You had lots of question about my video on How to Design a Garden when you’re not a garden designer, so I’m answering several of them here.
Original video: https://youtu.be/B9xLeqDw8w0
App I use to design gardens: https://concepts.app/en/
The botanical prints behind me are vintage Jung-Koch-Quentell charts that I got from Etsy several years ago.
Garden styles blog posts: All are linked in this post: https://www.theimpatientgardener.com/even-more-garden-styles/
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Deer repellent:
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Garden design books:
Planting the Natural Garden: Piet Oudoulf, Henk Gerritsen https://amzn.to/36bLafM
Deer-resistant design: Karen Chapman https://amzn.to/2Radlrf
Encyclopedia of Landscape Design https://amzn.to/30BcF1j
My drone (DJI Mavic Mini): https://amzn.to/38iHDha
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My name is Erin and I love sharing inspiration and information with real-life gardeners. I live and garden in southeastern Wisconsin, zone 5.
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I made a nutsery bed for good deals. Plants do well transplantrd
Love these videos!
I need more garden design ideas and more q & a. I love your videos!!
Thank you for suggesting a few design books! Who knew there are so many choices for a "natural" garden that are design-worthy that are not deer delicacies…
Blab away! I bet all of us can relate to the struggles of decision making in the garden. I have area in my garden that does not work. Itās so frustrating to try to come up with a solution. I wish I had a heart to rip it all out….
thanks for the first video and this one, too… i'm looking at some hard work and muscle aches myself this spring for some areas in my yard, so i will follow your adventures with interest!
Erin – again really valuable information. Thanks.
Hi Erin – keep up the Q&A! By the way, can you share the name of the deer repellent again? Iām using one that smells like eggs! š¤¢
How do you deal with ticks!? I live in the NYC/NJ area ā so no deers but last year we had a TON š« of ticks everywhere. I even woke up one morning with one latched on my arm!!! š¤¢ I stayed away from the garden last year but Iām itching to get back but ticks terrify me ever since I went away for my third grade summer camp and learned about Lyme disease?!
Loved this Erin..so looking forward to more vids
Hi Erin thanks for this video series on starting a new landscape, but most of all the help with DEER! I was laughing so hard and shaking my head "thats" me when you were talking about thinking the deer are gone.
Can't wait to see how this new area comes along.
I soooo liked to hear about deer repellent, unfortunately I had to learn the hard way – last winter I started clearing an overgrown area (wooded and never been worked on, we had to remove stumps and cut down a lot of sprouting trees and all kinds of brush) Then I bought a lot of hosta plants, planted them and was looking forward to watch them grow… Then one day I woke up to a lot of little stubby things instead of hostas, all leaves were eaten and looked so sad… That's when I had to learn very quickly about repellent, but by then it was unfortunately too late and I did not get to see them hosta grow š So this year I will have to start spraying repellent (deer or rabbit or any other animal) I do enjoy your videos so much, and look forward to new ones about you designing new garden and all the work what goes in to it.
Thank you so much for answering my question! I am going to sketch out my garden and start making plans. I asked my question because I'm starting from scratch at a new house. The builders put some plants in, but there is no real design so I'm going to start from scratch. I get awesome ideas from books that have actual landscape plans in them that are good for my zone. Maybe that other person who just moved to a new house/new zone would benefit from picking up a book like that. Also going to local garden centers in always the best way to learn what works well in a new zone. Thanks so much!
Hey thanks for answering my question about the book! I can't believe you almost didn't post that last video!!! It was SO HELPFUL!
I think it'd be great to bring us along on your rough area you're redoing, even though it is daunting to start. We all have those issues and it helps to see the 'real' process. Maybe us watching along will even be a motivating factor for you, lol! I know it would be for me if thousands of people were watching me… yikes, how scary! We love your real life approach and ideas!
I think you're right on about getting the deer repelant out early. That late winter-early spring time is when there is the least amount of food in the wild for the deer so they really start looking 'elsewhere',… ahem. =D It's one of the main reasons I'm planting more panicle hydrangeas… our deer population eat the tips off my Vanilla Strawberry hydrangea every year and it still blooms faithfully. Plus, I don't have to do a ton of maintenance on it, another great benefit as I get older!
Keep up the awesome content! You're doing great!
P.S. Love the Q and A format, I think you should do it more often!
I just discovered your videos recently. I'm in central Alabama, technically an 8a I believe, but we never know what Mother Nature will throw ourĀ way here.Ā A little bit about me-I love to travel when I'm not out saving lives (I work full-time as aĀ paramedic) I've traveled all over the world and loved every minute of it. I spent 2 years trying to decide what to do with a very large, square plot of land. I love English cottage style, French countryside, Japanese and Italian features, etc…I woke from a dream exactly one year ago this week. I WOULD DO THEM ALL!!!…I dont know what I was thinking.IĀ sketched a plan to incorporate all of them. No, IĀ didn't know the first thing about gardening. But I was determined! Here it is a year later and I haveĀ a whole new appreciation for gardening.Ā I would say most of the $8,000Ā I spent this past year is probably dead. Not only due to inexperience and heavy clay soil, but the worst weather year in recent history! I'll know what, if anything, survived in a couple of months. I just recently enrolled in a Master Gardening program so that will come in handy as well. With your videos and a little luck I hope to have my "Around The World" gardenĀ soon.Ā I love your videos!Ā Keep them coming please!
I love the Q&A! Maybe do one once a month? Canāt wait to follow your new garden project. Iām sure it will be beautiful!
Any ideas on getting rid of trumpet vines? My neighbor has one and itās sending up shoots all over my yard/garden. Iāve dug it out, used herbicide, salt and vinegar, bleach you name it I tried it and it just pops up somewhere else. Dug down 2 feet and still canāt kill it, any help would be greatly appreciated!
Have you tried repels all? Laura from garden answer talks about it all the time, but she doesnāt have deer problems. I have deer issues and just wonder if youāve tried it.
I am a photographer and I will say that I think your light is fine. It is common to light one side of the face more than the other so that it is not flat but you get something called āmodelingā, which creates a 3 dimensional image. Enjoying your videos!
When I was studying to be a photographer, a teacher had us do a project where we clipped images that we really liked. I clipped almost all black and white! Therefore, I have become a fine art B&W photographer.
Erin, thank you for answering all those questions, especially mine about the drone. I am beginning to think that drones are very useful tools, especially for those of us who have large garden areas. May have to add it to my birthday list. Happy gardening, Lina Fletcher, Colorado.
This isnāt blabbering. Great info. You speak well and explain well.
This is something you probably already know but I don't have a drone so I just Google Maps and my address and get a view of my hole layout and then I zoomit with a screenshot just a thought for somebody that doesn't know that keep videos coming love them
Sorry of course you don't know I have a drone should have worded that different
Also go to satellite not to Terrain
Sorry about the lack of my punctuation, don't type much.
Hey girl! You are never boring! Thanks for all your content ššæš
it sounds like a fence would be more economical than the deer repellent every year.
Can you do a video of you applying the deer repellent this spring
Enjoy all your videos keep up the great work you do for us out here in YouTube land
YES about the weeds… just get them out at the roots… itās just like the short cuts, rarely a good final solution
New sub here…thanks for all your information. Iām starting with a blank slate and had no idea where to start! You really gave me a lot to think about. I like how you keep things real too. Love your gardens!
Just found your channel and really really enjoy it! I like the inclusion of not all the fun and pretty finished parts of gardening. I like seeing and hearing about the planning, moving of plants and sometimes the mishaps.
Pennsylvanica?
Erin, I use Milorganite and Cotton Seed Meal in my 2 acre landscape garden. The deer definitely do not like these fertilizers. I use the Milorganite on my Lawn in the Spring and in pots when planting up. It smells yes, but after a rain the smell goes away. However the smell is still detectable to animals especially deer. I use the Cotton Seed Meal (an old Southern Fertilizer) on hedges and various plants along a creek where the deer used to roam but not anymore. I believe it is the Cotton Seed Meal which has a strong order until it rains. I only apply the Cotton Seed Meal with a heavy dose in Early Spring and it lasts all Season Long. It is also quite inexpensive to purchase. Hope this helps.
Keep blabbbbbbbbing Away I am hanging on every word !!!!!!! Thank you!!!!
Re: getting all the plants at one time. My long-term plan is to create (primarily) perennial gardens. In buying just one or two of a particular variety that will grow and can later be divided, I will be able to fill out areas and introduce plants to other beds over time. This is budget-friendly, but requires waiting a lot longer for desired results.