May I get personal for a moment? I want to address several things about our channel with all of you, and my thoughts on some of the comments made in Saturday’s video. So, can we talk?
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I enjoyed the thrifting video shown while you were away. It was fun and well presented. Thank you.
I can’t tell you how much joy your videos bring me. Your whole team is wonderful and I appreciate the contribution from each one. I love hearing Stewart’s thoughts. I really enjoyed seeing Leah thrift shopping for you. I love when you share products you use and like. The first time I saw one of your videos, was of the tulips in your front yard at the fairytale house. It looked like heaven! I also will never forget when you did one of your first house tours of the inside of that house. I remember thinking how beautiful, warm and welcoming your home was. Now that you’ve moved it is so exciting to see how you are doing everything inside and out. I’ve enjoyed you and your team for years and appreciate the hard work it takes to do this. As always thanks for sharing.❤
You're such a genuine person Linda. You and your team are amazing! I
Oh I loved!! Saturdays video!! Leah was so cute and I think she knows your vibe and I learned how to look for linen and good cottons and bags what great ideas!!!
What a lovely and thoughtful video. I am always amazed at the amount of work it takes to present the creative content that you and other creators do on a regular basis. I really appreciate the beauty and just plain fun that you, Stuart and your team bring to my life. Thank you!
You are loved. You are appreciated. You are a great designer. I look forward to your videos. I appreciate everything you and your team do. Thank you all so much. 💚💚🌟 oh and it’s Wednesday and I can’t wait to sit with my tea after dinner and enjoy… WEDNESDAY WALKABOUT! 👏🏻
Keep sharing products! I LOVE LOVE LOVE my stainless steel hose!
Dear Lina
I love your sweet words and you are so full of love at heart and loving kindness. Sorry, that I don‘t know the right words in english.
I love your channel. You bring so much joy in my life with your kindness, and also so much inspiration and motivation to do more in my little garden. Your kindness encourages me to have a more loving treatment with my surrounding people and family.
Greetings from Germany
Sanne Lilia
You are special to us, Linda❤
Simply put….Beautiful. Thanks y’all ❤
Linda, you truly have brought joy to this “older gardener” and I look forward to all your videos. Your beauty and kindness is beyond measure. Thank you💕💕💕
Well Said Beautiful Lady!🌳♥️
You all do a great job! Love watching your videos every week as I eat dinner and learn more and hear what you are doing in the garden. Keep up the great work. All topics are great. Thanks for being real and sharing your heart. Happy gardening.
I thought Leah was wonderful…she is natural in front of a camera…I enjoyed her shopping for Linda. She is a gem!
Love watching and all content, keep being you! Great job to you and your team for all your accomplishments.
Linda, I don't usually comment, but I love you and your team. Thank you for brining joy and beauty to our weeks. As a 38 year old gardener, I enjoy you putting out content to include us all. I started a garden from scratch 4 years ago and while I have a long way to go, seeing your garden lets me know I'm not alone in my gardening quest. I never miss a video and as my husband likes to say when I implement your ideas, I am "Linda-ing the garden or house". Just this week I took my first trip to Trader Joe's to buy wine to drink and I'll take the bottles and turn them into water containers for our fridge. I also purchased a bouquet of flowers for our kitchen table. You remind me that I need to take small moments to enjoy beautiful things inside as well as out.
BRING BACK LEAH! WE WANT LEAH! WE WANT LEAH 🥳
Hello Linda,
Thank you so much for everything that you and your crew produce on your show. I am annoyed that you had to take the time to explain yourself yet again to people that are very negative and aren’t showing kindness or just enjoying the simple pleasures of gardening. There are times when I have had a very busy day and I’ll say “OK Linda I need to hear your voice.” There is a gentle calm that comes over me as you share your new adventures! Life is short, enjoy the simple pleasures!
Don’t let anyone take your joy and question your “why” for all the topics you cover. I enjoy the camaraderie between you and Stewart ! You are lovely and truly humble. You call yourself an amateur gardener but you are truly a master gardener ! I felt compelled to tell to remember the reason you started this platform! Enjoy your peace in the dirt and don’t feel obligated to explain yourself to people that don’t have the joy in their hearts!!! Take good care! ❤
Thank you Linda and team for sharing from your heart!
I had been away from gardening for a long period of time due to career/travel and just life commitments. Your program has encouraged me to get back outside and make my outside as fun to be in as the inside!
It’s a relaxing hobby you can do for a lifetime. Your transition to a new house and garden has been so fun to watch and see than one can begin again! I know that change can be so hard for each of us especially with the past few years of changes in our world. But you have been such an encouragement to get up again each day and give it your best. New good things will come about and there are new discoveries to be found.
Members of your team may come and go(grow) like the flowers in your garden do.
Each one a special memory.
Thank you for inviting us to grow too!
You are most kind My Dear… what a wonderful Attribute ❤ You and Stewart make a great team❤
You really are a very kind soul, inspiring and graceful mentor. I truly appreciate you and all that you and Stuart do and share with us ❤
I love your variety, your style and your authentic personality. Please keep doing what you love. I look forward to your videos no matter the content I learn something each and every time.
I have definitely started using bricks in my garden in a way that I wouldn't have thought of without watching your channel. Also, you had a big impact me during covid, and helped me to make it through with gardening..
You come across as very authentic and it means alot. I subscribed to your channel and joined but I haven't seen where to get your address. I'd love to show you pictures of the garden that you have largely inspired!
Oh my, I for one ❤ the thrift video with Leah. Was quite refreshing, enjoyed the change of pace. 😊
Linda ive been watching you for a while love you and yoyr team! You are so right about how good gardening is for your mental health. Ive been gardening ever since i could walk. My grandma got me out side and in the garden at a very early age. We have always said it is our therapy. It IS so good for us, and i thank her so much for getting me out there in the dirt. I dont know where i would be with out gardening. I just turned 30 and ive been gardening at my own place for 10 years now. I always gardened at home growing up. So there are some of us younger folk who are into gardening as well. I think its important that young people should get into gardening, get outside in nature, in the dirt and not behind a screen all the time. Its so good for us mentally and physically. I love your channel and this new garden has been so exciting to see this year. Its gonna be beautiful. I just love and adore you, keep doing what you guys do and like you said, you are nice company, a cup of cheer and pick me up when ive had a stressful day!
I loved seeing all the handwritten notes because it maybe a lost art. Hence the older demographic showing again. (Yep me :D). Loved hearing about your mission statement. Rock on sister.
The garden is my happy place for sure. But remember grounding is importent to our bodies …… hands and feet connecting with the earth …. we need it for our chemical/electrical/ chi systems. Humans connected to the earth for millions of years and only now we’ve stopped. Let’s walk on the lawn barefoot and put our hands in the soil.
Grounding is a term used to calm anxiousness, but the best kind is literal connect with the earth. Love from New Zealand. 😀
I want to apologize for those who hurt you with their comments. You are an original and yesterday’s video was a lovely extension of you. Keep them coming! You make me smile.😅
Good show….
Great talk today, Linda. You are right on. Life is too short to become upset by a rhythm change for sure. Glad you had a beautiful vacation and I always look forward to a new video, no matter the content. Always informative. Have a blessed day! 🤩
To encourage civil discourse through your social media is greatly appreciated. I enjoy your content so much ♥️ I am Team Linda 100% ♥️♥️♥️♥️
I can tell you from experience that Linda appreciates everything you say and send to her. Several years ago I gave her something and she squealed, hugged me. She even told me she loved me and had tears in her eyes. I’m here to tell you she is genuine. ❤
I appreciate the products that you have promoted. I personally have bought the small brass floor lamp (in your previous home) and just recently the push mower. It really has been a fun way to keep the yard looking nice! Please keep what you’re doing. I watched the thrift store visit where she was shopping for you. I thoroughly enjoyed it and can’t wait to see if you actually try it on! 😘
Love love love your videos.
Love the variety you cover.
You’re so inspiring & have a fabulous zest for life & gardening.
Don’t ever change.
❤️Deb , Australia
Great video, thank you!
Your humanity is what we love most, Linda, and is a reflection of the beautiful human you are. This global gardening community has and continues to benefit from your kindness, compassion, and example of garden inspired living. There is only gratitude to show you, your team and the family and community that lifts you up and supports you so that you can show up for us. If the natural world teaches us anything, it's the importance of harmony and balance. In the quiet moments in our respective gardens or green spaces, when we are still – even for a moment – we are fortunate enough to witness that. Your contributions serve as a regular reminder. Thank you.
Stewart, I hope you tell Leah how much she is appreciated and we want her back. Look at the great comments about her. Leah, you are adorable…..we want you to continue to film!
I just enjoy you so much! So sorry there was a misunderstanding and feelings were hurt. This too shall pass…
Bless you linda❤
Linda i take your absence in stride. I mean really you DO have a life! Lol. Your team is a big help and I'd like to see what you'll like that Leah has selected for you from thrifting. I'm also the one you mentioned on the live feed that you were my inspiration for losing at the time 42 lbs. Now, I've lost 49 lbs and you continue to move me forward to lose the last 20 lbs. This enormous weight gain was brought on by the death of my late husband. It was a struggle to endure but at this juncture in life I'm confident in my garden inspired life and have bloomed just as my garden has bloomed at this year particularly during 2023. I have truly expanded my plantings and designed a TOPIARY HOPSCOTCH garden! I'll send some photos.
Love the Leah video! She is adorable.
You get such sweet gifts because you are so sweet. Love your channel! ❤
You are such a gracious Lady! Enjoy all of your content! Of you need help to keep it all organized! So glad you have a great team! 💯❤️
Amen Linda, you and Stuart and your team do a great job. love ! can’t please everybody all the time so don’t even try.
Well done and we’ll said Linda. Your team is perfect. I’m recently retired and when young adult gardeners come for a little mini tour of my gardens and go home with free plants, I’m more excited then they are. Because, they are are our future care takers of our home we all call Earth. Keep up the good work!
The epitome of grace.
Mickey Hart was a drummer with the Grateful Dead.
I really can relate to your thoughts about sharing our love and enthusiasm of gardening with the younger generation. I'm a 70 year old garden club member and feel we are dying as a group. I've had the love and joy of gardening in my heart and soul for as long as I can remember…how do we pass this love and passion of gardening along to the younger generations? Looking for contemporary creative ways to bring young people into the garden inspired way of living!!! So…keep on reaching out to all ages in your community!
Linda, Stewart, Leah, and Phoebe, you are delightful. You so generously share your knowledge with warmth and gentle humor. I’m so grateful!