all sides and gets very little sun, but your video , has inspired me, your comment of every plant in its right place has made me realise to some extent where I have gone wrong, I have been buying and growing perennial plants I grew before which thrived in full sun and I have expected them to flourish in the shade, so you have made me look at reviewing my expectations on what I should plant, I do not grow veg in this 'garden' although in cambridgeshire I had a section which was a thriving vegatable plot, but here I am growing a number of herbs quite successfully, I love your brick paint effects on your greenhouse floor, indeed I love yor greenhose and wall and I must admit I had a little chuckle when you said about throwing garden pests over your wall as my garden in cambridge had a drainage ditch running on one side over a hedge, which ended up as a home for numerous snails collected on nightime sorties, I am sorry if this is a long comment but would add that I intend to watch all of your videos as I love your garden and your obvious love of it too, be proud of your garden it is beautiful
Isn't it WONDERFUL to watch the video (almost in fast forward) because you show a LONG road with the garden in the short video. You've done well - it looks so lovely - a real happy place.
My big win in the garden last year was that, when I needed to relocate my tomato plant plot, I decided not to dig up more grass but simply to create a no-dig bed. It was so easy to do and I felt I was feeding the soil with the decomposing sod instead of ripping it out and losing a lot of soil - and had very few weeds! My hope this year is that the tulip bulbs my daughter brought back from a stop over in Schiphol Airport on her way back to the US come up 🙂
Love your beautiful garden you have created! I live in Northern California Humboldt county by the sea. I love Shasta daisy's, any daisy's, grasses, nandina and succulents. Love playing in the soil. Gods peace 🙂
This was so inspiring, we have a large garden and I try each year to bring more to it but I have no idea what I’m doing, your garden is stunning. Love all of the colour x
Aw thanks sweetheart! Iv often thought of getting a garden designer off Fiverr or one of those sites to see if they could give ideas, but layering on each year seems to help x
You have a beautiful backyard! ❤ What amazes me is that many of the things you plant in Ireland are the same things I plant in the southeastern United States. Truly enjoyed watching your video!!
Love it! 🌼💐🌿💗 Someone told me to make a new garden each year... That it doesn't have to be Done/Complete all at once. That was a great tip and since then my yard and gardens have come to life and grown. AND... It makes it much easier to maintain as well as makes it Exciting to something new to look forward to every year. Thank you for sharing! Much Love and Light coming your way from Western NY USA (Rochester, NY zone 6B) 🐞🌿 Ladybug Lane 🐞🌿 💗🌿💐🐇🌼🐦💐🌿💗
Hi Catherine! I have been glued to your channel since mid-2019. It never grows old to me. I love it more and more. You have taught me so much and inspired me all along the way! I am absolutely my truest self in the garden. I have been working in my garden since I bought my home in 2019. I have been focusing on flowerbed borders and trees, and this year, a new redwood fence. I can not be happier with the way things are coming along. I'm really looking forward to seeing what the new season brings. Today, i purchased two beautiful yellow climbing roses for an arch entering a shade garden / work space. Thank you for sharing, teaching, and inspiring us!
Hello, dear Catherine 👋😊 THANK YOU very much for your videos and creations. for your channel, for the inspirations... THANK YOU for being you. I wish you all the best, especially love, health, happiness. With Love Maťa from Slovakia 👋😊🥂🍾❤️🌼☘️✨
Would love to see a how to clean and disinfect your garden tools and any other tips. Your videos are so helpful not to mention absolutely gorgeous! Absolutely beautiful I love it! Hope you have a beautiful year full of everything you love! 🥰🥰🥰❤️
Hi there I’m creating a garden from scratch here in the hills of Donegal There is no shelter and loads of rushes 😢 It’s quite a challenge but after 3 years I’m finally starting to see progress 😊 Bushes hedges trees and fences and now just got a wee paddock donated by hubby (farmer ) so excited to make an orchard Love you channel ❤
Amazing!! I have been viewing your garden videos since the beginning. You have created such a beautiful space and your love for gardening truly shows. Thank you for being an inspiration!
Oh how lovely! I so enjoyed watching you design and plant your wonderful gardens. I agree, we are NEVER done....as we continue to learn, change and grow! I look forward to more of your beautiful videos!
Hello from California USA. I have only just found your channel and must say you have taken to gardening in the best most natural way! I admire all that you have done, with the beautiful greenhouse the raised beds and the floor and garden wall you " bricked." What a great and creative way to add loads of charm! I will continue to follow your inspiring channel...plus I love to listen to your Irish accent! Happy Spring!
I hope when you watch this video back you are proud of yourself how far you have come….. I am very proud of you how you are more or less self taught… along with listening to Monty Don lol I can’t wait to see it at its peak this year…. Wishing you a happy healthy new year
Your ‘cheat’ for the brick floor inside your greenhouse is genius. 😊
AW, glad you liked it x
I just said the same thing out loud to myself! I am so stealing that!
Can you explain how you created that? I just love it!
I'm wondering of it's waterproof. It looks stunning.
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People are always asking me when my garden is going to be done. Never. Some projects will be completed but there is no actual done with the garden. You’re doing a lovely job with your garden. I added a special patio for yoga and meditation. Will feel completely walled by greenery in a few more years.
I love the sound of your yoga/meditation area in your garden, such a good idea.
That sounds amazing and I totally agree!! I said to my 14 yr old “wait till you see the garden this year” She said you say that every year & I told her that’s because it’s never done 😂
That’s my favorite thing about gardening. It’s constantly growing and shifting and changing. ❤
I recently heard someone say that if you don’t have bugs in your garden, then it’s not part of the ecosystem 🐛
What a fairytale garden.
Two to three years? Only?? Wow!! You have created a beautiful garden paradise in such a short time! 💚
Thank you! Iv been here 10 years, but most of the work in the back was from 2020 x
i absolutely love this video it feels like a breath of fresh air from the side of the internet i’m coming from. i just started germinating my seeds for the summer! you have a beautiful garden and even more beautiful energy 🫶🏽🌷🌱
I'm so glad you enjoyed it xxx
I grew up in the west of Ireland. I've lived in England 36 years now and I still remember the rain and grey clouds. 😆
It’s amazing how much you have accomplished in truly a short time. I’ve been working on my garden for over 20 years…still learning, still moving plants around. As our friend Monty Don would say, a garden is not a place, it’s a journey. Just gotta love him 😁. Blessings in the New Year!
Yes I LOVE that saying, so so true x
This is beautiful. Dorset girl here. Sounds like we have the same climate... a mild dusting of snow in the winter! Like you, I feel down in the winter so I love your forward planning. So much hard work. Looks so lovely. You reap what you sow!
This year I am focusing on a healing garden with herbs, plants, and statues that represent positive healing. I am thinking of lights entwined with lavender, rosemary and peace flags. 💗
Adore this idea 👏🏻🙏🏼
Thank you for this video. I’m sitting here in Ohio, USA, watching it snow. I’m sooo ready for Spring and this video was a breath of fresh air. It boosted my mood.
I love the sponged on bricks, beautiful garden
Transforming a square piece of grass into a dream cottage garden is a labor of love that evolves over time.
Your garden is really beautiful and it is just so enchanting...
I’m back cause I missed your sweetness and your gardening !🙏🌷❤️
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We moved house last July and now have a pretty large garden for which I have lots of plans - first time greenhouse owner and it's full to capacity already. Thanks for the inspiration - cottage garden is exactly what I'm looking for.
Wow! It is so pretty! Your hard work pays off. Flowers and your garden look beautiful!
You’ve worked so hard and your garden is giving back in abundance. Wishing you a Happy New Year Catherine 🥳
Happy new year sweetheart! X
This past year I have learned how much working in the garden feeds my soul. There is something about it that I can’t quite but into words but I do know that it is something I need to do. It just brings me such joy! Thanks for sharing your journey it’s always so much fun watching how your garden has evolved over time.
Yes, it is like medicine for the soul! Happy new year sweetheart x
Wow! After watching your videos since just before COVID, you've made an amazing transformation in your garden Catherine! Especially this past year, it seems, because everything you had started in previous years seemed to come into it's own, and then the raised beds added so much more definition and interest. Your flowers are gorgeous, the way you've embellished your cement walls with the mirrors and faux brickwork....it's all a visual feast for the eyes. You've given us hours of happiness watching you garden in your lush, green garden in Ireland while we're still bogged down in snow here in Canada most winters. I'm so happy I found your channel! Best wishes for the coming gardening year.
Aw thank you so so much for the lovely comment! Im so happy with how it has come along, and excited for the. new year x
Hello again. I God a new phone quite a while back and lost touch with my old data. So happy Ai found your channel again. I hope youvall are safe and well. God bless you all.from Bakersfield California USA
The last two nights I’ve fallen asleep thinking about what all I want to plant and where. For some reason your videos haven’t been popping up like they used to, but as soon as I saw this one today I immediately clicked to watch. I always love your content, especially the garden ones. I can’t wait to see what all you plant this year!
Ive never been so intrigued in someones journey as i have yours, ive never planted anything before but im going to give it a go for this summer as have moved into a new home and would like to make it more homey and pretty for my family, this video helped ALOT xo
Congratulations on the new home x
You are very blessed there.
I hope you never give up.
I very much like this style.
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I love this video! Thank you, that's a lot of work to make from beginning to end so much appreciated! Your garden is beautiful!! I love it all! The shed, the greenhouse, your accent! LOL LOVE IT!
Aw you are so kind x
Hello my dear. I have watched your garden grow for some time now. I love your greenhouse and all the colors you have in the garden. Just like you, I started my indoor plants during the pandemic. I started the garden many years ago. I love the projects you create since I love projects in the garden also. I enjoy watching. Keep up the great work. 👍👍👍👍
Lots of ideas , lot of hard work You’re doing a lovely job with your garden. t’s amazing how much you have accomplished in a short span.
Thank you for sharing .Happy gardening.
this is a wonder podcast. I love her garden. It is beautiful!
Simply SPECTACULAR 💚
PS: I'm with you ~ I only wanted perennial flowers, flowers and flowers in our front & backyard garden 💐
Soon the brave snowdrops will appear, peeping through the cold brown earth. So much more than a small, white bell. Courage, purity and hope in such a delicate flower. Happy New Year to you and planet earth 🌳 and indeed to gardeners everywhere. 🌱🍃☘️
I am so so happy at the thought of the snow drops appearing x
First time visiting this site. Your voice is so soothing and real to listen to while you give us a tour of your garden. Beautiful.
Oh your flower garden is so wonderful 💓💓💓👍
Hi! I’ve just pulled up your video again to watch how you did your fake tiling in your greenhouse. AWSOME! Thanks to you, am thinking of doing something similar out on our patio soon as the rain really really goes away! Thanks a million. You’re a very inspiring young lady, best wishes to you. 🙏🏻🇮🇪💐🌻☘️🪷🙋🏼♀️
Glad it was helpful!, I need to get out and clean mine x
Hi I've been watching your channel for months from the USA NC. You and your content gives me great joy!! And Just now I was watching when my signed book arrived. Love This!! Have a Beautiful Week. Just wanted to say hello and Thanks for all you do on your channel.
I am so so happy it arrived, all the way to NC x
So glad I found your channel! This is exactly the kind of garden I've been looking for to create in my yard. How cute! ❤
Aw glad you found me too x
You are hands down my FAVORITE gardener. 🤍🤍🤍. I bet your Dad is smiling down on you and your beautiful yard. You’ve come a long way Dainty 🤍🤍🤍
Catherine your beautiful garden has established it's style. Eyes immediately travel to the tall greenhouse surrounded by pots of plants and trees. Raised beds full of colorful flowers waiting to be cut. Beds full of bulbs and tall sunflowers. Fresh mowed grass and big lawn chairs to relax with a cup of tea when your work is done. Where you marvel at the birds and butterflies and turn you face to the warm sun. Light up the greenhouse and have a Blessed and Happy New Year 2024.
Awww this is such a sweet comment! Thank you Donna, Happy new year x
What you said about microclimates is so true. I live in a zone 12 but I can only grow really drought-resistant grasses and flowers in the summer months in the back garden. It's such a sun trap, everything bakes.
I am really impressed with your garden full of flowers, they are very diverse and beautiful. 🌷
Thanks for sharing! I feel quite inspired after watching ☺
Oh I'm here for this. I have so much enjoyed watching your garden develop. My favourite episodes were tackling the spider shed, what a transformation! And the greenhouse and raised beds. You have created an oasis that I am so envious of 😁
Haha, remember the spider shed!
My garden lesson for this year was to give myself grace throughout this new process, as I just started a flower garden for the first time this past year. I am going to make mistakes, and that’s perfectly fine and part of it!
Yes, grace, I love this word. Gardening humbles us, Mother Nature is the best teacher x
i live in Texas and we have a wonderful season for wildflowers. I strive for an english style garden but with a western flair. Lots of bluebonnets, paint brushes, mexican hats, and indian blankets to name a few annuals. Lots of salvias/sages, turks caps, etc for perennials. We do well with roses too here.
So nice to see your garden genesis. I moved to the country in central Alberta, Canada 21/2 years ago and started from scratch. I now have some fruit trees, a rock garden, a few veggie beds and a place to add a flower garden. It’s been a lot of work, but is so satisfying. BTW, I’m the one with the 3 orphan kittens about the same age as yours. They’re getting so big now. A real joy.
Your garden sounds amazing!
I put in a small perennial flower garden at the back of my house near my patio. Next year I want to attempt a garden like you have done on the left side of your house. Here's hoping!
You can do it! X Enjoy the process. Happy new year x
Gosh. I thoroughly enjoyed seeing your garden adventure and your interesting and motivating words. Thank you. What I'll do different in 2024 is installing hoops with nets over some of my raised beds ... the rabbits and deer had a grand graze and I hope to enjoy some of the produce this coming year. Thank you again.
It's amazing how much work you've put into your dream garden. You are so resourceful and skillful! I love the result 🙂
Thanks so much! 😊
What a fine green thumb you got! And what a paradise you have made!
Hi Catherine. I started watching your videos when you and Mr C were building the cat castles and I’m completely hooked. Love your topics, especially the garden videos and nature shots and find them really relaxing and useful. I have always gardened and, as long as I’m able always will. The little bulbs starting to poke their heads through the soil as they are now is so welcome after a long dark winter. If you have a minute please tell me what the robin was eating out of the dish on the arm of your chair. I have one visiting and I’d love him to nest.
Oh thank you. He was eating a tiny bit of cheese, but you can’t give too much because of the fat content of cheese x
Catherine, you are so talented and creative with your beautiful home and garden. You've accomplished so much. Thank you for sharing. Wishing you a great New Year and all the best for 2024!!
You are so kind, thank you for your lovely words, Happy new year x x
At 13:05 you are adding some kind of mulch to your pots with sage. It kind of looks like pebbles, but I couldn’t tell for sure. What is that? I LOVE your garden and I LOVE Ireland!
I absolutely loved this video! I really wish I had a yard I could work in to see God's beauty appear!
I enjoy your videos so much!!!
My garden win was pulling out tons of Jimson weed which was taking over (from previous owner), reviving the lawn, which had been destroyed by dogs, and starting a garden, a dream of mine since childhood. I hope to just keep adding more and more because there’s still lots of blank space. I’m mainly aiming for edible perennials and native plants. 💕
I loved your video. You're just adorable and I love your narration as well. I wonder if you have the space for a small witch hazel which blooms very early in the year like January February or maybe a Daphne that blooms twice a year and they smell amazing and are good in bouquets. Or maybe a white Julia which is a great cut shrub and smells awesome with beautiful little white flowers? I loved the frame shot of dusky part of the video with your greenhouse and the lights on in the flowers in front of it. That was so beautiful. Your whole garden is beautiful. I'm sure your dad would be proud of what you have accomplished. And I love your laid back nature will take care of it or has the answer approach. Awesome job!
This garden is stunning! This would be my goals if I ever got my own house :)
That is so kind of you x
Oh my goodness, how beautiful your flower garden is!
So beautiful! I dream of a garden like this!
My garden lesson is about the importance of improving your soil quality by working in compost, coconut peat, vermiculite and then mulching regularly afterwards.
I am planning on building a garden pathway with gravel surrounding broken pieces of concrete that are meant to act as stepping stones.
OMG, how cozy and how dreamy....
Thank you, Catherine. I really appreciate you making these videos for us. I find them so calming and they help me to relax (working two jobs and consulting for a third). It's the mental escape that I need.
Very quaint. I have come to love shrubs and small trees, so I look for them on sale. You're zone and weather sound a lot like southern middle TN. We are getting a once in a blue moon snow right now (more than 1 inch!) and I'm in heaven!
I’ve been gardening for over 40 years and I’m always changing it,I love the garden in spring and autumn. Our garden is very free draining so in the summer it can look quite tired.❤ your garden is beautiful.
Love it, I feel like we have to change to keep up with the changes in the climate. Would some herbs like the free draining areas in your garden?
Thank you for sharing your beautiful garden. My garden brings me a lot of joy too ❤❤ My garden wins were my spring bulbs especially the tulips and my roses. I also had three peonies flower for the first time. I had success growing snapdragons and cosmos from seed. My fails were sweet peas and zinnias from seed and my dahlias were not as great this year.
I LOVE seeing your garden evolving over the years. I’m currently working on a cottage style garden in the front of my house.
I’m so happy TH-cam recommended this video to me! Your garden is lovely and I enjoyed the video style - felt like chatting with a girlfriend over coffee ☺️ I’m an amateur gardener in zone 6 in the States, but I’m addicted. I love it so much and agree that a garden is never fully “done” (and surprisingly that doesn’t bother me one bit haha!) Keep up the great work 💛
Aw I am so glad you found me x
I just now discovered your channel. The word cottage drew me but then I saw Ireland! I’m half Irish but have never been there.
Everything about this video was a delight, including your lovely accent! You have created such a sweet garden.
Welcome!! so happy you found my channel x
Your garden looks so lovely, flowers do bring joy. I am leaning a little more into potted flowers since watching you garden over the year. My biggest joy this year is learning that I can leave my carrots in the soil, covered by large bags of leaves, under the snow and still pull out the most delicious crunchy snack ever. I garden in zone 5b, New Brunswick, Canada. Laurie
Aw I love that you can shop from the garden! Its the best feeling ever
Oh! You have to be so proud of yourself, it’s a lovely journey, a life project.
Oh this was so wonderful. I can’t wait for February. That is when I get serious about my garden plans.
Yes, me too. I ordered some seeds when I was bored over Christmas x
Your garden looks amazing since you first began working on it. Makes me look forward to Spring.
Spring is finally round the corner 😍😍
You have a very floriferous garden I loved your brick stencil. That was so cool.
Love love your garden Herring United States we drink more coffee than tea. I would love to sit and enjoy the birds and flowers with a cup of coffee and your beautiful garden. Thank you for the tour. We need more LOL
I've been here since the bare patch of grass...slowly building your own magical space has been so inspiring to watch!
I liked seeing your guiness crate. Happy days! You know you've made it as a gardener when the birds visit. Like you i relax when i'm out in the garden, which gets more care than my cottage!
what a beautiful garden you have created for yourself, I like you love cottage gardens and until a couple of years ago I was lucky to live in a beautiful cottage in cambridgeshire that had a gorgeous cottage garden which was about 6 times the size of yours sadly I cannot claim to it being miy creation as the majority of it was there when I moved in although I did develop it with my own ideas and was thoroughly bitten by the gardening bug, sadly after a divorce f I now find myself in a small modern house with nothing other than a small courtyard gardenwhich although I have tried to recreate a somewhat nice cottage garden using pots and a raised bed I have I must admitlost to some extent my interest in gardening, my garden now is very small 10 foot by about five foot and is enclosed by brick walls on all sides and gets very little sun, but your video , has inspired me, your comment of every plant in its right place has made me realise to some extent where I have gone wrong, I have been buying and growing perennial plants I grew before which thrived in full sun and I have expected them to flourish in the shade, so you have made me look at reviewing my expectations on what I should plant, I do not grow veg in this 'garden' although in cambridgeshire I had a section which was a thriving vegatable plot, but here I am growing a number of herbs quite successfully, I love your brick paint effects on your greenhouse floor, indeed I love yor greenhose and wall and I must admit I had a little chuckle when you said about throwing garden pests over your wall as my garden in cambridge had a drainage ditch running on one side over a hedge, which ended up as a home for numerous snails collected on nightime sorties, I am sorry if this is a long comment but would add that I intend to watch all of your videos as I love your garden and your obvious love of it too, be proud of your garden it is beautiful
Delightful!!!!! I found you several years ago. Your home is enchanting from the inside out. You have learned so much!
Thank you! 😊
Isn't it WONDERFUL to watch the video (almost in fast forward) because you show a LONG road with the garden in the short video. You've done well - it looks so lovely - a real happy place.
It hard to believe your garden has only been growing 2 or 3 years! You’ve done a brilliant job with it! Thanks for sharing your tips.
So nice of you, thank you! Happy new year x
My big win in the garden last year was that, when I needed to relocate my tomato plant plot, I decided not to dig up more grass but simply to create a no-dig bed. It was so easy to do and I felt I was feeding the soil with the decomposing sod instead of ripping it out and losing a lot of soil - and had very few weeds! My hope this year is that the tulip bulbs my daughter brought back from a stop over in Schiphol Airport on her way back to the US come up 🙂
Can’t wait to see what you doing this next year🤩
Love your beautiful garden you have created! I live in Northern California Humboldt county by the sea. I love Shasta daisy's, any daisy's, grasses, nandina and succulents. Love playing in the soil. Gods peace 🙂
This was so inspiring, we have a large garden and I try each year to bring more to it but I have no idea what I’m doing, your garden is stunning. Love all of the colour x
Aw thanks sweetheart! Iv often thought of getting a garden designer off Fiverr or one of those sites to see if they could give ideas, but layering on each year seems to help x
You have a beautiful backyard! ❤ What amazes me is that many of the things you plant in Ireland are the same things I plant in the southeastern United States. Truly enjoyed watching your video!!
So beautiful !!! You are inspiring 🩷💜💖💚🍃
Love it! 🌼💐🌿💗
Someone told me to make a new garden each year... That it doesn't have to be Done/Complete all at once. That was a great tip and since then my yard and gardens have come to life and grown. AND... It makes it much easier to maintain as well as makes it Exciting to something new to look forward to every year.
Thank you for sharing!
Much Love and Light coming your way from Western NY USA (Rochester, NY zone 6B)
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Beautiful! Thank you so much for sharing your garden. Your right a Garden is never done. still working after 25 years.
Hi Catherine! I have been glued to your channel since mid-2019. It never grows old to me. I love it more and more. You have taught me so much and inspired me all along the way! I am absolutely my truest self in the garden. I have been working in my garden since I bought my home in 2019. I have been focusing on flowerbed borders and trees, and this year, a new redwood fence. I can not be happier with the way things are coming along. I'm really looking forward to seeing what the new season brings. Today, i purchased two beautiful yellow climbing roses for an arch entering a shade garden / work space. Thank you for sharing, teaching, and inspiring us!
Aw your so kind, thank you for the lovely kind words! Congratulations on your garden, may it grow year to year abundantly x
Hello, dear Catherine 👋😊 THANK YOU very much for your videos and creations. for your channel, for the inspirations... THANK YOU for being you. I wish you all the best, especially love, health, happiness. With Love Maťa from Slovakia 👋😊🥂🍾❤️🌼☘️✨
Would love to see a how to clean and disinfect your garden tools and any other tips. Your videos are so helpful not to mention absolutely gorgeous! Absolutely beautiful I love it! Hope you have a beautiful year full of everything you love! 🥰🥰🥰❤️
Hi there
I’m creating a garden from scratch here in the hills of Donegal
There is no shelter and loads of rushes 😢
It’s quite a challenge but after 3 years I’m finally starting to see progress 😊
Bushes hedges trees and fences and now just got a wee paddock donated by hubby (farmer ) so excited to make an orchard
Love you channel ❤
Aw well done! Its not easy up there, you always get the harsh weather and storms! Great move adding lots of shrubs/trees etc.
Amazing!! I have been viewing your garden videos since the beginning. You have created such a beautiful space and your love for gardening truly shows. Thank you for being an inspiration!
You have created your own little haven. It’s beautiful 😊
Thank you! Happy new year x x
Oh how lovely! I so enjoyed watching you design and plant your wonderful gardens. I agree, we are NEVER done....as we continue to learn, change and grow! I look forward to more of your beautiful videos!
Think this is my favourite of your vlogs Catherine
Hello from California USA. I have only just found your channel and must say you have taken to gardening in the best most natural way! I admire all that you have done, with the beautiful greenhouse the raised beds and the floor and garden wall you " bricked." What a great and creative way to add loads of charm! I will continue to follow your inspiring channel...plus I love to listen to your Irish accent! Happy Spring!
Oh thank you s much for such a kind and encouraging comment! X
I hope when you watch this video back you are proud of yourself how far you have come….. I am very proud of you how you are more or less self taught… along with listening to Monty Don lol I can’t wait to see it at its peak this year…. Wishing you a happy healthy new year
I enjoyed your video very much your like a breath of fresh air thank you for showing up and sharing have a great week ❤.
Just found "you" so enjoyed.Summer here in n.z so lots of color to enjoy! ❤
Welcome!! glad you found me x
Just came across your video. Beautiful work! Btw, I love your Irish accent 😊. We loved traveling thru Ireland..absolutely beautiful country!
Thanks so much! 😊 glad you found me x
Lovely to see your garden and all the clever ways you make it all happen - the true spirit of gardening!
Thank you kindly x