My dream back yard living room and patio are coming to life. Step by step and stage by stage!
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It’s going to look so beautiful, I just love everything that you have done 💕
I have three similar vegetable raised bins (veg trug from Gardeners supply). I planted two far enough apart to place an arched trellis and I am currently growing pole beans on it.
I don’t have an outdoor kitchen but I have a cast iron sink with a drain board and a fridge inside garage. We can tomatoes outside using a camp chef double burner stove. Works beautifully.
Fabulous ideas and wonderful content! Thank you Linda! It’s all looking so beautiful!
Love when you do these videos. I often look back at old ones for inspiration at this time of year. Linda where do you get your moss for top dressing please.
You are a wonderful woman with so man inspiring ideas😊. Love you💚💚. Greetings from Wiesbaden, Germany, Andrea
I am going to enjoy seeing the pair of little miss figgy espaliered on the wall. Will you use wire on walls or special topiary wall mounts? I keep seeing visions of a Mediterranean garden, especially with the wonderful job from the team with paving. I would love, (my preference, I'm not a Japanese maple fan, maybe I'm the only one) a large lemon tree and lime tree either side of the outdoor kitchen. You could make them topiary. I have orange trees, I'm creating an avenue, their still young, one fruit lol. But they would be handy for drinks when in fruit and more chance to buy some lovely large pots spilling over with thyme or chives etc.
Love the way the back garden is coming together. So elegant and creative. Fun watching the process. I am overwhelmed with coleus cuttings. They root so quickly. Never would have thought of topiaries but a fantastic idea. When I hiked to the bottom of the Grand Canyon we were warned to not rely on gatorade.
I don't see the white vinegar you use for weed control, could you please link.
Coleus topiaries!!!!! Brilliant, Linda. You've done it again!
Love the idea of coleus topiaries! Always have cuttings so why not try it!
I hope that you flipped your wooden cutting board and are not using the food side for this project.
Linda you top dress a lot of your pots with gravel. How do you know when the pot needs watering? I am so use to putting my finger in the dirt in the pot. I would think putting gravel on top would make it harder to check the moisture of the dirt in a pot.
Linda I was watching Jim Putnam channel yesterday and he mentioned you in a recent video. I got so excited when I found out y’all knew each other. Please please please make a video together soon. You two are the best!
I love how Linda is doing the coleus project on a cutting board in her kitchen.
Your back yard is coming along beautifully. I love the courtyard feel, which is what I want to achieve in my much larger, more open back yard. I do have a privacy fence all the way around, which is a good start (I can go out in my pajamas in the morning). Not thinking about Christmas, but fall instead. I will start my fall decorating in mid-September (indoors and out) and keep those up until the last week in November. October is my favorite month of the year. I'm looking forward to watching you espalier Miss Figgy since I have one myself, still in a pot. It's doing fine, but I have an east-facing brick wall to I could put it on. It has been extremely hot and dry here the last 2 weeks (zone 7B, N MS), but we got a good rain on Friday with more in the forecast and much lower temps in the forecast this week. It is still August and we can expect it to be hot, but it's nice to see at least a short break.
Fig trees like to throw their roots under a structure so this spot should work really well!
What a nice man Javier is. Very kind and always smiling. Your backyard is going to be amazing!
Great garden and tips. Those hats can be found at Costco.
Linda dear, I wish you had a cool shed to film your potting demos. Allowing dirt on your kitchen countertop is a mega surprise for me. Of course you'll clean things up but that's extra work!
Great video, thanks Linda!
Love this, Linda! I saw the most beautiful geranium/Pelargonium topiary at a local garden center this spring. I didn’t buy it but have taken cuttings off on of mine, placed it in water but the roots didn’t grow, it started getting soft at the bottom. I took a new cutting today, hoping to get it to root. Any tips on how to get it to send out roots?
I learn so much everyone I watch! Thank you Linda, Stewart and Leah!
It’s coming along so beautifully!
The throw rug under the bench looks amazing 😮🤩🤩🤩
Are you sure Hubs wouldn’t like a nice hammock between those trees? 🤷🏻♀️😂
🤕Ugh! I can't stand to see you walking along that path along the side of your house, it looks like a tripping situation just waiting to happen. Larger stones aren't going to matter, one wrong step and it's a 5-6 foot fall/roll to the sidewalk. How about a nice fence along the top of that wall?
Looking good!! That focal bench will be a great spot for some pumpkins or a pot with fall flowers soon 💚
I put used dryer sheets in the bottom of my pots. It holds the soil in and doesn’t take up a lot of space
The topiary Coleus are fascinating as is the idea of espaliering the Fig trees. Great use of what you already have on hand. "No guts – no glory. A gardening risk worth taking."
I guess the fig trees you are planning on planting do not have invasive roots?
Looking good Linda!
The end of the video is so nice and cute 🥰
Regards, Sanne Lilia
Hi Linda, can you do a segment about composting? I’d like to see what you do with you cuttings after you place them in your compost bucket. And when you pull the composer to spread on your garden and how you spread it. Thank you!
why don;t you auction off a back yard dinner with Linda for charity ..when its all finished …I would buy a ticket!!
I use sheetrock yellow netting for the bottoms of my pots. It works really well to keep soil inside pot.
Hubs has the right idea walking down the sidewalk instead of those sketchy pavers which are a tripping hazard.
Can you please list again for me what the name is of the mulch and gravel you use! Thank you so much! I love your videos!
Linda, Bravo. Well done. It all looks so well thought out. On your Saturday video, could you show us how you do your hair. I have the same length but can’t quite get my pull back so nice as yours. Thanks. P.S. your outfit is so simple but so stylish. Judy
Like Leah’s comments, She asks what we are all wondering
Love watching you. Very appreciative but wanted to add a comment. Your patios and walk ways look like dangerous toe catchers (especially the walkway from front to back yard. It looks like I would topple for sure. Just a comment
But I’ll continue to watch.
Hi from Annie Garden looks so nice, when you spoke about planting up against the brick wall what I have done is used those wooden trellis supports against a wall and it stops plants getting too hot up along the wall creates space for breeze to go thru it works wonders and the trellis can be painted all sorts of bright colors too.
Hi Stewart 👋🏻