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46 Comments
Sarah!!! Don't give up on your plants yet, especially the hoststa ,they take awhile to come up in spring. I am toying to come up with an area to put a greenhouse, because I have always wanted one. So thank you for the inspiration. yours is adorable!
This gives me so much hope for spring as we wake up to zero degrees and snow for yet another day! Can't wait to get into the garden again!
Oh so jealous. We still have frigid temps and lots of snow.🇨🇦❄️ I have a love hate relationship with gardening. We live on south facing waterfront property and the sun and wind are pretty intense at times. It is always trial and error with plants. I did an experiment this year , I bought grow lamps and brought my geraniums into our basement . I know you can take them out of the dirt and put them in a paper bag to overwinter them. I wanted to try this method. So far the are looking good. I have them in my gym room so I get a reminder that spring is coming. 😂. I love your green house and raised beds.❤️🌺🌸
David Austin climbing Rose will be perfect for a trellis or arch over your garden. I have a David Austin Rose. He is English and has a place in Tyler, Texas. I have an English garden .. let’s say been working on an English garden for many, many years. So it would perfect for you!! Also, I have three knockout roses. You can get those at Lowe’s. They are disease resistant and they do wonderful. One of them is a shrub rose. That’s 3‘ x 4‘ yellow. It is gorgeous. They grow fairly quickly.. they make great cutting roses.❤
Your hostas will come back. But make sure you know which kind of hosta you have and you only cut it back 1/3 at the end of the season. Some have to be cut in the fall and others are not cut to spring. ❤
Love that. Must nuture. I've been missing that!
Snap seed is an app that identifies plants. It's super helpful
We are planting a garden again. I have also ventured into the flowers and bushes. We have a black walnut fully grown and other trees all around our cottage. A big bed of already established plants on the front side of the attached sun room. I love gardening and might even pick up some of the flowers you suggested as new additions. I love tulips. But when they are gone, it leaves a void, so there is where I will put the new ones surrounding those. That is the side porch area. I do use boxes for my plants made out of old wood already here when we moved here four years ago. I am not completely finished with the old meat smoke house, but I did install the paver porch last year and the flower box that is on the side of the porch area. Happy gardening! ❤ Great video❣️
Your video was so inspiring … For several years now I have planted sweet peas and jack-be-little pumpkins on the tuteurs we made using your designs … a highlight of our garden … I'm introducing purple and pink hollyhocks along the background fence this year … fingers crossed the winter sowing of the seeds is successful … Thanks for all the inspiration … your style is just what I need ~~
Hi Sarah. You brought tears to my eyes at the end of this video…when you said “playing in the dirt, the world was simple and I felt young again”…if that’s not incentive to get outside in the garden then I don’t know what else is:):). Happy gardening!:)🥰
Adoro el campo,la jardinería….por eso aspiro a salir de la Ciudad…
Tengo plantas y árboles aquí,están cuidadas?😅…por los gatos y pájaros 🥴🌿🦋
"There is a unique kind of magic in cozy moments that cannot be found anywhere else. It’s in the gentle warmth of a blanket, the soft light spilling from a lamp, the quiet rustle of leaves outside, or the comforting aroma of something homemade in the kitchen. These moments invite us to slow down, breathe deeply, and simply be present. They remind us that life’s greatest treasures are not in grand achievements or distant dreams, but in the little things that make our hearts feel safe, loved, and at peace. Cozy moments are a quiet celebration of life itself, teaching us gratitude, patience, and the beauty of slowing down to enjoy the world around us. Cherish them, for they are the gentle threads that weave comfort, happiness, and warmth into the fabric of our souls."
I am adding raised beds to my garden, berry bushes and fruit trees. I'm also adding more arches with climbing flowers, they bring me so much joy!
I call my Helebors the Shy flowers. They never look up. I grow daisy's. The large Alaskan daisy's all around the edge of my small garden. Love only growing White flowering plants in my old age.😅🤍not a lot of color. Growing a lot of Japanese maple trees and a few conifers 🌿🙌🤍 I enjoyed this video. Thanks for sharing.
Your hellebores are indeed perennials and thrive in the shade. They will bring you joy for many years. Just trim off the dead foliage after the winter/ spring bloom.They would do well along your "French path" that you created last year.
I have a sweet kitchen garden with a picket fence and arbor at the gate my hubby built for me. I have raised beds and flower beds inside and outside the fence. I’ll be growing a variety of veggies, flowers and fruits. Elderberries, blueberries and strawberries; tomatoes, cucumbers, brassicas, lettuce, carrots, and more. I can hardly wait! We still have almost a foot of snow…😢
Oh thank you for this beautiful, calming video. It's bringing me hope for spring. We however, are dealing 30 below weather, 6 ft snowbanks and more snow coming this week. But I'm warm and hopeful!
With love from Vermont 😊
Hellebore is toxic to dogs. Great video Sarah! I love your esthetic. I also love to garden and when I saw hellebore plants I was ready to purchase some for my garden. I didn't however as they are toxic to dogs, and we have one that is always in the garden with us. Keep an eye on your dog around those plants!
Looking forward to more updates in your garden.
Greetings from Edmonton Alberta Canada
PS I love your dogs' antics and fun personality!!
Eventually, Sarah, if you could remove the grass around your four beds and put Pea gravel with your pretty pot in the middle it’ll definitely look like French garden.! ❤
So beautiful! I am getting so excited to get back to gardening! It is probably one of the most peaceful things to do. Even if it's pulling weeds. Cannot wait to play in the dirt.
Like you I grew up with the Secret Garden and it's my dream that my garden looks as much like that one as I can given we live in the suburbs.
Dogs really start maturing at about 3 yrs old, just give her a little more time and patience! Also, deer and slugs love hostas. I have trouble with mine that are close to our woods. I loved the video, your green house and garden beds are nice. I am a little jealous because I live in Maine and we still have very cold temperatures and a foot and a half of snow!
I wish I could be gardening but it is way too cold here in the Great Lakes. I have a green house and love my time in it. Playing in the dirt is my kind of fun. I am in the process of making my Secret Garden which will be filled with perennials. My problem are the many deer in the area. We are going to have to fence or we will have nothing left. Enjoyed this.
My husband just built my first raised bed garden box last fall and another one is coming when it warms up a bit. Thanks for the ideas for plantings and will be ordering your French Tuteur plans to build one for each of them. I just turned 70 early this year and I'm feeling the need to nurture! Thanks for the inspiration you always share!
Sarah, a just perfect video for those of us who are having a mild winter. I do my walkabout around my small backyard garden areas to see how my babies are doing. Are they dormant, how are the hellebores blooming, have I lost any plants yet, etc. It's rather exciting this time of year. I feel a faint touch of spring in the air. Every year my best gardening friend and I say, oh, I am downsizing my planting this year. 😅 Then we begin our annual nursery walk and smile at the beauty of the flowers and greenery!
Hello – I have been researching roses myself and I heard if you want the rose to climb up and over the door of your greenhouse you need a rambler not a climber. Climbers go straight up and ramblers will grow up and over.
Gardening and Nala, great vlog! Our ground will be frozen for another month or two, but I have been dreaming, and looking through my seeds. I will sprinkle some poppies, larkspur and bachelor buttons in beds soon, as the rain and snow helps them germinate. I bought some perrenial geraniums at an arboritum sale, and hope to buy more to plant with my roses.They were purple blue and bloomed all summer.
Planting the gifts he has given nothing better in All of them . Thank you for sharing.
Dahlias and zinnias and as always feeding the birds❤
We still have 8-10” of snow!!!!❄️
I’m so jealous!!! ❤
Love your Ridgeback puppy.
Every time February rolls around I get that urge to start looking at plant catalogues and watching garening videos to get additional inspiration. I live in northern Indiana and the ground is still frozen covered with several layers of snow and spring seems like a much too long way off. However, I am already planning that as soon as it all receeds to take inventory of my hill of plants and pull out the ones not flourishng and replant. We are going to expand our veg garden as well and I can't wait to inhale the fresh scent of earth, water, and plants.
Your greenhouse is so pretty, Sarah! While a climbing rose over the greenhouse would be lovely, it will also shade what's growing inside. Might not be great for your little seedling babies. 🌹
So cute, what a handy husband you have🥰 May I suggest a reclaimed brick area outside the front of your greenhouse ( FB marketplace again! ) for your potted plants to go on, would finish the area a treat and carry on the rustic vibe x
Pop some cut up bin/trash bag pieces under your seedlings in the wine crates to help prolong the life of your crates, be a shame for them to rot x
I have a sister and brother-in-law that live in NW Washington. I'm always so jealous when she sends me pictures of the flowers poking out of the ground and the green grass. I can't wait to see your lovely gardens this summer.
I am a peony sunflower and daisy girl ! Love to go to our local tulip field here in VA called Burnside Farms. I just feel like they don’t bloom well here at my house so I go crazy there. I also really enjoy the Christmas rose they are beautiful! For blooming Trees give me a magnolia and crepe Myrtle. ❤
Put clay pots upside down over your corner posts to add to the look.
One of my favorite videos you have posted , Thank You for sharing
I’m in Alabama 7b/8a, I have 11 different kinds of Lenten Rose. Some started blooming in December. We plant them in the shade here. I buy at least 1new one every year (I bought 3 yesterday 😉). Happy gardening 🥰
I've owned AR for decades absolutely old word in your garden with them, of course my garden is gracefully filled with some old roses shrubs too they're a sight when in full bloom.
Had to laugh and fight being envious 😁. It is still 19 degrees here! But, yes, I can at least start planning my flowers.
One of the most exciting, yet challenging things about gardening is that it's a multi-level planning and design process –all the things you mentioned make it a 'beyond 3-D' sort of thing. Not just colors and bloom time, but sun and water needs, what 'plays nice' together and how the burgeoning beds will look in terms of "layering" and contrast of foliage type and color, not to mention staggering bloom times and on and on and on. I think that's what's so fascinating about it –you can be always learning, always growing and improving as a designer and gardener.
Love what you're doing and will enjoy watching it continue!
Nothing better than playing in the dirt! I was a little worried, you kept referring to Nala and you weren't mentioning your other dog. I was so happy to see him watching over things near the end of your video. Take care.
lovely, I love the greenhouse and any thing garden
I loved those gloves and that apron so much, I went looking for them on your Amazon products channel. (Thought they would make great Valentine's Day gifts to share with my husband. wink) Anyway, they weren't there. Could you share where you got them??? 😀 PS LOVED this video and wonder if my nearby wineries would let me have their wood wine boxes or if they just throw them away.
Weed barrier is really bad for the environment