Another Mess = My 2024 Garden Makeover Project
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- Опубліковано 27 лис 2024
- #gardenmakeover #gardenrenovation #cutflowergarden
Long time, no gardening my friends. Well, actually I have been doing clean up here and there as well as a ton of work on getting my vases ready for sale later this year but there's so little time to edit! On that note, my postings may be a bit irregular this year. It's just not feasible for me to start essentially a new business, the vase collection and keep up with weekly edits. I don't make more than a plant to two a month from YT so it's not possible to hire help for videos. You'll just have to be patient with me, or you can share my channel with gardening friends to help it grow!
but I am here to share this year's big 2024 Garden Makeover project. The last one was the Potager Renovation or Potager 2.0 and there's a playlist of videos so you can watch the whole thing, or skip ahead to see what I got finished in exactly 1 year.
I'm taking you to a very rarely glimpsed part of my property, what we call the back porch though it's really the back side porch but you get the idea. I have never worked on this garden because I had NO IDEA what to do with it. Until this year when a combination of pre ordering WAY too many plants, a shortage of bed space in the gardens that I've spent 5 years perfecting size, shape and placement of plants in and desperation to find somewhere to fit all these plants into coalesced into what will likely be the most uniform, aka formal area of my gardening adventures.
Happy Spring!
Always LOOVE your flower choices and style, can not WAIT to see the roses you've ordered and all the inspo you've collected... and then to see what starts growing. And don't worry, we'll be here excited to watch whatever you post.. whenever you have the time! Glad you're taking care of yourself first! ❤
Thanks Melissa, I appreciate it and hope you're doing well! xo
Love how you show the good, the bad and the ugly…….and of course all the Beautiful! I took a screen shot of the one flower arrangement you showed with burgundy mauve flowers. I have 10 roses coming and only have one place planned out, so I feel for ya!
Looking forward to the vases, the orchard and the roses and your design thought process.
It's really been fun planning this project, hoping to share inspo and design plan Monday! and thanks about the vases, it's been so much work but they are almost there! Now it's my least favorite stuff, website redesign so it can be shopped!
This video made me feel so much better about myself. I thought I was the only one that had an area I've hidden with saved nursery pots, extra hoses, plant supports, etc. It's so helpful to see your planning process from the beginning. Can't wait to see you work your magic in a new area. Also looking forward to seeing your beautiful front garden in bloom again (I look forward to seeing yours almost as much as my own)!
I think every garden needs a few places to stash those things! I'm not the only one bummed out by the "perfect" gardens on UA-cam and the reality is that a working garden needs work "stuff"! We're doing some weeding to prep for Spring mulch but everything is waking up, it should be a beautiful Spring! xo
Living in the North Florida Gulf Coast I researched a way to make peonies thrive here. So last winter I gave them a weekly ice bath to mimic genuine winter. It actually worked! I have kept them in pots so I can move them around to see where they want to be. This fall I will be planting them into their permanent in ground positions.
I'm so glad to hear this is working, I know someone on Garden.org in So Cal who also did this with great success with many herbaceous varieties. I'd love to hear what blooms for you with this method! And yes, I'm not a super classic designer but I love my storybook slate roof. They last forever as long as you have someone to work on them but if we ever have to replace, we've bookmarked that same look in newer materials.
So good to see you again! I hope you are feeling great and are recovering nicely. I am so excited for your next project and can’t wait to see the process unfold.
I am great healthwise and feeling incredibly good! This is going to be a fun one, a lot of work of course but the end result should be 😻
I love your slate roof! We live in Florida at the edge of the state forest and are having a similar looking roof, not slate but an interesting looking shingle. It’s the GAF Woodland series, very storybook in style.
Hey Sullivan! Don’t mind the mess :) I’d love it if you talked more about Native Keystone Plants (versus just regular native plants, keystones help uphold 96% of ecosystems and only 14% of native plants are keystone plants!). I noticed you have some in your garden, it’s be lovely if you talked about them :)
Hi, this is so interesting to hear. I don't know that I'm the best one to speak to the Keystone plants, I don't know much about that category. I choose plants for aesthetic and pollinator/conditions always which means many natives but I'm clearly not a natives only gardener. Can you DM me on Insta? Maybe we can collab on a more informative video? @sullivan_owen