A few notes on the hedge: 1) We very much appreciate all of you being concerned about the structural integrity of our beautiful dry-stone retaining wall. In case it wasn't clear, we love our dry-stone walls 😉 2) The plants that we picked are indiginous and non-invasive to our region, and have shallow root systems. Pyracantha roots grow the same width as the width of the branches; as long as the hedge is trimmed the roots will not push out any stones. 3) The top section of the wall is 30 cm wide and we planted 65 cms from the edge. We will maintain the hedge at a width of 60-70 cms at most. 4) The stones we took out are not part of the actual wall, they are part of the rubble that was used to back-fill the wall. As long as the actual anchoring stones are weighed down by something (rubble or soil) the structural integrity should be fine. The reason why the walls are back-filled with stone (and old pieces of brick, roof tile, and even glass) is because that is what's readily available here. 5) There is a dry stone-wall in our village with a fully grown pyracantha hedge on top and those walls are just fine. That hedge is planted even closer to the edge of the wall than ours. In front of our own house there is a hibiscus shrub and a japanese quince that have been here for at least two decades, at the same distance from the edge of the wall, without much problems. The japanese quince does produce a lot of side shoots that do tend to grow in between the stones. So we will not be planting more of those close to stone walls. We hope that clarifies our deciscions (and un-twits a few knickers 😉).
Very helpful! 😂 I wasn’t going to comment anything about the potential roots ruining the wall in case it caused you stress after doing all that work! But glad you already thought of that!
One can only appreciate how you repurpose and use what is at hand. The basket you painted to use as a serving tray is just lovely Isis! I absolutely love your videos. 😊
You gave us a glimpse into another magical world. The snow changed the whole dynamic of your beautiful location. As buildings and mountainsides emerged from the rolling low clouds. The slightest sound magified by the deafening silence. A Robin telling you off at the end, his call so clear in the stillness of the air. ❤️
I always love the slower pace of your vlogs, calming and peaceful. And you definitely have a story tellers mind and a cinematographer's eye. Such fab cinematography 😍
Beautiful….the landscape, but also your photography and the way you put the video together. I really look forward to a new video from you as it’s a real bright spot in my week. The old cucina looks lovely.
As a gardener myself ,I love to see you both tidy up and plant as you go…some renovators would just concentrate on their house only ,and leave the gardens etc until last..it’s going to be amazing🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺
I love your videos mostly because you use such wonderful sound and music, thank you it is very calming down for me, almost meditative, and this very nice ending views are stunning!
You should monitor the growth of your privet and fire thorn plants to make sure the roots don’t push the rocks in the wall out of alignment. The rootball of both plants is usually as wide as the bush branches.
thank you for the tip! there's a house in the village with a pyracantha hedge in an almost identical postition, also on a stone retaining wall. we plan on keeping it tidy and trimmed and it's good to know that the root growth mirrors the above ground growth ❤️
15:00 That call sounds very much like a Red-shouldered Hawk (USA) but that raptor is not found in Italy. I found it interesting how the term “buzzard” is assigned so differently in Italy versus the USA. In Italy it is assigned to a hawk and in the USA it is assigned to vultures. Both hawks and vultures are considered raptors but hawks are hunters of live prey and vultures are carrion eaters.
@@storiesfromthecascina this is from the Wikipedia entry about ‘Buteo buteo’… “DNA testing shows that the common buzzard is fairly closely related to the red-tailed hawk (Buteo jamaicensis) of North America, which occupies a similar ecological niche to the buzzard in that continent. The two species may belong to the same species complex.” The cry of the Red-tailed Hawk is often substituted for all birds of prey sounds in movies. The Red-tailed hawk and Red-shouldered Hawk sound very much the same.
Your work during the cold months will pay off in spades in the future. A little bit every day helps as I do on my property here in the states. Great vlog as always and your drone footage is spectacular. Thank you!
I am loving all the cool things you are finding in the old house. The tray looks great with your redo, and the blue/white table cloth in the old kitchen... please save it from the pipe wrenches and tool grease. I love all that you are doing with the house and the views are simply gorgeous. What an adventure, you are so brave.
Our pleasure! And oooh we know all about noisy neighbours - one of the big pleasures of living here in the hills is that we no longer have to deal with that
lovely way to spend time watching what you two are up to. YOu both are so purposeful and slow-paced, calms this wild Celt down. I noticed the sky showing through the bottom of the metal doors you are insulating. Might need to stop that draft as well. Love that you are building a hedge and love that basket, it's perfect. What a magnificent retreat it is already
We very much appreciate your concern ❤️ We have thought about this before making deciscions: there is a hibiscus and japanese quince in front of our house that have been there for decades at the same distance from the wall (65 cms) and as far as we can tell there's no damage from the roots. in our village there's another house which has a fully grown pyracantha hedge at that same distance (probably even slightly closer) from the edge of a retaining wall too. 💚
Here in the states, privet is not native. It can be quite invasive. I imagine it would not be so bad there if it is native to the area. I love the fragrance when it blooms!
@@marthaollis5049 oh yes, definitely! wild privet is very much native here. i wouldn't think of planting a hedge with invasive plants, that's asking for problems 😅
I just watched another chateau restoration channel and the landscaper said to tear out the privet, that it wasn’t suitable for a hedge. I can’t remember all the reasons though. Sorry.
Such beautiful video this one. And about the Pyracantha. To my experience clipping it as a hedge: you’ll need to remove all the clippings because it takes a long time for the thorns to compost..so if you’d like consider growing it as a solitaire. It can become big and very beautiful with berries. Great shrub for insects and birds too. So lovely to watch your videos ❤
Thank you Christine! It's sometimes hard to see the change when you're in the middle of it - that's part of why we are documenting the journey, so that we can go back in time and see the change too :-)
How beautiful to see the blanket of snow. And I am not fond of winter so I was surprised by my reaction. My Italian family is from the Adriatic coast in the Marches region, so snow there is rare. My mother has told me stories of those rare times when it snowed it drew everyone out of their houses to play before it melted. The way the mist also changes things is magical. You are living in such a beautiful place!
Video bellissimo come sempre 😊. Paesaggi stupendi sia con la neve che senza. Siete veramente bravi. Il rapace che avete visto e sentito é una poiana. ❤️❤️❤️❤️ciao e a presto.
It's a magnificent landscape normally, but that blanket of snow is magical! I hope the winter treats you kindly. You can use the wheelbarrow to lift big rocks, lay it down beside the rock, walk the rock in, then tilt the whole lot up. You can get rocks bigger than you can lift with the extra leverage.
What a beautiful landscape. The snow looks out of a storybook. Perfect for the holidays. I have a stone retaining wall that is being pushed outward with the roots from a privet hedge. Ours was planted about a foot inside the stone wall. Hopefully, the hedge you are planting doesn’t have an aggressive root system. You don’t want your beautiful stones retaining walls to fail.
The channel is beginning to hit its stride. Brilliant drone usage. We look forward to your videos, thanks for the insight into your lives, your property and the region. Really good material.
I like your storytelling and cinematic choices, as well as thoughtful soundtrack that underscores visual elements well. Tell us more about the birds in your region.
Thank you! We're still very much learning about all the bird species - there are many. Some of the ones we've recognized so far are red robins, coal tits, eurasian jay, common buzzard, hoopoe, blackbird, cuckoo, woodpecker and probably a few more I'm forgetting.
@@storiesfromthecascina Greetings from the Pacific Northwest Coast of Canada wherein I live within the Coastal Douglas-fir zone, predominant in southern coastal British Columbia, particularly on eastern Vancouver Island. The climate is "Csb" Cool Mediterranean, and summers experience drought, hence cool mediterranean classification. Arbutus or Shore Pine accompany Douglas-Fir on dry, nutrient-poor to medium sites; Garry Oak occupies some dry rich sites, especially around Victoria, BC, which has a diversity of flowers and shrubs found only here. Other prominent deciduous trees include Bigleaf Maple and Western Flowering Dogwood. I write about these as the background for the birds we have migrating and overwintering here in this milder climate. Happy learning about your biogeoclimatic region's biodiversity!
I am jealous of your beautiful I live in America and ware i live it will be 10 degrees Celsius so we wont get any snow i Love the snow i love to see everything covered in snow it is so beautiful.
Good job with the hedge on top of the stonewall. Guess it will look beautiful. And ned a lot of water when establishing👍🏻 I Wonder, What is the plans for the old kitchen? Take care🙏🏻
I also watch 'Escape To The Dream, Restoring The Chateau'. When restoring the stone walls of the old chateau garden, they struggled tremendously to get rid of the roots that were destroying the walls. You might want to check it out, though I'm sure you have all the information you need already. Hugs from Austria
yes! this year i was a bit late. i took some cuttings in early november but i fear a little for them. definitely going to give it another shot in september!
Lovely video. Will you use the old kitchen as a summer kitchen? It is my dream to have a second kitchen to use for summer produce. Where I live in Southern Illinois USA we call them canning kitchens.
Hi Isis & Bertus,well more steps closer to make a great shape outside the House and the other buildings👍🏻🍀.Keep up the good work.Greetings.Hubertus🙏🏻🇳🇱🇳🇴🙏🏻☮🇮🇹
Have you considered that by planting your shrubs so close to your wall that you may one day in the near future have the roots push those stones out of place on to the road below? I do think the combination of plants you are using will make a nice hedge when mature but I would move it about 1 meter back from the wall.
Hi there! Thanks for thinking along ❤️ We just put together a general comment (it's pinned at the top) about our choice/thought process with the hedge.
11:06 : 'Ceci n'est pas un homme'. 14:57 : Sounds like a buzzard - called 'mewing' - and looks like a buzzard - doing thermals - so probably a buzzard. Glider pilots best friends, since the buzzard points out were the thermals are.
it is a dead end road that leads to a few neighbouring farms. it's very quiet (and in the summer months it's definitely also used by cyclists) but the road being there is one of the reasons we're planting that hedge. 😊
You should not have taken out those bid rocks along the wall. They anchor it in to the ground. Now if you plant a hedge that close to the wall it will fall out when the roots begin to grow. My option only. I love your place.
Hi Ruth! We very much appreciate you being concerned about our beautiful wall. However, the stones we took out are not anchoring stones, they are part of the rubble that was used to back-fill the wall. As long as the actual anchoring stones are weighed down by something (rubble or soil) the structural integrity should be fine. There are several stone walls in our village with a fully grown hedge on top exactly like we did and those walls seem to be just fine. The wall is 30 cm wide at the top and we planted 65 cms from the edge.
yes, we're quite close, about half a kilometre. it's tiny! there's only one restaurant these days. back in the 50s there used to be a post office, a grocers and a tobacco/newspaper shop.
@robertsteele8688 - Read the great comment from @bobhazelton5324 - he explains that in Europe they use the word "buzzard" to refer to a large hawk - "Buteo Buteo" which is related to our red-tailed hawk. ( they use "vulture" for what we call buzzards)
A few notes on the hedge:
1) We very much appreciate all of you being concerned about the structural integrity of our beautiful dry-stone retaining wall. In case it wasn't clear, we love our dry-stone walls 😉
2) The plants that we picked are indiginous and non-invasive to our region, and have shallow root systems. Pyracantha roots grow the same width as the width of the branches; as long as the hedge is trimmed the roots will not push out any stones.
3) The top section of the wall is 30 cm wide and we planted 65 cms from the edge. We will maintain the hedge at a width of 60-70 cms at most.
4) The stones we took out are not part of the actual wall, they are part of the rubble that was used to back-fill the wall. As long as the actual anchoring stones are weighed down by something (rubble or soil) the structural integrity should be fine. The reason why the walls are back-filled with stone (and old pieces of brick, roof tile, and even glass) is because that is what's readily available here.
5) There is a dry stone-wall in our village with a fully grown pyracantha hedge on top and those walls are just fine. That hedge is planted even closer to the edge of the wall than ours. In front of our own house there is a hibiscus shrub and a japanese quince that have been here for at least two decades, at the same distance from the edge of the wall, without much problems. The japanese quince does produce a lot of side shoots that do tend to grow in between the stones. So we will not be planting more of those close to stone walls.
We hope that clarifies our deciscions (and un-twits a few knickers 😉).
Anyone who regularly watches you would know you did your research. I wasn’t worried for a second. 😉
Very helpful! 😂 I wasn’t going to comment anything about the potential roots ruining the wall in case it caused you stress after doing all that work! But glad you already thought of that!
The scene among the hazelnut trees in the snow is magical.
I was going to ask, what are those trees and here is my answer !
One can only appreciate how you repurpose and use what is at hand. The basket you painted to use as a serving tray is just lovely Isis! I absolutely love your videos. 😊
You gave us a glimpse into another magical world. The snow changed the whole dynamic of your beautiful location. As buildings and mountainsides emerged from the rolling low clouds. The slightest sound magified by the deafening silence. A Robin telling you off at the end, his call so clear in the stillness of the air. ❤️
I always love the slower pace of your vlogs, calming and peaceful. And you definitely have a story tellers mind and a cinematographer's eye. Such fab cinematography 😍
Beautiful….the landscape, but also your photography and the way you put the video together. I really look forward to a new video from you as it’s a real bright spot in my week. The old cucina looks lovely.
As a gardener myself ,I love to see you both tidy up and plant as you go…some renovators would just concentrate on their house only ,and leave the gardens etc until last..it’s going to be amazing🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺
Beautifully shot! What a magical place!
Happy Christmas 🎄🐨🎄🐨🎄🐨🎄
Snow in the mountains is the only way to enjoy snow! It's so beautiful, thanks for sharing the beauty with us❣
our thoughts exactly. we have a pretty strong dislike for snow in the city but here it's completely different 🥰
@@storiesfromthecascina ⛄️❤️
I love your videos mostly because you use such wonderful sound and music, thank you it is very calming down for me, almost meditative, and this very nice ending views are stunning!
The snow and fog are magical! Love the echoes across the snowy and foggy countryside.
I like your test patterns on the rusty door.
I like it all!
So many shots in this video are just stunning to look at. Well done! Glad you are making progress. Stay safe and stay warm. Merry Christmas 🎄
I totally agree with you! I am a cancer patiente and this really relaxes me!!! Thank you for sharing to both of you!!!
Thank you Robert! You too!
Hi Yurika, we are so happy to hear that our videos offer you some relief in a way and we pray for your recovery
You should monitor the growth of your privet and fire thorn plants to make sure the roots don’t push the rocks in the wall out of alignment. The rootball of both plants is usually as wide as the bush branches.
thank you for the tip! there's a house in the village with a pyracantha hedge in an almost identical postition, also on a stone retaining wall. we plan on keeping it tidy and trimmed and it's good to know that the root growth mirrors the above ground growth ❤️
Wow the snow and mountain scenery is just spectacular! It’s truly beautiful.
The tray no longer looks like an ugly duckling, it looks fantastic.❤
15:00 That call sounds very much like a Red-shouldered Hawk (USA) but that raptor is not found in Italy.
I found it interesting how the term “buzzard” is assigned so differently in Italy versus the USA. In Italy it is assigned to a hawk and in the USA it is assigned to vultures. Both hawks and vultures are considered raptors but hawks are hunters of live prey and vultures are carrion eaters.
That explains the confusion :-) The latin name of what we here in Europe call a buzzard is Buteo buteo.
@@storiesfromthecascina this is from the Wikipedia entry about ‘Buteo buteo’…
“DNA testing shows that the common buzzard is fairly closely related to the red-tailed hawk (Buteo jamaicensis) of North America, which occupies a similar ecological niche to the buzzard in that continent. The two species may belong to the same species complex.”
The cry of the Red-tailed Hawk is often substituted for all birds of prey sounds in movies. The Red-tailed hawk and Red-shouldered Hawk sound very much the same.
snow time. how much i am enjoying your every episodes
The filming of this video was absolutely beautiful! Thank You!♥️
The hedge planting looks like it was a labour of love lol, those stones sure didn't make it easy but it will look stunning with some greenery.❤
Another beautiful video. Thank you!
Your work during the cold months will pay off in spades in the future. A little bit every day helps as I do on my property here in the states. Great vlog as always and your drone footage is spectacular. Thank you!
I am loving all the cool things you are finding in the old house. The tray looks great with your redo, and the blue/white table cloth in the old kitchen... please save it from the pipe wrenches and tool grease. I love all that you are doing with the house and the views are simply gorgeous. What an adventure, you are so brave.
Nature is wonderful.
The snow turns landscapes into devine sights.
Great content thank you for your time and effort.
Beautiful! Thank you for sharing. The colors in the hedge should be great!
Your channel and video content keeps improving. We really appreciate the hard work and time that you put into each piece.
Keep up the fantastic work 😊
My weekly dose of calm and escape from my noisy neighbors. Thank you so much for those beautiful shots of your first snow.
Our pleasure! And oooh we know all about noisy neighbours - one of the big pleasures of living here in the hills is that we no longer have to deal with that
Bravo! Using existing hedges from your 40 acres to plant a new hedgerow is wonderful. Your re-use of everything you find is very admirable.
lovely way to spend time watching what you two are up to. YOu both are so purposeful and slow-paced, calms this wild Celt down. I noticed the sky showing through the bottom of the metal doors you are insulating. Might need to stop that draft as well. Love that you are building a hedge and love that basket, it's perfect. What a magnificent retreat it is already
Very beautiful everywhere. Painting the metal doors really was bang for your buck.
I hope the roots from that hedge don’t ruin the wall, looks much to close to me
We very much appreciate your concern ❤️ We have thought about this before making deciscions: there is a hibiscus and japanese quince in front of our house that have been there for decades at the same distance from the wall (65 cms) and as far as we can tell there's no damage from the roots. in our village there's another house which has a fully grown pyracantha hedge at that same distance (probably even slightly closer) from the edge of a retaining wall too. 💚
Here in the states, privet is not native. It can be quite invasive. I imagine it would not be so bad there if it is native to the area. I love the fragrance when it blooms!
@@marthaollis5049 oh yes, definitely! wild privet is very much native here. i wouldn't think of planting a hedge with invasive plants, that's asking for problems 😅
I just watched another chateau restoration channel and the landscaper said to tear out the privet, that it wasn’t suitable for a hedge. I can’t remember all the reasons though. Sorry.
Your imagery and visual storytelling are amazing! My husband and I look forward to the days when you’ve shared a new video. You’re our favorites!
So good to hear that you're enjoying our videos so much. Thank you Anne for taking the time to let us know
The misty mountains kind of makes for a moody setting, it looks kind of mystical, slightly eerie. It's beautiful though.❤
It is very dramatic scenery, beautiful.
Such beautiful video this one. And about the Pyracantha. To my experience clipping it as a hedge: you’ll need to remove all the clippings because it takes a long time for the thorns to compost..so if you’d like consider growing it as a solitaire. It can become big and very beautiful with berries. Great shrub for insects and birds too. So lovely to watch your videos ❤
Grandioso! Casa fantastica e paesaggio stupendo. E bello vivere. Stammi bene.
Wow, it's amazing how different it looks, beautiful, but cold.👍
Have been re watching the earlier videos, WOW one can really notice the difference and hard work you have achieved already. Love the basket tray.
Thank you Christine! It's sometimes hard to see the change when you're in the middle of it - that's part of why we are documenting the journey, so that we can go back in time and see the change too :-)
You have a great stone seat to watch the sunrise too. Such a lovely area you have chosen to live in.@@storiesfromthecascina
It looks even more remote in the snow so Magical ❤
How beautiful to see the blanket of snow. And I am not fond of winter so I was surprised by my reaction. My Italian family is from the Adriatic coast in the Marches region, so snow there is rare. My mother has told me stories of those rare times when it snowed it drew everyone out of their houses to play before it melted.
The way the mist also changes things is magical. You are living in such a beautiful place!
Winter has arrived. 🌨😶🌫
Beautifull landscape! Slow and steady will get you where you want. Good luck!
Absolutly love Your ideas for filming. really nice points of view. Want U to know it is noticeable.
Waiting to see whats to come in future.
Thank you so much for taking the time to let us know!
Amazing shots at 11:02. Beautiful scenery, and glad to see you both happy as well. Cheers!
Beautiful film as always
Video bellissimo come sempre 😊. Paesaggi stupendi sia con la neve che senza. Siete veramente bravi. Il rapace che avete visto e sentito é una poiana. ❤️❤️❤️❤️ciao e a presto.
grazie mille per averci insegnato il nome italiano del buteo buteo
È sempre un piacere parlare con voi. 😊
The old cucina is an absolutely fantastic space
Your drone shots are excellent. Love all the work and preservation of old materials in the farm. Wondrous views. Such an idyllic landscape ‼️
Love the drone footage of the farm and the countryside round about! It gives a whole different perspective!
It's a magnificent landscape normally, but that blanket of snow is magical! I hope the winter treats you kindly.
You can use the wheelbarrow to lift big rocks, lay it down beside the rock, walk the rock in, then tilt the whole lot up. You can get rocks bigger than you can lift with the extra leverage.
thanks for the tip geoff! 💪🏻❤️
Wow, that snow shots were fantastic. :)
Amazing pictures! Thank you.
BELLISSIMO Paesaggio, Suggestivo. Voi Bravissimi e laboriosi. SALUTI E Buon Natale.
Grazie e altrettanto ❤
What a beautiful landscape. The snow looks out of a storybook. Perfect for the holidays.
I have a stone retaining wall that is being pushed outward with the roots from a privet hedge. Ours was planted about a foot inside the stone wall. Hopefully, the hedge you are planting doesn’t have an aggressive root system. You don’t want your beautiful stones retaining walls to fail.
Another beautifully filmed video. Thank you
The channel is beginning to hit its stride. Brilliant drone usage.
We look forward to your videos, thanks for the insight into your lives, your property and the region.
Really good material.
Nice artistic filming job on the winter scenes 🩵🤍💙
Thanks! I felt really lucky sending the drone up that morning around sunrise. A magical lamdacape. Well, I feel lucky waking up here any day really.
the first dusting of beauty!🙏
I like your storytelling and cinematic choices, as well as thoughtful soundtrack that underscores visual elements well. Tell us more about the birds in your region.
Thank you! We're still very much learning about all the bird species - there are many. Some of the ones we've recognized so far are red robins, coal tits, eurasian jay, common buzzard, hoopoe, blackbird, cuckoo, woodpecker and probably a few more I'm forgetting.
@@storiesfromthecascina Greetings from the Pacific Northwest Coast of Canada wherein I live within the Coastal Douglas-fir zone, predominant in southern coastal British Columbia, particularly on eastern Vancouver Island. The climate is "Csb" Cool Mediterranean, and summers experience drought, hence cool mediterranean classification. Arbutus or Shore Pine accompany Douglas-Fir on dry, nutrient-poor to medium sites; Garry Oak occupies some dry rich sites, especially around Victoria, BC, which has a diversity of flowers and shrubs found only here. Other prominent deciduous trees include Bigleaf Maple and Western Flowering Dogwood. I write about these as the background for the birds we have migrating and overwintering here in this milder climate. Happy learning about your biogeoclimatic region's biodiversity!
@@carolynknight1520 today we also spotted a swallow :-)
@@storiesfromthecascina Purple Martins wing through our region
we don't have those in europe, what a beautiful bird ❤️
Buon Natale e Felice Nuovo Anno Isis and Bertus🎄🎄
I am jealous of your beautiful I live in America and ware i live it will be 10 degrees Celsius so we wont get any snow i Love the snow i love to see everything covered in snow it is so beautiful.
Good job with the hedge on top of the stonewall. Guess it will look beautiful. And ned a lot of water when establishing👍🏻
I Wonder, What is the plans for the old kitchen?
Take care🙏🏻
I also watch 'Escape To The Dream, Restoring The Chateau'. When restoring the stone walls of the old chateau garden, they struggled tremendously to get rid of the roots that were destroying the walls. You might want to check it out, though I'm sure you have all the information you need already. Hugs from Austria
Handtruck for heavy stones!!🌻Laura
Its very easy to take cuttings from privet in September. They root very easy
yes! this year i was a bit late. i took some cuttings in early november but i fear a little for them. definitely going to give it another shot in september!
Looks amazing with the snow 😊
Lovely video. Will you use the old kitchen as a summer kitchen? It is my dream to have a second kitchen to use for summer produce. Where I live in Southern Illinois USA we call them canning kitchens.
What a beautiful scenery you’re able to be apart of I love how you captured it all 👏🏼👏🏼
Looks like a GREEN Christmas here in 🇨🇦 by comparison. Enjoy your ❄️ because it is beautiful
😮 you can have some of ours! Closest city to me is North Bay, ON and we've been covered in it for weeks!!
Je suis à 100 km de Québec (la ville ) et on cale jusqu’au dessus des genoux !
@@france7678 ouah! Ce n'est pas si profond ici
i love snow, i wish it snowed as much as it did in the past
Your green doors ate beautiful!
You have such a lovely place and the most beautiful scenery. Prachtig.
I’m one of those weirdos who thinks Winter is the best season. lol Enjoyed the cinematography of this episode.😊
It's absolutely stunning there, the snow softens the landscape... magical ✨❄️☃️
Thanks for the video!
The snow is just beautiful!
Hi Isis & Bertus,well more steps closer to make a great shape outside the House and the other buildings👍🏻🍀.Keep up the good work.Greetings.Hubertus🙏🏻🇳🇱🇳🇴🙏🏻☮🇮🇹
🇺🇸Thank You 🙏
Have you considered that by planting your shrubs so close to your wall that you may one day in the near future have the roots push those stones out of place on to the road below? I do think the combination of plants you are using will make a nice hedge when mature but I would move it about 1 meter back from the wall.
Hi there! Thanks for thinking along ❤️ We just put together a general comment (it's pinned at the top) about our choice/thought process with the hedge.
I love the basket i dont think its an ugly ducking at all
Nice Intro with speech!
Show some love and let's get this enchanting channel to 100K subs ASAP!
Bellissime riprese, grazie!
Merry Christmas . This great video
Hello
Your house looked lovely in the snow
Merry Christmas to you both
Eat drink & be Merry
Andrew 🎄💜🎄xx
Happy holidays!
Enjoyed
Bellissimo...
Que hermoso paisaje ❄
11:06 : 'Ceci n'est pas un homme'.
14:57 : Sounds like a buzzard - called 'mewing' - and looks like a buzzard - doing thermals - so probably a buzzard.
Glider pilots best friends, since the buzzard points out were the thermals are.
We were definitely inspired by Magritte when filming these shots
Beutiful!
I am amazed you guys can get a spade into the frozen(?) ground!
Now that would have been hard! The ground wasn't frozen luckily
Is that a wonderfully paved bicycle path next to the future hedge? Surely cannot be a road...
it is a dead end road that leads to a few neighbouring farms. it's very quiet (and in the summer months it's definitely also used by cyclists) but the road being there is one of the reasons we're planting that hedge. 😊
You should not have taken out those bid rocks along the wall. They anchor it in to the ground. Now if you plant a hedge that close to the wall it will fall out when the roots begin to grow. My option only. I love your place.
Hi Ruth! We very much appreciate you being concerned about our beautiful wall. However, the stones we took out are not anchoring stones, they are part of the rubble that was used to back-fill the wall. As long as the actual anchoring stones are weighed down by something (rubble or soil) the structural integrity should be fine. There are several stone walls in our village with a fully grown hedge on top exactly like we did and those walls seem to be just fine. The wall is 30 cm wide at the top and we planted 65 cms from the edge.
Sounds like a buzzard, we often see them in Sussex UK
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You’re closer to the Commune than I imagined. It looks quite small. What businesses are there?
yes, we're quite close, about half a kilometre. it's tiny! there's only one restaurant these days. back in the 50s there used to be a post office, a grocers and a tobacco/newspaper shop.
@@storiesfromthecascina What a shame. It would be so handy to have a grocers, at least. Are there roadside vendors about?
@@storiesfromthecascina Ha! It would be handy having a post office too - no lost couriers 😆
we have a post office in the neigbouring village 8 minutes drive away, but fedex and the italian post don't seem to cooperate very well 🤣
we can buy some fresh produce straight from the farmers in the area, and there's a few neighbouring villages that have small grocers ❤️
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the raptor sounds like a hawk, maybe a perrigrine?....don't think it's a buzzard
@robertsteele8688 - Read the great comment from @bobhazelton5324 - he explains that in Europe they use the word "buzzard" to refer to a large hawk - "Buteo Buteo" which is related to our red-tailed hawk. ( they use "vulture" for what we call buzzards)
Hi, Just wondering do you meet any wild animals around your property?
There's deer, hawks, buzzards, hares, boar, even saw a wolf once.