Create a Dream Garden on a Tiny Budget – 7 Must-Know Tips! + Designing a Whole Garden for ONLY $120

Hello everybody!

Gardening doesn’t have to break the bank. In today’s video, I’m sharing 7 practical tips to help you create a beautiful garden without spending a fortune. Whether you’re dreaming of colorful blooms or structured spaces, it is possible to achieve a stunning garden on a budget — and I’ll show you how.

From smart planning to creative DIYs, I’ve included my favorite budget-friendly gardening tricks, plus a few bonus tips you won’t want to miss. I even walk you through how to design an entire garden for just $120!

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If I was starting a garden again from scratch on a budget, here are the seven things I would and wouldn’t do. And stick around because I’m going to design you a dreamy garden for just 120 bucks. [Music] If you ask any garden designer or landscaper what planting you should start with, most likely they’re going to say your structural plants and your evergreens. And this is great advice because then you get them in the ground. They have ample time to kind of settle in, let their roots establish, and that way you can build your whole garden around these larger pieces. However, if you’re on a budget, you can very easily splash out your entire budget on just one evergreen. You know, depending on the size, the variety, and where you are, where you’re located, you can spend anywhere between $100 and $400. I’ve even seen $700 for these really beautiful evergreen structures. Instead, what I would do is buy small structural evergreens like boxwoods for about 8 to 10 bucks. So, you want varieties of boxwood that will eventually get big, but you want to buy them when they’re small. This can save you so, so much money. You can find holly arbs and pines in small cans for a very reasonable price. We found two really beautiful spherical arbs. They’re sort of a blue green color. Gorgeous. We got them very, very small. They were $7 each. And now they grow so quickly. They’re these gorgeous little blobs in the winter time. I absolutely love them. I highly recommend that you spend your money on large perennials first. The ones that grow very large and impressive in the first year, which will be possible since you’ve started small with evergreen, shrubs, and other expensive things to offset costs. And I think with anything in life, when you’re first starting out, when you’re a beginner, you want these little wins. You want these things that make you feel like there’s momentum. Otherwise, it can kind of stifle your creativity. You want to experience the thing that made you do this in the first place. So, you want to have those beautiful flowers in your garden. You want to have that gorgeous structure or the scent of a a geranium leaf, one of my favorite things. If we can see the vision, if we can experience what we’re after in that first year, it helps encourage us to keep going. And if we spend $1,000 setting up structural plants in our garden, but then we have no room for the fun, the fluff, the frills, it can stifle our motivation to keep learning and growing and getting out in the garden. Instead, honestly, I would focus on instant impact for those first few years. Fill it in with big perennials and vigorous spreaders and growers like baptisia, hardy geraniums, hostas, echgonatia, joe, pyweed, dinnerplate, hibiscus. The main tip here is just to mitigate the big blank space, which can often feel very overwhelming as a new gardener. If you just have this blank rectangle of lawn to work with, it can feel sort of intimidating when you don’t have a lot of things. So, you want to be able to fill that space in your garden up very quickly within the first few years. And the biggest part of this tip is to start your perennials from seed. I would definitely go with varieties that are really easy to grow from seed if you’re a beginner. Start with echgonatia. Start with loopins. Those two are very, very easy for beginners. It’s so helpful to have a rough garden plan in mind. Now, this doesn’t have to be fancy. It doesn’t have to be elaborate. But if you have a long-term vision, then you’ll know how and where to use those smaller evergreens and generally where to get started. I have a very helpful tip about hardscape. It might be the most helpful tip in this video and also potentially the most controversial. I have that later in the video, but have an idea in mind of what garden moments you want to capture. For example, you’ve always dreamed of having a garden bench surrounded by fragrant flowers. Or you envision yourself walking through an archway of beautiful vibrant tumbling roses. Or you love the look of a meandering garden path or a white picket fence with blooms peeking out or a hedge of lavender. I mean, it can be anything, but having those basic things in mind can help you design a basic framework for your space. So, I would draw a rough outline of your space. Plunk in those vital elements for you where they feel like they would fit in the best and then connect and incorporate garden beds and pads throughout in your sketch. This way you can better place those small evergreens and your perennials knowing the general trajectory of your garden dreams. But you know what? Don’t fret because I have moved fully grown boxwoods and they are thriving. So nothing is permanent. Everything is flowing. It’s all okay. It’s going to be okay. And with that in mind, like this process is fluid. You’re going to move things. Things are going to move. That’s actually part of keeping everything healthy is to move things. You’re going to change as a gardener. As you grow and as you learn, things are going to evolve. So over the the first few years of your gardening experience, it’s really really helpful not to have anything permanent, not to have those permanent structures that you put in that evergreen structure that you’ve placed in there that you spent $200 on. Oh, I have to move that. Oh, no. Because you you want to have the ability to change and grow. That’s just part of it. And you will make mistakes and that’s perfectly fine. That’s a sort of a bonus tip is that you’re going to make mistakes and that doesn’t make you a bad gardener. that makes you a gardener. I really believe that there should be freedom in the process. So, just have fun with it. Don’t be don’t be too serious about your garden. And then the next tip, tip number four, fill in with annuals with big reliable annuals. Things like holly hawks, cosmos, zenas, things that are going to get big and bold and flowerpacked from the word go. Think sunflowers, bachelor’s buttons, climbers like morning glory and nersiums. You know, if you’re just getting started, you want to start easy. These flowers that I just mentioned, they’re gorgeous and they will thrive in almost any garden and they cost between one to three bucks for about 50 seeds. That’s 50 plants for just a couple of bucks and it’s a huge impact. But if you love buying annuals from your local garden center, that’s fabulous. I would suggest that you choose big plants with lots of bloom power that bloom throughout the entire season. Things like play in the blue salvia. They work in every growing zone in the US that I’ve experienced. You know, I would probably experiment with some dalas. Those are so fun. Cut and come again. So, you can just have blooms from midsummer all the way through the frost. And they grow huge and produce buckets of flowers. But I would rely heavily on these more affordable annuals that have a lot of flower power. The next thing I would do if I was starting a garden from scratch is I would focus on perennials that are easy to divide. This way you can get 20 plants for the price of one. So things that are really easy for us to divide here are irises. Oh my gosh, one iris plant gives us 50, 60, 70, 100 irises. I mean, it’s crazy how quickly they spread. Dillies, hearty geraniums, the speeart geranium. We only bought one I think and we’ve got our whole garden spread through row with Spez Geraniums all from that. I think it was one or two plants. Neta is another really easy one to divide and it’s happier because of that. That’s the beauty of these plants. Perennials, they want to be divided. Like I talked about the fluidity of the garden. These things want to be divided for the health of the plant. Keeps them healthy. Now, you don’t want to do this until about the third year. I probably wouldn’t divide anything sooner than that. Although, to be honest, I have. I’ve bought plants and then divided them right out of the can and they’re doing great. I bought some lambs earier and did the same. Lambs ears is another great perennial to start with because it gets huge, easy to divide all of that. But things like a stillbees, echynatia, hostas, brunna, this is the beauty of planting perennials. Free plants for life from a single plant. And you know, this is long-term thinking. So you can just buy maybe two plants that you’re really drawn to at the garden center, two perennials, and then just know in the next few years you can divide those and have four or eight plants. And then eventually you can divide those. And then a couple years later, you can divide the mother plants again. And you can just continue to have these beautiful plants. You can divide. You can also do other forms of propagation. It’s just a really powerful way of filling up your space on a budget. So, this is one of those tips that most most people would say that you should do first. Put in the hardscape. Put in the hardscape right away. That way, you can design your garden around the hardscape. Put in the hardscape and then from there you can decide on the plants. Then you’ll know the trajectory of the garden. However, I would I would suggest on a budget or not, honestly, not to put your hardscape in first. Controversy. But I would suggest instead that you live with it for a while. See what the natural trajectory is that you walk through in the morning. Where does your dog love to run? Where do your kids love to play? What is the sunniest spot at the perfect time of day that you’re home and that you can enjoy? I would definitely have some like maybe some a little cheap beastro set with some chairs, foldable chairs. Like we got ours for not very much money. And you could just have something like that or some chairs from inside and just put them around the garden. Maybe some beach chairs and see what feels best. What’s a nice space for you to enjoy? Is there a particular area that’s really buggy? Is there a particular area that’s really muggy and hot? Is there another area that’s shadier and cooler that in the morning is really sunny, so you thought at first it might be a sunspot? Just experience your garden. Experience the way that you move and play and live in your garden. You know, hardscape is expensive and it’s also hard to change. So, let your garden guide you first. Don’t pour your path. Don’t put in that perfect garden arch. Don’t plop in a flower shed. Don’t splurge on a patio set. Put the structures in down the line when you know your space and when you have the budget. Like your large evergreens, hardscape is more permanent. So, you want to know how you’ll use your space before you commit to it. You want to know how your garden functions for you cuz it’s there to function for you and with you. And you’ll only know that once you’re in your space, gardening in it, enjoying it, and living in it. And tip number seven, put in temporary structures. So the first few years, instead of doing those permanent structures, I would put in temporary structures. Things that give you a general sense of what you want without splashing out on them. So when we first moved in, I knew that I wanted certain things. Like I had those little garden moments in mind. I knew that I wanted an arch that had clemetus growing on it, morning glory growing off it. Those beautiful blue trumpets of flower. I knew that I wanted a rose arbor with beautiful roses and more clementism more morning glory spilling out over it. So we built all of those structures just from stuff we had on the property. Very Robinson Cruso. We just put together branches, grape vines to create these little structures. And that was so fantastic. We knew they were temporary. We knew they wouldn’t last super long, but it was so beautiful and so fun to have those structures in place around which we could sort of have the vision come to life without spending all the money on the perfect structural piece. This way you can get, you know, deeply familiar with your gardening space, deeply familiar with your gardening style, cuz we all have different gardening styles before you commit to these bigger purchases. And then you can add the structures and the support and all of that that you want to your space. You can figure out how big of an arch you want. Maybe roses don’t actually even grow very well in your area. Maybe you’ve decided that you want to do more of a tropical garden or maybe you’ve decided that you want to do prairie style planting. Maybe things just change based on your environment and all of that. And it’s nice to have the ability to do that without having these permanent structures in place. We did this with our path. Now, the way that we did it is we created a path through the center. It’s changed a little bit over time. We extended the garden about 50 ft into the driveway. And so half of our garden path for a while was like the gravel from the driveway and then a line with the grass that was our yard before. And what this allowed me to do was see the vision of the plants that I wanted, going out in the garden space, all the things that I wanted from a garden, connection to nature, being surrounded by flowers. I have a cottage style garden, so I loved having edibles all amongst my flowers. And so I could go out and, you know, harvest beans from a tripod, right, with all the flowers all around me, butterflies and hummingbirds and bumblebees and dragonflies all over the place. And so I was able to benefit from all of that beauty before deciding exactly what kind of path I wanted because we just we weren’t sure exactly what we wanted. We weren’t sure if we wanted what we ended up with, which is a cobblestone pathway made from rocks on our property, just rocks that are here cuz we live on a mountain side. We had talked about maybe doing some gray bricks, uh, maybe in like a herring bone pattern leading up to the front of the cottage. We had talked about maybe doing slats, almost like a pallet walkway or something like that. Something very cottagey and whimsical and romantic. We talked about all different kinds of things, but in the end, we settled for a cobblestone pathway. We did that this past November. And I’m so glad we waited because if we had gone with one of our initial ideas, it would have been so much more expensive than what we ended up doing. And I love how this looks. I just think it’s so so charming. And I’m so glad that we waited. So that’s another thing that I would definitely suggest. Wait on your heartscape. All right, let’s just do some rapid fire bonus tips. Focus on longived lowmaintenance plants. Avoid fussy plants that need constant pruning and maintenance. Native plants and drought tolerant species often require less care and maintenance. Some of my favorites are sedums, Joe pyweed, nepida, Russian sage, lamb’s ear, spasard geranium, pulmonaria, ladies mantle. There are so many more. Next up, soil can get expensive, so start with a small compost area. This can be made from an old pallet, some branches like we’ve done, or you can simply start a compost pile, just a pile. Make sure it’s away from the house, ideally tucked behind something, maybe a shrub. And don’t add anything that might attract rodents, especially until you have a proper setup, but compost everything you can. Use coffee grounds, veggie scraps, shredded leaves, grass clippings. It’s free soil. Add veggies everywhere. They’re easy to start from seed, and they do all their growing in the first year, so they really pack a punch. That’s the beauty of a cottage garden. You know, you can add strawberries as a ground cover. You can add those beautiful rosettes of purple cabbage all along your walkway. Use your kale as a structural plume of purple or blue green edible foliage. Beans or peas on homemade tripods. They have beautiful flowers in those gorgeous edible pods. Eggplants have beautiful purple flowers. Peppers, tomatoes, lettuce. Gosh, so much more. Next tip, free chip drop. I think it’s getchipdrop.com, but they are, you know, your local arborists or tree surgeons who will come and drop off a bunch of wood chips for free. It helps them out because they’re kind of harder to, you know, to get rid of, and this is a fantastic way of either creating paths in your garden, temporary paths that are going to be very inexpensive, or using it as a mulch for weed suppression, moisture, and temperature maintenance, and a tidy look in your borders. Next, hit up your thrift stores or your Habitat for Humanity. This is great for temporary and affordable garden scape. You know, edging, arches, benches, or now, this doesn’t sound great, but you could go to the dump. You can find great things there that could serve as either temporary structures, or you can find great things there that can serve as beautiful additions to your garden. Now, I’ve never done that, but I do have friends who have said that they’ve found great things there. So, that’s something to check out. But, we have found wonderful things as we’ve just driven around. People will often just put out some things that they’re getting rid of with a free sign on them. Now, check them for bugs. You don’t want to bring home any, you know, any bed bugs or anything like that, but that’s a fantastic way of getting some. Tag sales or yard sales, garage sales are another great way of just getting some affordable things for your garden. People are getting rid of so many things, even tomato cages and stakes, which can add up and put a dent in your gardening budget, and it’s just a great way to build up your beginner garden scape. And finally, turn to your community. This is a great one. You can turn to them for resources to borrow tools to see if they will let you divide or take a cutting from one of their plants. You know, ideally in the spring or the fall, you know, if you see your gardener out gardening, maybe ask them, hey, what’s your favorite plant for blooms in this area? Or what’s the thing that does, you know, performs the best at this time of year? Or what’s your favorite thing for season long blooms? Or what’s your favorite thing for winter interests here? And most areas will have some kind of community gardening project, whether that’s a garden club or a local volunteer group. Some great resources to find out more about these are public libraries, community centers, universities, local TV and radio stations. They will have all kinds of info about community gardening events. And if there isn’t one, then maybe consider starting your own gardening club in your local area. It’s a great way to make friends and learn a lot about gardening in your particular region. Start your seeds in recycled veget containers like mushrooms. You could use old milk cartons with the top cut off or ice cream pint containers. You could use toilet paper rolls specifically for things like sweet peas. I like using those. You could use old newspaper. Make sure to clean and disinfect the food containers and add holes to the bottom if they don’t already have them. Next tip, use coconut ko bricks to start your seeds. These are a fantastic seed starter. You just have to rehydrate them. They’re also more environmentally friendly because they’re not made from Pete, but it’s just so much more affordable than using bagged seed starting mix. All right. Now, you’re probably thinking, “Okay, Anna, that’s all well and good, but how do I actually do this?” So, let’s do it. Let’s design a garden for you for just 120 bucks. The average backyard in the US is 10,871 ft. So, let’s start with that. Okay. So, we’ll call this 60 ft by 180. So, let’s say the things that you want in your garden, the kind of garden images that you have are a rose arbor, uh, a garden bench, a path, and a vegetable patch. Let’s say those are some of the dream garden moments that you have. So, last time we did a design video like this, I had the house this way, so that the backyard was a wide rectangle. So, this time, let’s do it this way. So, the house is this way. So, it’s this is a sort of long rectangle. Okay. So, this is let’s say the top of the garden. That’s the bottom of the garden, right? So, the house is here. So, let’s say our garden arch is right here. Why not? We have a little garden arch. This is the general design, right? We’re not necessarily doing all these things this year, but we’re putting in the general design. Okay. And then we want a bench. Little beautiful garden bench. Let’s put Let’s put our little garden bench here. And your little garden path. Well, let’s put your little garden path. Your sweet little sweeping garden path this way coming out to the bench like that. Then your veg patch. We’re going to do row crops. That’s the most kind of like efficient in terms of money way to do it. So, we’re just going to do long rows here. So now, even though we’re not doing any hardscape, any permanent hardscape this year in the first year, we do want to kind of think about what we’re doing temporarily to create this path. So, a lot of backyards will have some lawn. So, let’s utilize that. I’m going to kind of pop this bench back a little bit actually to give us a little bit more gardening space just so we can have a little bit more planting room. All right. Let’s imagine that this center path is all grass that was already there. So, you’re leaving all of this here as grass. And if your particular garden doesn’t have grass, let’s say you don’t have a lawn for some reason when you move in, then I would suggest just putting a dark mulch here. You can do that for relatively cheap, especially if you get them at the beginning of the year. And that can be an easy way of creating that that general trajectory of the garden. Now, what I would do for the actual planting is I would do a kind of a combination of a no dig and a dig. So, I wouldn’t dig up this entire space. I would actually just dig in the pocket that you’re going to be planting. Then get some cardboard. You can get free cardboard from so many different places. You can go to department stores, grocery stores, things like that. They should have tons of cardboard that they’re trying to get rid of. And so what I would do is I would fill this in with the cardboard after you’ve dug your holes for the individual plants and kind of removed some of the turf around those. And then I would put on top of that the chips from freechipdrop.com or whatever that place is called. I would just get a load of wood chips just delivered for free. So let’s start with our evergreen structures. We’re going to start with some boxwoods. And for now I’m just going to do four boxwoods. And I’m going to get a couple that are really small to start with that are going to end up being about five or six feet tall. And we’ll kind of spread them out evenly to give some nice structure. So these are the boxwoods. And again, these are going to be teeny teeny tiny when you first get them. About eight bucks. Next up, let’s put our perennials in. What I would probably do is the first year I’d get four perennials. Four to six perennials. And I’d probably get three different varieties. This way you can still have structure and symmetry in your garden, but you can still leave enough space for tons of annuals to fill in. But also over the next few years, you can divide these different varieties and really fill up your garden. And this gives you an opportunity to test different varieties as well to see if maybe one performs better than the other. And then I would just repeat this process every single year. Every single year do a few. Yes, less annuals and a few more perennials and evergreens. So, let’s start with my f favorite, the hearty geranium. Start with a little speeart geranium here and here. Have it just sort of like spilling over the path. So pretty. So, this will be our geranium. And then I’m going to give you some npa because I love npa. Persian cat mint. Gorgeous. So, get a couple of those for eight bucks. Geraniums get huge. Nepita can get huge if you get the right variety. So just check the plant tag for how wide they get because you really you want to take up as much space as you can in this first year so that you can really see your vision come to life. Now we could stop there or on either side of the bench you could put some a still bees. Just thinking of great spreaders, things that are easy to divide, things that are beautiful and and and have either constant flower p power or foliage interest or they bloom at different times like the geranium is going to bloom in the spring. Nita is going to bloom all season long and the stillbees are going to bloom a little bit later. Typically the the stillbases I’m going to put here are going to bloom later. These are going to be the purple spires which bloom for us in about July and August. Beautiful. But other than that, then the asilies are just a beautiful wispy ground cover. Now, for this bench, you can wait on this. You can put in, you know, we’ve done a makeshift bench out of just cutting logs on the property and kind of screwing or nailing them together. Or you can just get, you know, try and pick up a cheap or a free bench somewhere. see if you know, maybe you can just bring out certain furniture or have like a beach chair that you put out there just to see what it feels like to have that in your space until you want to invest in that more expensive piece. But Facebook Marketplace is also a great place to go just to see what they have in your area. And for this rose arbor, I would either make it out of branches or things from the from your property like we did, or you can use a ranch panel. You can get those for 22 bucks from Home Depot. just take the ranch panel and kind of attach it, you know, dig it into the ground on one side, dig it into the ground on the other side, and then start to grow annual climbers up it. Things like morning glory would be fantastic. You could grow cucumbers or beans or peas up it, whatever you’d like. Sweet peas would be beautiful as well. But other than that, this is kind of the general idea that we’re going for. And this is going to be the most expensive, just these things here. And I’ll go through the cost of everything at the end. But next up, we’re going to start putting in the seeds. So, I want to do holly hawks all along the sides here. They get really big. They’re reliable. They’re easy to start from seed. They’re beautiful. They attract hummingbirds and butterflies and all kinds of things. A pack of seeds, you can get them from Eden, Eden Brothers for $4.99. So, a little bit more of an expensive seed, but you would definitely have enough to fill your entire garden with Holly Hawks the first year. Filling in this whole area. You could even continue and fill in all the edges of your of your veggie patch as well or the ends of your veggie patch. You could do that. But now let’s add in our perennials from seeds. So the holly hawk is a bianial, but if you plant it in an area, very likely it’s going to selfseed and it’s going to come back yearon year. We’ve had our holly hawk coming back year after year. It’s a beautiful black holly hawk. It’s gorgeous. So now we want to add in some echgonatia. A pack of echgonatia seeds is going to cost you max four or five bucks, but you can get packs for from Fairy Morse for just a couple of bucks. We’re going to go really heavy on the echgonia cuz these seeds are easy to start and they’re beautiful. And this is going to be a very affordable one that’s a butterfly and pollinator magnet. It’s just going to be so fun to see so much growth and color in your garden in the first year. So definitely one. and they divide easily. They spread easily. So, it’s an easy one all around. So, that’s that’s what I would do. Maybe we’ll add one more over here. So, then we have our echania there. That’s one pack of seeds. It would go farther than that, but that’s one pack of seeds. Now, let’s add in some cabbages. Let’s go heavy on the red cabbages. So, we’re going to be doing these as little rosettes that kind of draw down the garden. They are so beautiful. It’s so fun that they’re edible. They get so big. Just such a fun plant. And then we’re going to fill in all the gaps with cosmos and zenas. Easy, easy to start, easy to maintain, cut and come again. You’ll have flowers for the entire season. You can do a succession planting of seeds if you have a really long growing season. So you can start some in the spring, then start some in midsummer, so you can have blooms all season long. So, we’ll just have large little patches of Zenyas, Cosmos, you know, you could do fox gloves, but zenia seeds, you can get zenyas for $1.96 at Walmart. Just filling in all of the blank spaces with your zenyas and cosmos. And you can, you know, if you’re in an area where where your seeds happily grow if you put them in the ground, if you don’t have too many, you know, pests that are going to eat your stuff like we do here, we can’t direct sew or else the slugs will eat everything. But if you are lucky enough to live in an area where you can do that, then you could just sew these and you don’t even have to worry about any seed starter. And so let’s say you have put in a structure here. Maybe you’ve just used some branches. Maybe you’ve used some tall twigs or maybe you’ve used some willow, you know, cutings that you’ve used or maybe someone that you know is growing bamboo. Who knows? But let’s say you’ve got this arch here and we’re growing some morning glory up it. Just start it from seed. Super easy to start from seed. Fabulous. So that’s your beautiful garden right there all situated. So this again, all of this blank space is the wood chip from the chip drop. That’s free. You have cardboard down. Hopefully you’ve gotten that for free. And then this here is either going to be the grass that was there when you moved in or it’s going to be a darker colored mulch. If you wanted to edge this in some way, let’s say with grass, I think you would be okay that first year. Um, if you have a, you know, if you’re able to weed whack along the the lines, but we use the rocks from our property. You could use, you know, go, you know, talk to a local contractor, see if they have any bricks or, you know, broken bricks on site or if they’re getting rid of stuff. You know, again, you could go to like a Habitat for Humanity or just check in your community if they know of anything that you could use for edging for free. We use bigger branches that have fallen down in storms. We use rocks. We’ve used all kinds of things. So then here you’re just now we’re just doing veggies. Let’s say in this first row we’ve got lettuce, dill, kale, beans. So, we’ve got some lettuce, lettuce, kale, some dill, and let’s say you take a couple of branches and you do some beans. Or you could you don’t even have to do pole beans if you don’t want to. Let’s say you don’t have any branches on your property. You can just do you can just do bush beans instead instead of that. But there we go. This is four packs of seeds. That’s all you need there. And all of the veggies are usually they’re like between a dollar and $2. So, we’ll say $2 here. And then in this row, let’s say you’ve got peppers, merry golds, herbs, and onions. So, we’ll do peppers, we’ll do some merry golds, we’ll do some herbs, and we’ll do some onions. Great. So, what’s that? Peppers, merry golds, herbs, onions. Again, four. And then for this last one, let’s do sunflowers. Let’s do some sunflowers. I want to do sunflowers on either side. So, we’ll do some sunflowers. Get nice and tall. Some beautiful height and structure. The birds are going to love those seeds if you leave the seed head up heads up. So, we’ll do some tomatoes. And again, let’s say you don’t want to do tomato cages. You don’t have the resources. Just get a small, you know, determinant tomato. So, it’s just going to stay on the ground. You don’t even have to worry about staking. You don’t have to worry about getting a tomato cage or finding a way to trellis them. And then let’s do you some basil for some companion planting with your tomatoes. There we go. One, two, three, four seeds there. So that’s 12 seeds times two. So al together here, let’s count everything up. We’ve got 24 bucks here. So your veg seeds here are going to be about 24 26 bucks, something like that. Then your boxwoods are going to cost about eight bucks. So you’ve got four of those. So that’s 32. So your box, so for the perennials, eight bucks each. You get six of them. That’s 48 bucks. But again, this is going to give you so many more over time. And then the rest of your seeds for your ornamental garden, you’ve got the holly hawks, you’ve got echgonatia, zenas, cosmos, cabbages, morning glory. Let’s say you can get those between two and four bucks. So you’re looking at like 12 to 16 bucks for those. So altogether that’s 120 bucks to start a garden that’s not just going to look beautiful this year but year on year as you continue to do this. You could spend around a h 100red bucks on your garden just filling it up for the first few years and then slowly allow your garden space to evolve through dividing and propagation. Maybe you could gather your own seeds and start to spread those. But this is a great way of getting started with a beautiful garden from scratch in the first year for not very much money at all. I’d hang out there. All right, I hope you found some helpful tips in this video. If you have any more that you think I missed, please leave those down below. Like this video if you liked it. Subscribe if you’re not already. It really does help us out. And I’ll see you again very soon. Until then, be well, stay curious, and may your garden always bring you home. Bye. [Music]