Cottage Garden Design Lessons as we tour of the Shakespeare garden in Central Park, New York City. Support the channel: https://www.patreon.com/suburbanhomestead or buy my art https://www.etsy.com/shop/SiloeOliveira
Created by: Siloe Oliveira
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Superb video! Your garden is just as gorgeous as the Shakespeare garden. I am impressed that you had access to the Library of Congress maps! (I only got to see the LOC with a tour group! How did you do it?) Also, I like that you have double day lilies. My grandmother planted doubles, and they have survived the decades — but not many places seem to have them. They're heirloom flowers. I never see them at garden centers, just in quiet corners of slightly abandoned gardens.
The way you see the space is phenomenal and ofcourse the editing execution. This is a vintage diary rather than a yt channel.
Thank you. Was great, as allways 🙂
As always, excellent!
9:29 Oh the dreaded morning glory! All of my cottage garden plants get on well with each other, but NOT the morning glories, they destroy by suffocation all plants beneath them, this week I have spent much time hacking out the morning glories along with all of the other odious weeds. I love the look of morning glories, but they are bad neighbors, so I have bannished them from my cottage garden. 14:36 Yes, I have the foxglove and delphinium and lupine seedlings planted in pots for cold room storage until springtime. To depend on the merchant to sell what is right is undependable and costly. I think of the English cottage garden as being much small than what you showed us in Central Park. I think of what you showed us in New York as being an informal, grand estate type garden. Your home is much more of a cottage garden than Central Park. The English cottage garden as we know it and love it is an 1890s to 1920s form. It often times helps to thoroughly comprehend a matter by attempting to contemplate/learn how it evolved over time, for example , what was the English cottage garden during, say, the 1500s, during the 1600s, during the 1700s on up to when the form was solidified into what we define as English cottage garden of the 1800s. I suspect, that the further we go back in time,the more vegetables and fruit that we would find, interspersed wth a few flowers since having sufficient food in the pre industrial time was a very important concern.
So, it is the English cottage garden of the late 1890s is what is homey, nostalgic, sentimental garden that we adore. Your yard garden is gorgeous, thank you for sharing!
Ralph in Ohio.
Thank you. This was very interesting and informative. Your garden is looking magical. 🧡
This was wonderful, thank you for sharing. I would be interested to hear what features in your own garden use some of these same ideas.
I ❤ you, you’re art and cottage garden theme vids. Please make more 😊
I'm absolutely spellbound, Siloe. Nothing escapes your designer eye, thanks for opening ours a bit more. Love you watercolor renderings!
I feel fortunate to live in Montreal where we have our own Olmstead designed park. Mount Royal Park was where my gran took me to feed the ducks and it is also where the family plot is so when I go to pay respects to them I feel surrounded by the beauty of nature. Thank you for the tour, I haven't been in Central Park for about 10 years and I feel like it's time to visit again and tour the Highline for the first time.
Thank you for your fanastic video of the park and seeing your garden..had always enjoyed the video,s of your garden.A few years back a friend of mine from here in Australia stayed in an apartment over looking the park .She often sent me postcards from her trips and she send one with 4 views of the of the park .It was so good in your video too see it's history really enjoyed that . I love my cottage garden and veggie patch areas and fruit trees . I had too start again as moved 5 and a half years ago . Lots of plants and cuttings came with me and most of my roses as my ex didn't like roses and said of course you can have them and you bought them . We did stay friends. We had worked in that garden and made a,secret garden . Cottage garden and flowers ,roses ,fruit trees ,bulbs and some veggies . Sadly my ex partner died after a,return battle of cancer . House got sold and the next owner an inverter just cleaned all the whole garden out all those mature fruit trees too . The best apricots I,d ever eaten . I cried for 2 weeks and was so thankful that I had this garden that I,ve added too here . Back too the roses….Over 6 mths I went too dig up the roses and replant here .Not an easy task as,I have MS . Most of them survived and grew much bigger in the volcanic soil . Lovely vases of flowers in the house through the spring summer and autumn . Dahlias grow so well too and gladies considering the vast difference in temps in the summer . Lucky have plenty water here on the farm I rent from family . Today while out front of the house planting a small turkey fig tree out near front veggie patch ,there about 6 older and cows in front paddock came up too check out what I was doing .One big cream cow came literly bouncing up too the fence ..Oh it was so funny was so thankful there was a fence between us . They all just stood there and I chatted too them. Made my day . Oh and yes would be lovely too see other gardens always inspiring and maybe get some new ideas .
I have already watched this twice. So much information !!! Thank you for sharing all of this knowledge ❤❤❤
I love your explanations of garden design principals and hope you make many more of these!
Your videos should be included in the Master Class series…at least. They are tour de force jewels of amazing quality. I can't believe how much information and demonstration you include. Simply masterful!
Your garden is looking fantastic there, it's come a long way.
Lovely, I really enjoy your videos. You have a true sense of beauty.
This was really cool! Thank you!
I would also love to see month by month or maybe season by season tours of your home garden! I feel like in every video it looks so different, I'm amazed!
Fascinating!!
As always, your storytelling is a balm for the senses in a ln in-your-face society. I think you outdid yourself, also with the editing. Agree that youre more than ready for bigger audiences, if you desire it.
The location! I spend a lot of time in and around this area. Would happily send you pics from the other seasons. If I don't have them, I'll take them.
This is a wonderful video! I love what you have done in your garden and this is very inspiring! Thank you.
Very inspirational. Thank you so much.
Your treatment of the history of this iconic garden made the video so much more provocative and enriching than a simple walk-through. I'll never view Central Park and cottage gardens in the same way again. Of course, I'd love to see more videos like this. ~ Lisa
P.S. The videography was superb.
I enjoyed it and learned a lot. Excellent graphics. By the way, a lack of autumn blooming plants is common to many of our gardens, I think. I’m going to add goldenrods, asters and blanketflowers to improve my own garden in the fall.
Excellent format! I found myself wandering through this garden years ago after a visit to The Met. It truly is magical in early summer. You may be interested in another Olmsted garden located in North Carolina, The Biltmore. His planning of the approach to the home is especially interesting.
🦉I would love to see your artistic approach to an autumn landscape such as a pumpkin patch. What types of floral are most effective for fall and creative uses of corn stalks ect. 🍁🍂
Your attention to detail and understanding of color is very impressive and I think I speak for most when I say your passion is very much appreciated. 😉
I agree with all of these positive comments! Thank you for going the extra mile; it was candy for the eyes and a bounty of information!
I would absolutely be interested in seeing your artists perspective on the many different types of gardens that people enjoy, though the cottage garden is one of my favorites!
Thank you for this. This is really really great. Keep it up.
Sorry to be a downer among all these positivt comments, but I have to be honest. I love your videos Siloe and I´m proud to be your patron. Every time a new video of yours shows up in my feed, it sends a spark of joy through my heart.
With that said, I think this video is weaker than most of your recent videos. It is interesting and educative, but there is too little of your own garden and I don´t think the main draw of your channel is the discussion of social issues around land use and gentrification. While that definetily can be important to highlight, I believe that your videos are at their strongest when they serve as a wonderful escapistic breather in your beautiful world of art and gardening. I believe your videos help people appreciate nature, beauty and the symbiosis of man and nature that can be achieved through gardening and that is a giant positive force in itself.
I think the main weakness of this video is that it displays too little of you and your garden. My absolute favourite videos of yours are where you take us on a tour around your stunning cottage garden. There is no other gardener on Youtube (in my opinion) who has the immaculate taste you do and noone who comes close when it comes to garden design, color and composition. Seeing you put this on display while also letting us explore how your garden develops through the year while simultaneously giving interesting tidbits, tips and small philosophical musings is pure joy and your biggest strength.
My tip would be to go back to basics now that you´ve amassed a larger audience. One possibility would be to do these larger more in depth videos on your main channel while doing smaller scale videos exclusively for patrons. This might attract more of your audience to become patrons in addition to keeping your older fans happy. If you want to continue producing more videos where you explore other gardens I would recommend that you showcase how you´ve tried to recreate concepts you appreciate in other gardens into your own.
Much love, and most of all a big thank you for your time and effort in creating these wonderful videos, Martin
Very interesting take on garden design!
Adorei a abordagem de diversos assuntos vinculados à jardinagem. Não sei porquê, mas parece que ao longo da história os jardins e as caminhadas ao ar livre desde muito tempo atraíram os humanos.
Another fabulous video! Love the indepth analysis and exploration. Eye opening historical info. Love the format ❤🎉😊
Espalier , in 🇬🇧 we call it pleached trees 🌲so you use a Spanish word and UK uses a French word .
Do more videos like this! It's amazing!
Absolutely lovely, as always. You put so much hard work and creativity into every video, not to mention the epic work on your own garden. It's truly impressive. Thank you so much for doing it!
You are so talented. Your videos are so creative. I would love to see more.
Very nice! Thank you for making a video again. 🙂
Thanks for creating this video – I look forward to whatever you produce next! I did love the analysis of the Shakespeare Garden and would love to see other gardens that inspire you.
Yes, do more gardens
This video is masterfully done, thank you!
Great video! YES to this manner of content! Now, I will have to pop over to the city next May to see this garden in its glory.
Beautiful and informative video. Thank you.